“India’s only professional orchestra, here on the first date of a UK tour, has plenty of character and fine musicians…
Richard Farnes was the conductor for the opening, whose programme was not at all the hackneyed selection of popular works that touring orchestras so often seem to think is the only way to make an impression with British audiences.”
– Andrew Clements, The Guardian
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