Myth and Legend – Stories and Fables BBC National Orchestra of Wales new season of Cardiff Concerts from September to June has been announced and goes on general sale tomorrow.
With a theme of Myth and Story-Telling the Orchestra will perform 12 concerts at St David’s Hall where they are Orchestra-in-Residence using the power of music to bring legends to life in the thrill of a live performance. The season includes Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe, Roussel’s Bacchus et Ariane, Mahler’s Third Symphony and Roméo et Juliette amongst many other great works to be performed. A Christmas Celebrations Family concert with Conductor Grant Llewellyn is also planned.
The season will see international and world class conductors and soloists joining the Orchestra including Gautier Capuçon, Katarina Karnéus, Peter Donohoe, Anthony Marwood, Lars Vogt, Viktoria Mullova, Llŷr Williams, Grant Llewellyn, Olivier Charlier, Douglas Boyd, Andrew Litton and the Orchestra’s Conducting Team Thierry Fischer, Jac van Steen, Tadaaki Otaka and François-Xavier Roth.
In addition music lovers can hear the Orchestra in Cardiff at BBC Hoddinott Hall, the Orchestra & Chorus’s recording and rehearsal home at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay. The Hoddinott Hall series will include Winter Evenings, a short series of concerts focusing on the music of contemporary composers, an evening concert featuring the BBC National Chorus of Wales and a series of afternoon concerts
Thierry Fischer, Principal Conductor of BBC National Orchestra of Wales looks forward to the new season.
“Every time I open the score of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, with which we end our season, I marvel at the range of colours, inflections and power of which the symphony orchestra is capable. This season we open with the bright, vivid Russian colours of Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, then, later in the season, we will be exploring the entirely different refined French palate of orchestral colours, from Berlioz to Henri Dutilleux. Today’s composers also have found new colours in the symphony orchestra and amongst those contemporary works that we’ll be playing are pieces by John Adams, Thomas Adès and our Composer-in-Association, Simon Holt – composers who have reinvented the symphony orchestra for the twenty-first century.
“As I write, we have now been in our new recording and rehearsal home at BBC Hoddinott Hall for one year. Rehearsing and preparing our performances and performing in this miraculous new hall and playing to our audiences in the wonderful acoustics of St David’s Hall, is helping us realise these wonderful scores like these with a new precision and clarity that thrills me every time. ”
St David’s Hall Orchestral Concert Season
Further information on subscription tickets, single prices tickets, family tickets and discounts are available from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Audience Line on 0800 052 1812.
