Chihara: Concerto-Fantasy for Piano & Orchestra

The music of Paul Chihara, who spent part of his childhood in an internment camp in Idaho, takes Asian-Western dichotomies as points of departure, but that statement is too simple for all the variety of ways the combination can play out. Both ingenious and richly evocative and beautifully and quietly played besides, this is a wonderful release. (Naxos)