Tomorrow's orchestras are in safe hands, the evidence being the performance of the students of Britain's best-known music college.
They performed Ralph Vaughan-Williams' The Wasps and Gustav Holst's The Planets with a verve and a maturity of musicians several years older.
And in a dazzling display of virtuosity, the orchestra also performed Edwin Roxburgh's tone poem Saturn, which involved lots of electronics.
Holst's reading of the nature of the different planets is still exciting and, at times, eerily modern.
Roxburgh's Saturn is more uncannily like we think space music might be and the piece tends to become a triumph of technology over music.
Like all new music, Roxburgh's Saturn is different, a little dissonant but certainly interesting and the acoustic of St Bart's Church made it sound warm and elevating.
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