After the lukewarm impression made by some recent releases of York Bowen's music from Hyperion and Chandos, it might seem like faint praise to describe this latest collection as the most rewarding of Bowen's music I've yet heard. But there's no doubt that as a widely admired pianist himself, Bowen felt totally at home in the world of chamber music, and wrote for piano and strings with an understanding and muscular freedom never revealed in his orchestral music. Superb performances of the three piano trios - the earliest of them, a single movement in D minor from 1900, left unfinished and only now turned into a performable work by the Gould Trio themselves – form the backbone of the disc, with the hugely impressive, fiercely coherent E minor Trio from 1946, providing its natural climax. The Clarinet Sonata and a curious Phantasy Quintet for bass clarinet and string quartet make up the rest of the disc. Like the piano trios they remain firmly anchored in Brahmsian late romanticism – the F minor sonata, from 1943, could pass as a sibling to Brahms's own clarinet sonata in the same key, composed half a century earlier.