This release on the Royal Academy of Music’s new label makes it untenable to draw a distinction between student and professional ensembles. The account of Strauss’s Sonatina No 1 is sheer tonal, phrasal, orchestral dazzlement. Both the surface and the weighting of texture scintillate, and one realises anew what a wonderful work it is. The austere ritual of Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments comes across in all its elliptical grandeur. For Messiaen’s monumental ritual Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, winds are joined by percussionists on metal instruments, and there is nothing elliptical about the grandeur here. The gong-tormented last few minutes are spectacular. Four stars