Dudamel's Mahler 5

The Observer carried an excellent article on the prom by the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra http://www.guardian.co.uk/venezuela/story/0,,2156638,00.html. Inspiring to see 250,000 young people in Venezuela being trained in performing classical music. Conductors range up the highest possible contemporary level - Rattle, Abbado. Performance I bought of Mahler's 5th symphony conducted by Dudamel with the Simon Bolivar Your Orchestra one of the best have ever heard. The impact is because they regard classical music as conveying great ideas and great emotion rather than the anaemic restrained stuff we get from many current UK/US orchestras.