orchestral

Three orchestral concerts and a chamber recital at Carnegie Hall would normally engender nothing but pride from the musicians in question and reverence from audiences.

A concert held at St Matthew's Church, Northampton, on Saturday will feature a performance of the Grand Concerto Gastronomique for Waiter, Eater and Food; a suite of six short orchestral pieces,

The “Firebird” Suite blossomed in a rainbow of extravagant orchestral color, while Dudamel brought a new sumptuousness to “Rite of Spring.”

In the laboratory, dead leaves and buzzing flies whirl through the air as if to keep up with the inventor’s wild ambitions and Alexandre Desplat’s swirling orchestral score.

The orchestral writing, nicely handled by conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, can be colorful, though the ominous Wagner tubas become predictable after a while and the electronica for which Mr. Bates is best known is barely discernible.