Two fascinating and quite different discs of music by the two Panufniks, father and daughter. ‘Dreamscape’ is a beautifully conceived collection of songs and chamber music. It begins with Panufnik senior’s gorgeous, touching ‘Love Song’, in the version for piano and voice, a decidedly hard act to follow, but Roxanna Panufnik’s note points to the innate similarities between her musical instincts and those of her father, in terms of both harmony and love of Elizabethan texts. Certainly her two Shakespeare settings really seem all of a piece with his work, an interesting phenomenon given her conscious attempt for so many years to keep as far from his style as possible (again, as she mentions in the notes). Her Herbert setting, ‘Virtue’, is similarly accomplished but I initially thought that Wordsworth (in ‘That mighty heart’) might have been a miscalculated choice of poet. I was wrong – the stately tread of the evocation of London is suddenly and beautifully elevated by the melisma on ‘air’ and the conclusion of the song floats to rest on that same air. Modlitwa is particularly interesting, being a joint composition, the first verse of this prayer in the Polish language composed by Roxanna to match her father’s setting of the second, and there is no sense of stylistic dissonance at all.

I well remember Andrzej’s ethereal Dreamscape in the vocal version performed by Meriel and Peter Dickinson but like Roxanna, and, it seems, her mother, I find the instrumental version as recorded here much preferable. The disc ends with two piano trios, Around Three Corners by Roxanna, and Andrzej’s Op 1 Trio. The former is enigmatic, the latter heart on sleeve; in fact, it’s a work of utterly arresting beauty that should be standard repertoire. Performances throughout are excellent.

The BIS recording brings together some outstanding piano music by Panufnik senior, stunningly performed by Clare Hammond, and recent work by his daughter as well a couple of ‘retrospective collaborations’, including a solo piano version of the Modlitwa heard on the Signum disc. Andrzej’s dazzling skill and imagination is immediately apparent in the wonderful Twelve Miniature Studies (1947, rev 1955/64) that opens the recital. Why this 20-minute set, full of invention, beauty and excitement, is not in the repertoire of more pianists is a mystery.

Hommage à Chopin is an arrangement by Roxanna of three of Andrzej’s five vocalises of that name for solo piano, and they are truly haunting, as is the transcription of Modlitwa. The late Pentasonata is relatively well known but a performance as vivacious and, at the same time, as attentive to detail as Hammond’s makes one listen to it as though for the first time – BIS’s superb production also plays its part in this. Reflections, from 1968, is grittier but the musical and philosophical preoccupations are essentially the same, and Hammond is as convincing in the earlier style as in the later. Between these two works come Roxanna’s Second Home and Glo. The way Hammond plays the opening repeated notes of Second Home would alone be worth the price of the disc.