When pianist Steven Osborne offers an encore it tends to be up close and personal. 'Introspection is my natural territory', he writes of his new album, OK by me: A life in encores, consisting mostly of distinctive easy listeners—anything from Bach and Schumann to Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell—that have distinguished his musical postscripts. The result is more than just a compendium. Osborne's candid sleeve notes lend autobiographical context to the eclectic playlist: childhood memories of his mother's jewellery box (Liadov's A musical snuffbox); life at St Mary's Music School (fellow pupil James Clapperton's atmospheric Haar and Maxwell Davies' soulful Farewell to Stromness); the later shared impulse of improvisatioon (on Jarrett and Michael Tippett); a cartoonesque Wagner channelled through Doucet's irreverent Isoldina; the love of jazz unleashed in Gershwin's Three Preludes. Osborne's artistry is captivating throughout, not least in his own lyrically ruminative title track, OK by me.