‘Lanner, Strauss and their waltzes dominate everything,’ wrote Chopin from Vienna in 1830. Not so much these days. If Johann Strauss I is a relative rarity on concert programmes beyond the Radetzky March, his colleague and eventual rival Joseph Lanner seems pretty much limited to occasional appearances in the Vienna New Year’s Day concert.

So this debut disc from the Lanner Quartet – four string players from the Budapest Festival Orchestra – is especially welcome. The coffehouse-ready scoring for two violins, viola and bass is a conscious attempt to get back to the domestic roots of the Viennese dance tradition; no massed Vienna Philharmonic strings here. And the playing is idiomatic and lively, with a hint of a bite: pretty much perfect if you enjoy your Viennese sweetness offset by a dash of Hungarian spice.

The problem is the programme – just four pieces by Lanner himself, and four by Schubert, including transcriptions of the F minor Moment musical and ‘An die Musik’, gracefully sung by the soprano Erika Miklósa, who does nothing else on the disc. One rarity, Lanner’s genial Two Movements for string quartet, would probably be better served by a conventional quartet, for all of bass player Attila Martos’s flair on what is clearly intended as a cello part.

Perhaps the intention was to sell Lanner on the back of Schubert, but this feels like a missed opportunity (especially since collectors are already likely to have Die Werber). The players clearly love this music, and Lanner deserves their advocacy. At a measly 58'41", this disc could have offered a lot more.