This disc positively sparkles! With such intelligent and innovative programming, it is the ideal introduction to Hindemith’s organ music. Since there is insufficient solo organ music to fill a complete disc, the solution is to add Kammermusik No 7, which is effectively the first organ concerto (albeit with an ensemble of wind instruments and lower strings).

The novelty on this disc is the premiere recording of Zwei Stücke. Dating from August 1918 (when Hindemith was still in military uniform), these pieces straddle the dying embers of late Romanticism and the leaner, more contrapuntal aridity of the 1920s. Their shapeliness and colourfulness are striking and worthy of repeated hearings. There is plenty of registrational variety, too, in Daniel Hyde’s nicely judged performances of the three solo sonatas. The seemingly modest new two-manual Swiss Kuhn organ installed in Jesus College, Cambridge, provides plenty of punch and a wide dynamic range. I would have liked a little more definition in some of the melodic lines, for example the 4ft pitch solo in the pedals in the jolly third movement of the Third Sonata.

Hindemith’s impish characteristics are more to the fore in the wind quintet Kleine Kammermusik. This multifaceted work is a model for all would-be composers for this combination. Nicholas Daniel’s oboe-playing is an especial delight, and the third-movement waltz and folky finale are brought off to perfection.

The chapel acoustic is ideal for all these pieces, which are recorded with maximum fidelity. This is a thoroughly recommendable disc.