Currently a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Yuko Uchiyama sets out her undoubted solo credentials in the present recital. An unlikely though not untenable sequence of works begins with the bravura display of Franz Waxman’s Carmen Fantasia – in which Uchiyama rightly underlines the melodic impulse that lies behind the pyrotechnics. A product of the Second World War, Aaron Copland’s Violin Sonata is recognisably from the same period that saw the creation of his folk-inspired ballets – a brief yet lyrical Lento being enclosed by movements of unhurried motion and melodic warmth.

Remembered primarily as orchestrator of choice for countless Broadway shows, Robert Russell Bennett wrote his concert works purely for his own and for others’ pleasure – A Song Sonata being no exception. Its five movements are symmetrically arranged so that the pathos at its centre is framed by a pair of scherzos that are respectively incisive and energetic. Uchiyama has the measure of its unforced tonal language, as she does with the more impersonal though engaging demeanour of William Bolcom’s early Sonatina. Clear if rather airless sound, together with succinct but informative notes, round out an enjoyable and recommendable disc.