More fun to play than to listen to is one of the hoariest clichés about symphonic wind band music. Whether or not you feel this disc exemplifies it, for those who like this kind of thing the world's No 1 exhibitionist trombonist and his Swedish players are superb advocates. Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue and Riffs at least seems to have stood the test of time (though why Antheil's even funkier Jazz Symphony hasn't taken its place alongside it I don't quite know). Otherwise the disc is strictly for aficionados of performance rather than composition.

Even then for most non-players, I suspect the delights of a trombonist simultaneously singing and playing are about as artistically rewarding as Dr Johnson's dancing dog. Still, if it has to be done, Øystein Baadsvik's eight-minute Fnugg Blue is as entertaining a way as any, and Christian Lindberg one of the few exponents in the world one would want to hear performing it. Similarly, as a cabaret act at the end of a schnapps-fuelled summer school, Frederik Högberg's Trolltuba (a whimsical miniature melodrama on the Billy Goats Gruff story) might just be tolerable.

Boris Diev's Tuba Concerto is sub-Hindemithian Gebrauchsmusik, with much cribbing from Shostakovich's Cello Sonata. Not surprisingly there is more to chew on in Turnage's A Quick Blast, while Daniel Nelson's Metallëphônic Remix slips down and out again easily, if not quite rapidly enough. Recordings are well up to BIS's usual high standards.