United Kingdom Composition: Wales: BBC National Orchestra of Wales / B Tommy Anderson (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 4.3.2020. (PCG)
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Nicky Spence’s intense Cardiff performance of Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared
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)
BBC NOW’s Conflict and Triumph in Cardiff
United Kingdom Dvořák, Sibelius: Alban Gerhardt (cello), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Anu Tali (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 20.2.2020. (PCG)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra tour reaches Cardiff
United Kingdom Ravel, Thorvaldsdottir, Prokofiev, Bizet: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Iceland Symphony Orchestra / Yan-Pascal Tortelier (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 13.2.2020. (PCG)
Outstanding playing from the Albion Quartet in Cardiff
United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Brahms: Albion Quartet (Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Emma Parker [violins], Ann Beilby [viola], Nathaniel Boyd [cello]). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. 11.2.2020. (GPu)
Valiant attempt but WNO’s new Les vȇpres siciliennes can’t quite persuade one of its merits
United Kingdom Verdi, Les vȇpres siciliennes: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 8.2.2020. (GPu)
(c) Johan Persson
Abundance of Mediterranean light and dark in an outstanding recital by Llŷr Williams
United Kingdom Ravel, Mompou, Granados, Albeniz, Debussy: Llŷr Williams (piano). Cardiff, Dora Stoutzker Hall, 30.1.2020. (GPu)
BBC NOW’s jazzical tales in Cardiff
United Kingdom Jazzical tales: Huw Watkins (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / David Danzmayr (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 23.1.2020. (PCG)