The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra: Beethoven to Bakhtin!

the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra are in London at the end of a European tour, performing Beethoven and Prokofiev’s fifth symphonies in two concerts. The first thing to strike you is the immense volume: though crammed into every corner of the stage, these players still have room to take a swing at the music. The second is the precision. Beethoven intended fairly lean orchestras to play all but