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Article: Proms European Union Youth Orchestra Royal Albert Hall
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 5, 1996
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The European Union Youth Orchestra is certainly young - and
large. If it lacks character, that's because it scarcely has a
chance to develop, since the 140 players are chosen each year, from
over 4,000 candidates. In Saturday's concert they played as
confidently as you would expect at the end of their summer tour,
conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
Davis likes his orchestral sound big and plump, and in this
splendid programme of three Romantic masterpieces, he certainly got
it. But Richard Strauss's Don Juan found his conquests too much of
a walkover, and his ardour was consequently reduced.
In Proms News on Radio 3 last weekend, one of the orchestra's
members complained that he didn't like ...