WILDER  Pas Seul. Suite for Piano V. Piano Series. Castle Promenade. A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra: Mort the Pianoforte. Romantic Waltz. Jolly Waltz. Jazz Waltz for a Friend. Theme Number Four. Her First Party Dress. Suite for Piano VI. Lullaby for a Lady. Why? The Walkaway. Inner Circle. Homework, Lil Darlin’ Tempo. Where Are All The Good Companions?. Blackberry Winter • John Noel Roberts (pn) • ALBANY 1886 (61:35)  Pas Seul is the second disc from Albany Records featuring John Noel Roberts performing solo piano works by American composer Alec Wilder. The first release, Alec Wilder: Music for Piano (TROY 1294), was recorded in 2010, and issued the following year. Pas Seul (also the title of the opening work on this recording) focuses on unpublished works that Wilder composed for friends. Wilder was a brilliant popular songwriter, and that aspect of his craft is ever present in the featured music, as are jazz and blues. But Wilder was also a student, admirer, and composer of concert music. Those elements, too, inform the solo piano pieces. In my interview with Roberts, the pianist notes the influence of Bach and counterpoint, and French composers Debussy, Fauré, Poulenc, and Ravel (I hear the presence of Satie as well). Like his fellow American composers George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein (and in a very different way, Charles Ives), Wilder mastered the art of combining seemingly disparate elements into a personal, seamless, and convincing mode of expression. These are lovely, intimate works that gifts. John Noel Robert performs the Wilder pieces with the utmost sensitivity. It’s clear both from these performances and my interview with Roberts that performing the music of Alec Wilder is a labor of love for him. The booklet includes several Wilder quotes, Jean Elizabeth Roberts’s analysis of Wilder’s approach to composition, and John Noel Roberts’s commentary. This is a charming and beguiling disc. Recommended.