Although the alphorn is limited by its size and range, it may come as a surprise that works exist for this unusual instrument with orchestra. Leopold Mozart, father of Wolfgang, composed a number of concertante works for instruments not usually associated with the orchestra, and his deftly-constructed Sinfonia Pastorella exhibits a charm all of its own. The remaining three works were all written closer to our own time, the Dialogue and Concerto by Daetwyler exploiting the characteristics of the alphorn to evoke the relationship between man and nature, and the Farkas Concertino a brief essay making clever use of the richness of the instrument’s timbre.