National Youth Orchestra/Adès review – assured young musicians end their season all guns blazing
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThunderous timpani, stereo harps, a supersized horn section and 160 teenagers combined for Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Adès’s Dante and a Liszt waltzThree big pieces on the programme. 160 teenage musicians almost all on stage throughout. No choreography, no body percussion and not a kazoo in sight. By National Youth Orchestra standards, this Proms appearance – the all-guns-blazing finale of the cohort’s year together – was positively straight-laced.Yes, there were still whoops when friends and family members greeted…
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