This second instalment of Holmboe (190996) quartets by fellow Danes the Nightingale Quartet is a joy – lush, romantic playing, but equally clean and spacious. The works themselves owe a debt to both Bartók and Shostakovich, and to the folksongs of Holmboe’s homeland, which are woven throughout.

In an increasingly mad world, there is much to be said for the sanity of Holmboe’s music...new, original interpretations of one of Denmark’s hidden gems, on which they are casting much-deserved light.

The Nightingale are expert foragers and guides throughout, their warm and expansive tone honouring the work of a man who paid off early debts to Bartok and Shostakovich to arrive at his own singular space.