The digitised sheen to 12 Ensemble’s conductorless string sound works well for the more recent works, but I miss raw and gritty emotion in the Strauss.

Taken as a whole, this unusually imaginative programme comes off as far more than the sum of its parts.

The Strauss, and Claude Vivier’s Zipangu – in which a single melody is refracted through a succession of different timbres and harmonic colours – provide the substance. Utterly different they may be, but both are superbly played (without a conductor), though some might prefer a more sumptuous string sound for Strauss’s gloriously elegiac score.