By turns rambunctious and soulful, this nine-movement suite is raucous and heartfelt.
The second mandala shifted scale at the end, with Ernest Bloch's complete four-movement Suite No. 1 for Solo Violin.
Mr. Andsnes, now in a black sweater, introduced the first work, "In the Mists," a four-movement suite by Janacek.
The exception is Szymanowski's "Masques," a three-movement suite, completed in 1916 when this Polish composer was living in Paris.
The last half of the album is a 22-minute, four-movement suite about the United States, a dark love letter of sorts to the country.
Janacek's six-movement suite, one of his earliest surviving instrumental works, represents "Janacek before he was Janacek," as the musicologist Michael Beckerman said in preliminary remarks.
As a companion piece, the ensemble played John Adams's "American Standard" (1973), a satirical three-movement suite from Mr. Adams's early Minimalist years.
Though he mischievously tucked a quotation from the "Marseillaise" into the opening Allegro, the "Carnival Jest From Vienna" is a straightforward five-movement suite.
In Villa-Lobos's eight-movement suite for solo piano that opened the program, "A Prole do Bebê" ("The Baby's Family") No. 1, the balance tips decidedly toward Europe.
And in George Crumb's "Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusick," a nine-movement suite for amplified piano, Monk's theme is examined through many prisms.
Einojuhani Rautavaara's Cantus Arcticus featured the composer's own recordings of Finnish marsh and sea birds that become the concertante element in his three-movement suite.
