This is really delightful stuff. The Symphonic Prayer and Magna mater both contrast gentle chorale textures with inventive writing for brass and percussion, and come off sounding somewhat like a harmonically kinder, gentler, but no less energetic Honegger. Prokofiev serves as the model for the nose-thumbing but inventive Second Piano Concerto, whose obstinately catchy principal motif gets repeated what sounds like several thousand times--but always with such wit and point that it never becomes annoying (unless of course you have no sense of humor and dislike musical jokes). Its flashy 17 minutes breezes by in (subjectively speaking) a fraction of the time, and Noriko Ogawa dispatches the fun-filled piano part with unconcealed glee.
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