United Kingdom Ryan Quigley Quintet [Ryan Quigley (trumpet), Paul Booth (tenor sax), Geoff Keezer (keyboard), Michael Janisch (double bass), Clarence Penn (drums)]: Swansea Jazzland, Swansea. 7.9.2016. (GPu)
Glyn Pursglove
Kommilitonen! A stirring triumph for WNO Youth Opera
United Kingdom Maxwell Davies, Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!): (Production Premiere) Soloists, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Orchestra of WNO Youth Opera / Alice Farnham (conductor), Memo Arts Centre, Barry, South Wales. 27.7.2016. (GPu)
A Young Choir creates an Hour of Radiant Order on a Chaotic Day
United Kingdom Gibbons, Schütz, Monteverdi, Bruckner, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Hamilton, Wheeler, Swingle: National Youth Chamber Choir / Greg Hallam (conductor), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 17.6.2016 (GPu)
Quercus Reveal the Riches to be Found in Austerity in an Eclectic programme
United Kingdom Quercus: [June Tabor (vocal) Huw Warren (piano) Iain Ballamy (tenor saxophone)], Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 3.6.2016. (GPu)
Mascagni/Leoncavallo Double Bill – a Fitting Way to Celebrate WNO’s 70th Birthday
United Kingdom Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana & Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi (conductor), Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 26.5.2016. (GPu)
While Not Perfect WNO Realize Ian Bell’s highly ambitious In Parenthesis Well
United Kingdom Bell, In Parenthesis: (World Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Carlo Rizzi (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 13.5.2016. (GPu)
A Strong Sense of Form and Far More than Four Mallets from 4-Mality
United Kingdom Rafnsson, Du Plessis, Bradley, Norman, Marino, Hastings: 4-Mality (Jan Bradley, Sophie Hastings, Mark Norman, Sam Wilson). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 29.4.2016. (GP)
Enjoyable and Illuminating “Inquisition of Sound” from Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments
United Kingdom Hume, Nicholls, William Lawes, Robert Jones, Byrd, Tomkins, Anonymous, Brade, Gibbons: The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments (Jon Banks – santouri, gothic harp, percussion, Liam Byrne – lirone, treble viol, Jean Kelly – triple harp, bray harp, Alison Mcgilivray –bass viol, lyra viol, Jo Wills – electronics), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff. 2.3.2016. (GPu)
