Copland's Appalachian Spring from Wales

Mark Forrest presents an afternoon of exceptional music-making featuring recent performances from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and highlights from this years Cowbridge Music Festival.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales presents a varied programme spanning Brahms’s inventive variations, Copland’s pastoral warmth, Elgar’s spirited string writing and Grace Williams’s distinctive Welsh voice. Together, these works showcase the orchestra’s versatility and the expressive richness of orchestral music.
From the Cowbridge Festival, an annual celebration of music in the Vale of Glamorgan, there is chamber music from the acclaimed Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams and the Consone Quartet.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales:
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a theme by Haydn
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jaime Martin (conductor)

Cowbridge Festival:
Richard Wagner / Franz Liszt
O du mein holder Abendstern (Tannhäuser)
Llŷr Williams (piano)

Cowbridge Festival:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in B-flat major, ‘Hunt’
Consone Quartet

BBC National Orchestra of Wales:
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan McAdams (conductor)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales:
Edward Elgar
Introduction & Allegro
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
David Hill (conductor)

Claude Debussy (arr Emmanuel Francois)
Petite Suite (extract)
Baptiste Trotignon
Ces Messieurs
Van Kuijk Quartet

BBC National Orchestra of Wales:
Grace Williams
Symphony No 1
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Emilia Hoving (conductor)

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