Consider My American Story: North a love song to Trifonov’s adopted home. Hard to hear in it anything but delighted infatuation with a world far removed from the pianist’s Russian birthplace. Anchored by two concertos, it sugars classical choices with nuggets of jazz, Big Band-era Swing and film music that span much of the quondam ‘American Century’.

The lure for many will be Gershwin’s Concerto in F. Described by Trifonov as “like a chase scene in a black-and-white movie through the dark streets of Chicago”, he treats it like a chiaroscuro soundtrack to urban drama and nocturnal poetry. There’s an obvious relish, shared by Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Philadelphia Orchestra, to his playing in the outer movements, the central Adagio imbued with an exhausted tipsiness that wouldn’t sound out of place in a film noir.

The other concerto, a muscular triptych composed for Trifonov and heard here for the first time on disc in a live recording from Philadelphia’s Marian Anderson Hall, belongs to Mason Bates. A veritable potpourri of ideas and attitudes that thread through this two-disc set...