In January 1878, a musical-theatrical journal in St. Petersburg published a beguiling little piano piece by Tchaikovsky titled, in French, “Janvier: Au coin du feu” (“January: By the Fireside”). It was the first of 12 pieces the journal commissioned from Tchaikovsky, one for each month of the year, works aimed at the insatiable amateur piano market. The complete suite, curiously called “The Seasons,” was eventually published in its entirety. These charming, inventive works—the pensive “June,” the waltzing “December”—are not heard often in the concert hall. That the impressive young Siberian-born pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, a 2012 laureate of the Honens Prize, loves this suite comes through in his elegant playing on this welcome recording, which includes Tchaikovsky’s lovely “Six Morceaux.”