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This led the soloist and conductor to discuss how Strauss, approaching the end of his fruitful life, must have been hearing birds, too. Avian singers (or images of flight) are mentioned in three of the four poems, but chirps, twitters and trills permeate theset, often as a subtle, inconspicuous...

St Paul, with its exquisite trompe l'oeil mouldings and magnificent stucco ceiling, is one of south London's best-kept architectural secrets. As Daniel Hope and a slimmed-down Chamber Orchestra of Europe quickly found, it is also a perfect recording venue. "A couple of churches that we'd...