The title is deliberately provocative and tongue-in-cheek, in this context at least. We can raise a wry smile that ‘she composes like a man’ was ever seen to be a serious observation by a music critic, safe in the knowledge that it was applied decades ago to the British composer Ethel Smyth.

Except, of course, the past is never as far away as we’d like, and even in the 21st century, female composers and musicians are being told to be more like men. (Look up, for instance, organist Anna Lapwood’s #Playlikeagirl campaign.) And still, today, more brass players are men than women, so this album from Tine Thing Helseth’s all-female brass ensemble blazes a trail.

And how joyfully it blazes too, in this colourful program of short works by women, arranged by Jarle Storlokken and (in one instance) Sebastian Haukas, and played with a gorgeous blend and sense of enjoyment throughout. It takes us from Maria Theresia von Paradis in the late 18th century to Sally Beamish in the 21st, with buoyant Bacewicz, lyrical Lili Boulanger and mellow Florence Price. The bittersweet serenade of Fanny Mendelssohn’s