National Youth Orchestra/Adès review – assured young musicians end their season all guns blazing
Royal Albert Hall, London Thunderous timpani, stereo harps, a supersized horn section and 160 teenagers combined for Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Adès’s Dante and a Liszt waltz Three big pieces on the programme. 160 teenage musicians almost all on stage throughout. No choreography , no body perc