United Kingdom Welsh Foundations 1 – Jones, Hoddinott, Hardy, Mathias: Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 18.10.2016. (PCG)
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Young British musicians take inspiration from the Ellington-Strayhorn Songbook
United Kingdom Ellington, Strayhorn: Cleveland Watkiss (voice), Tom Harrison (alto sax), Ashley Henry (piano), Daniel Casimir (double bass), David Lyttle (drums), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 14.10.2016. (GPu)
BBC NOW Opens Season with Meticulous but Electrifying Firebird Performance
United Kingdom Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Ibert: Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Emily Beynon (flute), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Søndergård (conductor), St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 13.10.2016. (PCG)
York Bowen’s Second Viola Sonata Crowns Power and Crawford-Phillips’ Recital
United Kingdom Bach, Turnage, Bowen: Lawrence Power (viola), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 14.10.2016. (GPu)
Some Rarities and Top-Class Musicianship in a lunchtime concert by Onyx Brass
United Kingdom Arnold, Brahms, J.S. Bach, Shostakovich, Howells, Horowitz, Nightingale – Onyx Brass: Niall Keatley, Alan Thomas (trumpets), Andrew Sutton (horn), Amos Miller (trombone), David Gordon-Shute (tuba), plus RWCMD Brass: Joshua Barber, Benjamin Day, Corey Morris, Jac Thomas (trumpets), Fiona Bassett, Matthew Jackson, Victoria Scanlon, Alys Jones (horns), Amy Harding, Joseph Arkwright, Nicholas Macdonald (trombones), Lloyd Pearce (bass trombone), Iolo Edwards, James Harrison (percussion), Jemma Sharp (timpani), The Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 7.10.2016. (GPu)
Magisterial Beethoven from Llŷr Williams
United Kingdom Beethoven: Llŷr Williams (piano), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 6.10.2016. (GPu)
Hallé. Elder and Grosvenor Cover Themselves with Glory in Cardiff
United Kingdom Beethoven, Liszt and Dvořák: Benjamin Grosvenor (piano), Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 7.10.2016. (PCG)
WNO’s Intoxicating Kiss Me, Kate Has Vivacious Energy and Effervescent Intelligence
United Kingdom Cole Porter, Kiss Me, Kate (Company Production Premiere): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / James Holmes (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 29.9.2016. (GPu)
Landi Oshinowo (Hattie), Jeni Bern (Lilli Vanessi & Katharine), Quirijn de Lang (Fred Graham/Petruchio)
(c) Richard Hubert Smith