To suggest that Haydn’s Hornsignal Symphony is a concerto for four horns is perhaps a liberty too far but who really cares in a programme which sets out to promote the delights of this visceral, animated combination? The Haydn, as it happens, is the least convincing performance here. Sinfonia Varsovia are not the most refined of classical executants by today’s exacting standards and the horns seem overbearing in what is just one element of nature’s joys in the symphony. Haydn’s radiant flute-writing is relegated to a Papageno-like echo in the last movement.

The problem elsewhere is that none of this repertoire, apart from the Schumann, really does this unusual idiom any favours. The Telemann Suite is reworked to inhabit extra horn filigree – and it sounds well enough even with such a lifelessly uncharacterised accompaniment – but the brief Handel work is a non-starter for showing off the impressive textures of four bristling horns. A disc of proper arrangements, not halfway-house revisions, would have shown off the American Horn Quartet’s true wares.

Schumann’s sui generis Konzertstück masterpiece has received some classic readings in recent years, notably Christian Thielemann with the Philharmonia. Integration between horns and orchestra is always a crucial element. It doesn’t quite happen here (the recorded sound lacks elegance) but the orchestra’s lyrical inclinations imbue the work with something of the old world, as the gleaming American Horn Quartet perform their high jinks. A game reading but not an especially cultivated one.