The subtitle is misleading, as the music by Mozart and Michael Haydn here was all composed for Salzburg Cathedral and Joseph Haydn’s early Te Deum for Eisenstadt. Nevertheless, ‘Resurrexi!’ is an enticing opportunity to hear some rarely played music in eager and engaging performances.

The Mass, K258, from the mid-1770s takes its name from one Friedrich Franz Joseph Graf von Spaur, for whose priestly ordination it may have been composed. If it lacks the melodic richness of later church works such as the Coronation Mass, K317, it dispatches the text neatly and smartly, all six sections lasting little over quarter of an hour in total, thereby meeting the archiepiscopal requirement for brevity. The Regina coeli is the 1779 setting that borrows its repeated ‘alleluias’ from you-know-where, while the church sonata is a sweetly insinuating piece from 1776, scored only for violins, bass and organ.

Michael Haydn’s gradual Victimae paschali laudes from the early 1780s is set in the same brisk, flowing Neapolitan style as Mozart’s Mass, its generally cheerful demeanour betraying no unease at the suffering and sacrifice evoked by the text. His big brother’s Te Deum is not the famous work from 1800 composed for the Empress Marie Therese but comes from almost 40 years earlier. It naturally doesn’t boast the individuality and continent-conquering confidence of the later setting but, again, passes by amiably enough, with a minor-key central section and some slightly stiff counterpoint to close.

Throughout, the impeccably drilled Keble choir and the period players of the Instruments of Time and Truth respond to Paul Brough’s enthusiastic direction, although the resonant space of William Butterfield’s Gothic Revival chapel blurs some of the detail in the busier music. There is a lot of chant (18 minutes of it) separating the individual components of the programme, with audible changes of acoustic and some noise from the traffic passing by on Parks Road. Nevertheless, in terms of both repertoire and performance, this is an immensely enjoyable recording.