The title recalls the scene in The Simpsons where Lisa tells a supercilious jazz club punter, “Listen to the notes he’s not playing!” and the punter replies, “I can do that at home.”

Eyolf Dale’s latest release, his seventh for Dave Stapleton’s Edition label, is not so easily ignored, combining as it does his regular trio with the assembled might of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. It’s an impressive feat: this isn’t simply a case of adding texture to the trio’s Nordic piano sound, but of fully integrating the trio into the orchestra.

Opening track ‘The Wayfarer’ convincingly explores the ensemble’s potential, sometimes with the various sections in dialogue with the trio, sometimes with the individual trio elements embedded within the luxurious textures. To these inexpert ears the orchestral voice fits comfortably within the 20th century continuum of populist classics, from Sibelius and Vaughan Williams to Copland and onwards to Hollywood writers such as John Williams.

Combined with Dale’s accessible compositional sensibility and the aforementioned Nordic piano trio style, the results are very approachable: the mood predominantly sedate and expansive, though 'Behind The Curtains' picks up the pace for a sprightly excursion that sounds at first a bit like an outré Ahmad Jamal trio before the strings and woodwinds kick in. The question for the listener to decide is whether the orchestra enhances the impact of the trio, or subsumes it into an overfamiliar palette of conventional colours.