National Youth Orchestra/Elder review – monumental Strauss sees young musicians scale the heights | Classical music
‘Ascent” is the title for the National Youth Orchestra’s current tour, and the dominant theme is mountaineering, at once taken literally and as a metaphor for artistic aspiration and striving. Strauss’s Alpine Symphony, pitting man against the impersonal magnificence of nature, is the main work, to which the evening’s curtain raiser, a new piece by … Read more