Although horns made appearances earlier – in the hunting scenes of 17th-century opera, for example – it is usually accepted that Mozart’s works define the repertoire. On this release we’re given a different view, and treated to mid-18th-century concertos from Christoph Förster and Johann Baptist Georg Neruda, along with Georg Philipp Telemann and Joseph Haydn, and a chamber arrangement of Leopold Mozart’s Sinfonia da Camera. We witness the horn’s transition from a stand-in for the hunt to a genuine solo voice.

While such repertoire might lend itself to period instruments and historically informed performance, the recital here is essentially contemporary. Alec Frank-Gemmill is familiar with historical performance and has previously...