Cardiff – Seen and Heard International

BBC NOW play more Grace Williams and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and a Carl Nielsen symphony

08/11/2021 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Grace Williams, Vaughan Williams, Bartók, Nielsen: Madeleine Mitchell (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/ Jamie Phillips (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 6.11.2021. (PCG)

Madeleine Mitchell was the soloist in Vaughan Williams’s *The Lark Ascending*

BBC NOW play Grace Williams and Ralph Vaughan Williams

06/11/202105/11/2021 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Britten, Williams, Vaughan Williams: Madeleine Mitchell (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Jamie Phillips (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 3.11.2021. (PCG)

Madeleine Mitchell (violin) with the BBC NOW in Cardiff’s Hoddinott Hall

New British music from the BBC NOW in Cardiff

01/11/2021 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Goehr, Grime, Gordon: Carolin Widman (violin), Mark Lewis Jones (speaker), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Catherine Larsen-Maguire (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 29.10.2021. (PCG)

Carolin Widman (violin) (c) Lennard Ruehle

Vintage WNO production of The Barber of Seville stills works well, a timely affirmation of the comic vision

04/11/202103/10/2021 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Rossini, The Barber of Seville: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Frederick Brown (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 29.9.2021. (GPu)

(l-r) Nicholas Lester (Figaro), Heather Lowe (Rosina), Andrew Shore (Bartolo) and Nico Darmanin (Almaviva) (c) Richard Hubert Smith

Musical beauty from Joyce El-Khoury, Carlo Rizzi and WNO orchestra in an interesting, though not fully satisfying, Madam Butterfly

04/11/202130/09/2021 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Puccini, Madam Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 24.9.2021. (GPu)

Joyce El-Khoury (Cio-Cio-San) (c) Richard Hubert Smith

World premieres from the BBC NOW in Cardiff

23/05/202005/03/2020 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Composition: Wales: BBC National Orchestra of Wales / B Tommy Anderson (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 4.3.2020. (PCG)

Nicky Spence’s intense Cardiff performance of Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared

30/03/202026/02/2020 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Janáček, Diary of One Who Disappeared: Nicky Spence (tenor), Simon Lepper (piano), Annie George (mezzo), Charlotte Forfar (soprano), Verity Belle Atkinson (soprano), Molly Beere (soprano). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. 21.2.2020. (GPu)

Nicky Spence (c) Bertie Watson

BBC NOW’s Conflict and Triumph in Cardiff

30/03/202022/02/2020 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Dvořák, Sibelius: Alban Gerhardt (cello), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Anu Tali (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 20.2.2020. (PCG)

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