Winter & Winter’s releases are easily the most handsomely-packaged CDs around, but you’ll often look in vain, as here, for any information about the music or musicians. You have to visit the website for that, which is always a pain, and may find yourself none the wiser even then. Yasuda describes this CD as his imaginary film – ‘a fictitious soundtrack’ – explaining that the titles ‘merely give hints’ about the action.

Beautifully recorded and performed, though not especially memorable, the music is essentially Romantic, with passages of harsh scoring and pan/poly-tonality to give a modernist edge. Reasonably enough, there are several nods to the great Tõru Takemitsu and a rather surprising (and possibly unintentional) one to Karl Jenkins in the opening section of Tango.

The piano concerto, Imaginary Films, is the most substantial work, and this is its first recording. The slow second movement, ‘A Black White Night’, is particularly effective. Epitaph contains some excellent use of the Basel strings. The album ends with a subtle coup de theatre when the languorous title track simply tails off.