The Independent - London, January 8th, 2001
LONDON SCHOOLS
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
BARBICAN HALL
LONDON
"BRAVO" SHOUTED someone immediately behind me - prematurely, but speaking for us all - after a dazzling piccolo jig that would have galvanised Nelson's entire crew. Or perhaps the Black Sea Fleet. The music - Eight Russian Folksongs - was by Liadov, a composer Valery Gergiev and his St Petersburg orchestra like wheeling out for encores. The piccolo player was one of 75 young stars of the breathtakingly accomplished London Schools Symphony Orchestra. Impish cheek for a schools' team to field a programme of Liadov, Kodaly, Ginastera (hi...
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