Prom 72: Collon/ Aurora Orchestra
Royal Albert Hall, 12th September 2019
“You take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral.” Leonard Bernstein’s legendary description of the opium-fuelled drama of the Symphonie fantastique at one of his Young People’s Concerts in 1969 echoed in the air last night. The same combination of education and entertainment imbued Aurora Orchestra’s Proms performance, the last significant hurrah of the Berlioz 150 anniversary. Billed as an “orchestral theatre staging”, Aurora – playing the score from memory – gave us thrills, chills (and no spills) in a vivid reading… which they then repeated at the late night concert.
Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra
© BBC | Mark Allan
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