Delibes composed many operatic works, both serious and light, incidental music, songs, a mass and a cantata, and also wrote music for a number of ballets, the best known being Coppélia, based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story Olympia. The music which Delibes wrote for the ballet Sylvia includes ‘Pizzicati’, a piece which will be instantly recognisable, and which has been arranged here by Frances Jones for a quartet of three oboes and cor anglais.

This new arrangement replaces the former Phylloscopus edition for 2 Oboes and 2 Cors.