Immediately, I realized this was going to be something special. Stillness of posture. A concentrated attitude to the work, itself, and an inward respect for Bach’s fluency of counterpoint writing.

Maiko Mori performed Schnittke’s Improvisation and Fugue with brilliant facility and a strong sense of the music’s purpose. The otherworldliness of Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch similarly seemed to suit Mori’s musical temperament.

Maiko Mori is a first-rate chamber player, her pianism, economically pedalled, alert to every slur and dot. She provides her colleagues with a quasi-orchestral backing, unfolding and ‘conducting’ textures with focussed clarity...