Don’t judge Pastoral Fables by its name. The album of arrangements for cor anglais and piano should be taken more seriously than the landscape in its cover; goats, shrubs, and all. Neal Peres Da Costa’s Viennese-action grand piano is remarkably light – so much so that Alexandre Oguey’s cor anglais sounds intense in full stride.

The cor anglais is certainly an instrument that shies away from the limelight; it is a delight to hear it brought into its own, and there’s scarcely a finer player to do the instrument justice. The opening Beethoven Sonata in F, Op. 17 is regally performed – perhaps reminiscent of its origins as a work for horn – and feels...