The hometown Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (OFB) proves big-league as they launch the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo's Bogotá es la Rusia Romántica.
The monumental sound and the forcefulness in character that Gustavo Dudamel manages to imprint on the orchestras he has conducted has been long discussed. It is almost a signature; a revolution in an orchestral world more generally interested in what is correct and traditional.