United Kingdom Vale of Glamorgan Festival 3 – Sørensen, Boden, Lindberg, Hudry: Andreas Borregard (accordion), Tana Quartet, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff, 13.5.2016. (PCG)
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Good Reception for Three Premieres of Distinction from BBC NOW
United Kingdom Vale of Glamorgan Music Festival 2 – Boden, Puw, Vasks: Madeleine Mitchell (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales cond. Edwin Outwater, Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 12.5.2016. (PCG)
Latvian Choir Draws in the Crowds to Glamorgan Musicfest
United Kingdom 2016 Vale of Glamorgan Music Festival I – Vasks, Esenvalds, Hillborg, Pärt: Latvian Radio Choir / Sigvards Klava (conductor), St Augustine’s Church, Penarth, 10.5.2016. (PCG)
Enjoyable Evening in Italy with Welsh Sinfonia
United Kingdom Schubert, Giacotto, Martello, Barber, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn: Gillian Taylor (oboe), Robin Stowell (violin), Welsh Sinfonia / Mark Eager (conductor), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 30 April 2016 (PCG)
Olena Tokar Displays Sensitive and Subtle Artistry in Lesser Known Repertoire
United Kingdom Respighi, Liszt, Korngold: Olena Tokar (soprano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Damian Iorio (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 26 April 2016 (PCG)
Americans in Cardiff: BBC NOW Performs Familiar and Unfamiliar Works
United Kingdom Roy Harris, John Adams, Gershwin, Bernstein: Chloë Hanslip (electric violin), William Wolfram (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Eric Stern (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 15.4.2016. (PCG)
Grace Williams’s Mass Finally Gets the Performance It Deserves
United Kingdom Grace Williams: Fflur Wyn (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Rees (tenor), Jason Howard (bass), Rowan Williams (narrator), members of National Youth Choir of Wales, Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Huw Morgan (trumpet), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tecwyn Evans (conductor), St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 1.3.2016 (PCG)
Prokofiev and Rachmaninov Trump Tchaikovsky in BBC NOW’s St Valentine’s Day Concert
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev: Freddy Kempf (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thomas Søndergård (conductor), St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 14.2.2016 (PCG)