Pianist Marcos Ariel goes solo on this collection of originals, all dedicated to flowers that are as pretty and fragrant as his playing. There’s an elegant darkness to the Mozartian “Orchid” and “Calla Lily” with Chopinesque nocturnes with his classy left hand on “Chrysanthemum, and an impressionistic softness to “Lantana”. His use of space and time is quite judicial during the festive dance of “Passionflower” and his fingers create a parlor intimacy on the sonata of “Bougainvillea”. Rubenstein meets Evans.