Proms 29 and 28: NYOGB/Petrenko; Ulster O/Faletta – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain is an annual visitor to the Proms, and its concert this year, with its principal conductor Vasily Petrenko, was part of an Albert Hall weekend that took youthful music-making as its theme. Varèse's Tuning Up – his tongue-in-cheek riff on orchestra rituals – began the concert and Anna Meredith's New Music 20x12 commission for NYOGB, Hands-Free, closed it. Both were wittily choreographed and presented, but it was Mess...

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