United Kingdom Schubert: LLŷr Williams (piano). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. 11.10.2018. (GPu)
Llŷr Williams Does Full Justice to the Emotional Ambiguity of Schubert’s Late Piano Works
Cardiff
WNO’s La Cenerentola Makes Us Laugh, Think and Feel
United Kingdom Rossini, La Cenerentola: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera / Tomáš Hanus (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 5.10.2018. (GPu)
Onyx Brass Explore the Increasingly Permeable Boundary Between Jazz and the Classical
United Kingdom Simcock, Cottle, Clowes, Walker, Rebello, Skinner – Onyx Brass: Niall Keatley, Alan Thomas (trumpets), Andrew Sutton (horn), Amos Miller (trombone), David Gordon-Shute (tuba). The Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 4.10.2018. (GPu)
Sir Thomas Allen Sings Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel
United Kingdom Vaughan Williams, Mussorgsky: Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 4.10.2018. (PCG)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales Launch New Season
United Kingdom Afternoon Fiesta: Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano), Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 28.9.2018. (PCG)
McVicar’s Traviata for WNO Tells the Story Well and Moves an Audience as it Should
United Kingdom Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / James Southall (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 21.9.2018. (GPu)
WNO’s Stirring Production of Prokofiev’s Unwieldy Theatrical Epic Rewards Ambition
United Kingdom Prokofiev, War and Peace: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Tomáš Hanus (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 15.9.2018. (GPu)
A Major Work by Stanford to be Premiered – 99 Years Late!
John Quinn discusses Stanford’s Mass Via Victrix, Op.173 with Adrian Partington
July 2016 (c) Ash Mills