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2023-09-28 14:42:44
Pier Pavilion, PenarthA programme of Caroline Shaw, Augusta Read Thomas, Lera Auerbach and Gabriela Lena Frank offered richly coloured and moving music, expressively played by Sinfonia CymruSinfonia Cymru’s chamber programme – given as part of this year’s
2022-08-08 07:07:00
Vale of Glamorgan Festival 2022: a spotlight on living composers
This year's Vale of Glamorgan Festival runs from 22 to 30 September 2022 with concerts in Cardiff and Penarth, and puts the spotlight on living composers with John Luther Adams and Huw Watkins as featured composers. The festival opens on 22 September at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Jac van Steen, in new pieces by David Roche and Sarah Lianne Lewis, music by John Metcalf, and Huw Watkins, plus Grace Williams' Piano Concertante with Clare Hammond (piano).Visitors to the festival include the Carducci Quartet and pianist Robin Green. The Carducci Quartet will be performing music by John Luther Adams, Huw Watkins, Tarik O'Regan, Philip Glass and György Kurtág, as well as joining forces with Robin Green for Huw Watkins' Piano Quartet. Robin Green's solo recital features music by Thomas Adès, Robert Fokkens, and John Adams.There are concerts from Deian Rowlands (harp) and Sara Trickey (violin). and Jennifer Walker […]
2020-05-16 07:50:52
Vale of Glamorgan at Home
This weekend, the Vale of Glamorgan Festival is going on-line, with a series of events featuring composers who were to be part of the 2020 festival. The first event, last night, was a mix of discussion and performance with composer and pianist Huw Watkins, composer and festival director John Metcalf, composer and writer Steph Power and harpist Ann Denholm [available on YouTube]. On Monday 18 May 2020, Steph Power will be joined in discussion by composers Mark Bowden, Mared Emlyn, Maja Palser, David John Roche, and director of Ty Cerdd, Deborah Keyser. And there will be performances of each of the composers' music, by David Adams, violin, Robin Green, piano, Ann Denholm, harp, David John Roche, guitar, Matthew Jones, violin, Annabel Thwaite, piano. Then on Friday 22 May 2020, the festival goes international as John Metcalf and Steph Power will be joined in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
2020-03-30 08:09:09
A major addition to the symphonic repertoire: Erkki-Sven Tüür's 'Mythos', commissioned for the centenary of the Republic of Estonia
[…] the Wind..., and the disc also celebrates the composer's 60th birthday. Erkki-Sven Tüür is one of the major contemporary Estonian composers; he studied at Tallinn Conservatoire with Jaan Rääts, and with Lepo Sumera. For a period he was part of the progressive rock group, Spe. His output includes nine symphonies and an opera, Wallenberg. We caught music by Tuur and by Raats at the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra's concert at the 2015 Vale of Glamorgan Festival [see my review].Paavo Järvi founded the Estonian Festival Orchestra in 2011 as being resident at the Pärnu Music Festival, bringing together the best of Estonian talent alongside leading musicians from around the world. The orchestra became the first Estonian orchestra to perform at the BBC Proms in 2018 [see my review]. Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra The symphony starts from 'primordial chaos', […]