This deft young ensemble, named after two composers, father Lennox and his son Michael, was set up to explore 20th- and 21st-century British chamber repertoire. This disc opens with Michael Berkeley's crisp, incisive and high-spirited Clarion Gall and Gallop (2013), written specially for this mixed ensemble (string quintet plus clarinet, bassoon and horn). Blue Medusa (2002) by John Casken celebrates the tonal possibilities of the bassoon by mixing myth and nature, Gorgon and vicious-tailed jellyfish. Howard Ferguson's Octet (1933) and Charles Wood's Septet (1889), both rewarding works from another era, merit the proper attention they are given on this imaginative disc.

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