Name five internationally famous bassoonists. Archie Camden, Gwydion Brooke and, er, that’s it. Except I think we shall soon be adding the name of Karen Geoghegan to the roll call. Invited to the finals of the BBC TV series Classical Star, I was struck by the musicality, poise, technique and quiet charm of this 19-year-old student (still at the Royal Academy of Music) but feared for her chances of winning the first prize of a recording contract. Bassoon discs have never ticked the box of your average record company accountant.

Well, Ms Geoghegan did not win the competition but canny Chandos asked her to make a recording the very next day. Let me just say it’s terrific – and her performances of the Hummel and Weber works are far superior to those of the lumbering Valeri Popov on the same label. The lyrical movements have an engaging tenderness and are played with great maturity, while the virtuoso passages are tossed off with style and wit (though George Zuckerman on an old Vox recording finds a touch more jaunty nonchalance).

The bonuses are fine versions of Berwald’s Konzertstück – its Andante is, unexpectedly, a set of variations on the verse part of “Home, sweet home” – and the orchestral premiere of the Introduction and (technically vertiginous) Polonaise by Carl Jacobi (1791-1852), perhaps the greatest bassoon virtuoso of the 19th century. Chandos have a real find on their hands with Karen Geoghegan.