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Penarth

Vale of Glamorgan Festival Begins Its 50th Anniversary Celebrations

30/05/201818/05/2018 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Various composers, Vale of Glamorgan Festival: Ensemble Midtvest, Penarth Pier Pavilion, 16.5.2018. (PCG)

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Danish Ensemble Celebrates 70th Birthdays of Metcalf and Vasks

27/05/201619/05/2016 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Vale of Glamorgan Festival 4 – Metcalf, Penderecki, Vasks: Ensemble MidtVest, All Saints Church, Penarth, 18.5.2016. (PCG)

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Latvian Choir Draws in the Crowds to Glamorgan Musicfest

19/05/201615/05/2016 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United KingdomUnited 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)

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Fitkin Finale for Vale of Glamorgan Festival

20/05/201320/05/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Narboni, Metcalf, Pécou, Bryars, Fitkin: Percussion Claviers de Lyon, All Saints Church, Penarth, 17.5.2013 (PCG)

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From Renaissance to Baroque in Victorian Splendour with Cambrian Consort

15/10/201209/10/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Tomkins, Taverner, Byrd, Weelkes, Gibbons, Giovanni Gabrieli, Schütz: Robert Court (organ), Simon Rees (presenter), Cambrian Consort / Philip Pooley, (conductor),  St. Augustine’s Church, Penarth, 7.10.2012 (GPu)

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