Prom 24, Royal Albert Hall, London: 'An exhilarating collision of precision and all-out abandon'

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Adams' Naive and Sentimental Music is a gleeful, all-American reclaiming of this stronghold of Western Art Music, with electric guitar, keyboard, and bagfuls of percussion making a joyous incursion into the classical symphony orchestra. The result is an exhilarating collision of precision and all-out abandon perfectly suited to Salonen, the work's original commissioner, and his orchestra. Making one of the most exciting Proms debuts we've seen yet this season, young French mezzo Marianne Crebassa was a seductive storyteller indeed, spinning her perfume-sliced tales with hypnotic ease and a generous, dark-hued tone. With Stravinsky's blissfully idiosyncratic Canonic Variations on Von Himmel Hoch as an opener this was a typically Philharmonia programme – a mixture of the familiar and the strange, the comforting and the unsettling that was totally satisfying, both in concept and ecstatic execution.