The IITTI Music Festival is one of those Finnish summer events that sounds so idyllic on a faraway winter’s night. Founded in 2003, it resurrects a lapsed gathering originally instigated in the village of Iitti before the First World War, right down to its climactic event – the hauling of a piano by local volunteers to the top of the nearby hill for a midnight open-air concert. Now just how Nordic is that?

Though this all-Mozart concert from 2009, given by the festival’s sprightly orchestra under that year’s guest artist Philippe Entremont, presumably took place in the local wooden church, the summer-night atmosphere is amply suggested by its first piece, the cheery Divertimento that Mozart gave his sister as a nameday present, and which is full of the playful charm of his teenage years. Entremont combines this with shapely string phrasing and sure pacing, and although the Concerto for Two Pianos – in which he is joined by the Festival’s artistic director Laura Mikkola – gets a slightly more earthbound reading, the ability to find just the right tempo resurfaces in Symphony No 40, a work whose finale, especially, has sometimes suffered from momentum-sapping heavy-handedness. Entremont’s touch is unfailing, however, finding the perfect balance between the work’s tragic weight and what Schumann called its “Grecian lightness”.

The disc is essentially a memento of a particular event, of course, and the Finnish Radio recording is not what you would expect from a more carefully made studio account. The orchestral sound lacks a little in bloom, the oboes are a touch distant (rather a shame in the coquettish solo in the Rondo of the Divertimento), some piano notes don’t sound and there are occasional ensemble untidinesses and audience noises (though, oddly, no applause). But for Mozart-playing that is both fresh and informed by experience, this is well worth dropping in on.