Prom 18: Australian YO/Elder | Classical review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonMark Elder's connections with the Australian Youth Orchestra go back more than a quarter of a century. When he first worked with the orchestra, its principal viola was Brett Dean, then about to leave his native country to become a member of the Berlin Philharmonic. Dean and Elder were reunited in this concert: the AYO's programme opened with the first London performance of Dean's Amphitheatre, composed ten years ago.Though conceived as an evocation of the various splend...

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