It was not too grievous a loss to music when in the 1760s Leopold Mozart decided to give up composition in favour of nurturing ‘the miracle that God caused to be born in Salzburg’. One of his last works is the symphony called here the New Lambach, which for a time was suspected – oddly, it now seems – of being Wolfgang’s work. It’s a pleasant piece, rather old fashioned in style, and it shows what Leopold could do when he was taking composition seriously – there’s an energetic and well-argued first movement, an Andante of some charm and grace, a minuet and a spirited finale.

When he was taking it less seriously, he wrote programmatic pieces like those on the rest of this disc. It’s quite good fun listening to horn calls, at least for a while, on four natural horns in the Sinfonia da caccia, and to hear them trilling away at the top of their compass in the trio of the minuet; and it’s possible that in Bauernhochzeit some few people may relish the bagpipes and the noisome hurdy-gurdy in the ‘Peasant Wedding’, along with the whistles and the shouts. But the actual musical invention in these two pieces is slender indeed, with minimal variety in the harmony, four-square phraseology and much repetition.

It’s rather better in the Sinfonia burlesca, which isn’t really a symphony but a chamber work for violas, cellos, double bass, bassoon and continuo, with some quite attractive echo effects. Michi Gaigg and the Orfeo Baroque Orchestra do, however, make the very best of their opportunities, with some lively, graceful and stylish playing on period instruments.