At the relatively tender age of 27, Benjamin Wallfisch has already begun to make his mark. Being a member of a multi-talented musical family hasn't deterred him from exploring a wide range of compositional possibilities, and this disc reveals a language securely based in a coherent response to some of the most stimulating aspects of the contemporary scene - serious, popular, ethnic.

There's an attractive stylistic mix evoking Scandinavia (Lindberg, Saariaho) and America - Adams, even Golijov (the finale of Spectra): and that's apart from various British and continental associations. But Wallfisch has the knack of making his sources sound persuasive, even when they are not especially personal. Very rarely does the music lose direction - the second movement of the quartet is a rare example. More importantly still, he has a real talent for using instruments to maximum effect. The one let-down is Impulse: two pianos and two marimbas can scarcely avoid sinking into the mud.

For Wallfisch at his best, I'd nominate the Clarinet Concertino and the 2006 BBC Proms piece Escape Velocity; although avant-gardists will point to a degree of rhythmic predictability, neither work becomes monotonous or merely tricksy. There's plenty here to promise longer-lasting interest: and everything is performed and recorded with such liveliness and clarity that I can't imagine even the most dedicated anti-modernist not being won over.