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It is an excellent piece, this K16, as we heard last night when the 19-strong, stage-filling Classical Ensemble (the period-instrument pit band of the above opera company) played it under founder-conductor Ian Page.

The music breezes with young life. A recurrent juicy dissonance marks out the moody slow move-ment. The bassoonist proved the looseness of his fingers in the hunting finale. Narrator Samuel West recounted a lovely anecdote. His amusing contribution made the entertainment a stage work.

Otherwise, it was a concert of music from the time of the Mozart family's visit here in 1764-5 with Canadian soprano Gillian Keith singing arias by Arne, JC Bach and the lad himself. Sometimes, low down, the orchestra drowned her but she sang with easy brilliance, thrilling in Mozart's Per pieta with the silky tone of her top notes.

It was her debut with the period instrument company that had never played the Wigmore before. The evening was full of auspicious beginnings.

The Classical Opera Company performs JC Bach's Adriano in Siria with soloist Gillian Keith on 2 May at St John's Smith Square. Tel: 020 7222 1061.

Classical Opera Company