The titular ‘glitterati’ are a disparate group of musicians linked only by the fact that they travelled and worked away from their home countries. Carl Friedrich Abel is perhaps the best known: he founded a famous series of concerts with JC Bach in London, where he met and influenced the eight-year-old Mozart, and reminiscences of the younger composer’s style are audible in a pair of symphonies (published in 1778) that are sustained and lyrical, if still relying on gesture rather than singing melody for their primary material. The same might be said for an example by Johann Friedrich Reichardt, a Prussian who toured widely throughout Europe.

The disc opens, though, with a viola concerto by Carl Friedrich Zelter, two years younger than Mozart and a staunch champion of the Bach revival of the 19th century. This concerto bears trademarks of the Baroque in its clipped dotted rhythms but opens out into something more sustained with the entry of Simon Murphy’s viola – rich-toned but with a hint of grain, blooming into plaintive sweetness as his left hand inches up the fingerboard.

Mozart’s Figaro became a vehicle for the London soprano Nancy Storace, who created the role of Susanna in Vienna, and returned to London to star in a series of operas by her brother Stephen. Gudrun Sidonie Otto rather slides between notes but is equal to the sostenuto lines of Mozart’s Garden aria and the coloratura of Stephen’s ‘Domestic peace’, along with a cut-down encore version of Paisiello’s ‘Nel cor più non mi sento’.

‘Jet Set!’ is a pleasing, varied programme, played finely by The New Dutch Academy, if without the last ounce of verve that characterises the playing of the elite period-instrument ensembles. The two Abel symphonies, though – plus Murphy’s violism in the concerto – are particular highlights.