SO that we don’t go into overdrive in praise of the CBSO Youth Orchestra Academy, we have to note that their concert was not quite as impeccable as we might expect of an orchestra of adult players.

There were a number of questionable moments in the horn section in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. But otherwise it was almost professional rendering of the work.

In this account of Symphony No. 7, there was an in-depth sound in strings and mostly great synchronisation between strings and woodwind forces. Musical markings in the score were given special attention by conductor Michael Seal who seemed to be able to produce co-ordination between all the orchestra’s forces without apparent effort. This would indicate that the players were well able to do the work.

There were washes of sonorous, energetic string sound too in Arvo Part’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten and raw, folk-like vigour in Ligeti’s Concert Romanesc. Pleasing playing from the guitarist in Rodrigo’s Concerto de Aranjuez had the CBSO’S professional-sounding string section again able to give a sound accompaniment in support of the soloist.