All music should have rhythm and pulse.  It should be exciting and dynamic to listen to and feel.  Romantic orchestral music is no exception, it's just that in most modern performances the vitality of rhythm has been gradually eroded in favour of the simplest way of playing the notes. Making each note as perfect as possible means losing the thread of the musical line - and the sense of a whole piece of music.

TORSO believes you should be able to tap your feet in Romantic music without losing the thread in a fog of lovely but meaningless sound.  You should be able to hear the heartbeat in a melody, where it's going and where it wants to go. The ebb and flow of music should be an overriding life-force, a way to tell when the music is moving forward or arriving at a resting place.  

Romantic Music has been smoothed over, moulded into seamless, perfect, boring landscapes for a pastel-shaded, self-perpetuating audience.  We aim to give it back its LIFE.

We like it. We hope you do.