Renowned for its ‘orchestral theatre’ approach to classical music, reinventing its format and presentation in imaginative ways, the Aurora Orchestra’s mesmerising, memorised performances have become a popular feature at the Proms. It was good to see a near-capacity audience at the Albert Hall once again.
All credit to Aurora and its principal conductor Nicholas Collon for pulling in the punters with Beethoven’s bankable Fifth Symphony and offering the opportunity to experience the more elusive rewards of Xenakis’s O-Mega (with the accomplished percussionist Henry Baldwin centre-stage) and Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto.
