Delightful repertoire by Haydn for the English market in the 1780s, brightly sung with period instruments

Anglicised Haydn? Worry not if the ballad on the first track seems a travesty, the finale of Haydn's Symphony No 74 not performed allegro assai, as marked but slowed to a pastoral andante, to pastoral words. You've probably guessed this disc is largely about adaptations and changes in character - to entertain.

Kunstlieder they are not, and neither were they intended to be. Cafe Mozart pitch them at exactly the right emotional level, rendering bubbling melodic lines charmingly and gleefully, and never attempting to make the music weightier than it is...A late 18th-century evening at the piano might have transferred awkwardly to disc, but McCulloch's programming is impeccably planned to amuse and divert.