HIGH flying girl group All Angels are set to reach new heights with a second album of classical and pop favourites due for release next Monday.

The platinum selling artists, who last year had a top ten hit with their debut album, return with a new selection of pieces in a classical style. Having met Sir Paul McCartney, performed for the Queen and been nominated for a Classical Brit, as well as passing their A levels with flying colours, the girls have had an extraordinary year.

Angel Daisy Chute recently completed her studies at The Purcell School in Bushey. Having heard about the music school through a friend, the 17-year-old from Loretto, Edinburgh, auditioned and heard she'd been accepted a couple of days later.

Daisy says: "It was great to be in a school full of likeminded musicians and because it's so near London it was good for concert opportunities. It was scary at first as it was my first time boarding and but the quality of teaching was great, both academically and the music tuition. I'm quite interested in music technology and the Purcell has a really good studio."

Daisy was halfway through her first year when she found about the All Angels auditions.

"I'd met Howard Goodall before at a concert and I'd slipped in my jazz CD with my profile. I recorded it at 15 and then he hired me to do some programmes. He also introduced me to my manager and she put me up for audition."

Before coming to Bushey, Daisy had already had a professional role under her belt. Aged nine, she was chosen to play Cosette in the British touring production of Les Miserables. She has appeared in several television and radio plays, is the youngest singer to appear on Humphrey Lyttelton's BBC Radio 2 show and has worked as a reporter on the BBC Newsroundprogramme. She has also appeared on the Edinburgh Fringe and aged 15 she hired professional session men and spent £5,000 to make that all important solo jazz CD.

"I was given the idea from a jazz course I took in Edinburgh run by Mark Murphy and Barbara Morrison. They were running this masterclass and Mark asked me what I'd recorded. At the time I was 14 and I thought, what, I'm supposed to have recorded something?'. Mark said I sounded like Barbra Streisand and that pushed me on to think about recording. I spent one day at home to record the songs on the Steinway I inherited from my grandparents and another day at the sound engineer's house. It was quite expensive to arrange the copyright and the licence but I sold my CDs for £10 at school concerts and managed to break even."

Little did Daisy know she was just a couple of years away from a really big break.

"When we released All Angels we didn't expect it to do as well as it did, going in at nine on the pop charts and two on the classical charts," recalls Daisy Chute, who sings the bottom harmonies in the Angels' vocal blend (she was amazed to hear Paul McCartney praising her low notes when they met the legendary ex-Beatle at the Classical Brits). Daisy describes the quartet's first album as "kind of chilled and laidback," but adds that "this time, we wanted it to be a little more bright and uptempo, with more challenging arrangements."

All Angels second album, Into Paradise, includes covers of hits such as Coldplay's The Scientist and Prince's Nothing Compares 2U, as well as new takes on classical repertoire including Mozart's Canzonetta Sull'Aria and the ever popular Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah.

The group also ran an Angel Idol competition in conjunction with Classic FM, which was won by Alexandra Lawrie, 26, from Perranporth, Cornwall. Alexandra will join the Angels for a concert on Wednesday, November 28 at St James' Church Piccadilly.

Click here to read an interview with All Angels' Melanie Nakhla