The idea of a series of discs devoted to the music of Toshio Hosokawa might seem daunting – you can have too much of pastel colours and rather arch, wispily descriptive orchestral writing – but the three concertos that launch the series make an attractive package.

Both the 2010 horn concerto, Moment of Blossoming, and Lotus Under Moonlight, the 2006 work for piano and orchestra, belong to a collection of works inspired by the idea of blossoming. They're beautifully crafted and carefully paced, full of shifting, slipping textures; some of the solo horn writing has an almost romantic grandeur about it, though the piano writing in Lotus seems much more undistinguished and generic. Crucially, though, both works lack fibre; the climaxes seem contrived and Hosokawa's music hardly seems to have any of the muscularity it might have acquired from his teacher Isang Yun. Chant, for cello and orchestra, is more convincing; it could be described as Hosokawa's Protecting Veil, though it lacks the melodic dimension of Tavener's piece. What is impressive, though, is the quality of the performances under Jun Märkl.