A flawless song list comprising Richard Rodney Bennett originals plus some of his favourite standards, stunning arrangements by conductor Scott Dunn, plus the unfailingly mellifluous vocals of Claire Martin, combine to produce an extraordinarily beautiful tribute to Bennett which marks the tenth anniversary of his death.

Whether it's the majestic sound of the RPO strings in the Bennett/Siegel opener ’I Watch You Sleep’ – an utterly gorgeous song in the hands of Bennett's great friends and erstwhile musical partners Martin and Dunn which, aside from Shirley Horn's exquisite version on her 1988 trio album, Softly, has been covered remarkably infrequently – the iridescent vibraphone which introduces a deluxe arrangement of Vernon Duke's ‘Autumn in New York’ with its vivid imagery of “glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel”; the clarion call of Ryan Quigley's flugel in ‘Round About’ (another overlooked gem from the team of Duke and lyricist Ogden Nash which seems to hover atmospherically in the air); or the adroit splicing together of a brace of Harold Arlen/Leo Robin songs, ‘For Ev’ry Man There's a Woman/It Was Written In The Stars’, penned for the 1948 US film noir Casbah, the 16-track album presents an incredibly touching statement from the heart. Whether navigating through the elegiac orchestral textures of ‘I Never Went Away’ or intimate duo and trio versions of ‘I Wonder What Became Of Me’ and ‘I Wish I’d Met You’, Martin's enormous gifts as a storyteller have never sounded more potent.