Cardiff – Page 8 – Seen and Heard International

BBC NOW presents two warhorses in Cardiff

10/05/202225/02/2022 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Bacewicz, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky: Johan Dalene (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Marta Gardolíńska (conductor). BBC Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 24.2.2022. (PCG)

New work by Sarah Lianne Lewis is a success for BBC NOW in Cardiff

20/02/202212/12/2021 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Sarah Lianne Lewis, John Woolrich, Ravel: Timothy Ridout (viola), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Finnegan Downie Dear (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 10.12.2021. (PCG)

Finnegan Downie Dear conducts the BBC NOW

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

30/12/202108/11/2021 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

30/12/202105/11/2021 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

30/12/202101/11/2021 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

04/12/202103/10/2021 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

04/12/202130/09/2021 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)

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