Prom 53: Norwegian CO

Royal Albert Hall, LondonGrieg's Holberg Suite must hold some sort of record as the classical chocolate-box favourite least often programmed at the Proms – just four hearings in 115 years until this week. Presumably the feeling is that string orchestras cannot command the vast spaces of the Albert Hall. If so, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, playing standing up (though seated for the rest of the concert) and incisively led by Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen, made a nonsense of any such pr...

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