Prom 60: Netherlands RPO/Van Zweden – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonIt is no disgrace to be the second-best orchestra in a country that also has the Royal Concertgebouw; yet the future of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic was very much in doubt last year, after the Dutch government announced swingeing cuts to its arts budget. It would have been one of three orchestras to disappear, had the Netherlands Music Centre closed down as proposed. But the outcry from the musical world prompted at least a partial rethink and now, it seems, the ce...

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