National Youth Orchestra/Hazlewood – review

Sage, GatesheadAccording to Hungarian folk tradition, any story told after sneezing must be true. Zoltán Kodály prefaced his Háry János suite – about an old soldier whose tales of defeating Napoleon single-handed are prone to some exaggeration – with a huge orchestral convulsion. In the hands of the 170-strong National Youth Orchestra, that's a very loud sneeze indeed.Kodály's suite provided the connecting thread of a programme dedicated to the special relationship between classical m...

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