Usually performed singly they were given a programme to themselves this week by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in one of its Edinburgh rush-hour concerts, with the gifted principal cellist David Watkin as conductor.

Whole Haydn programmes being among life's rarities, it was good to find this one in such exuberant and able hands. The music brimmed with picturesque solos intended to display the versatility of Haydn's original Esterhazy players, whose assistant director he had recently become at the age of 28. These resourceful touches were imaginatively recaptured by the instrumentalists' modern Scottish equivalents, particularly the solo flute but also at special moments the bassoon and double bass.