大象传媒

Verity Sharp presents a recent concert by the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales at St Asaph Cathedral, part of the North Wales International Music Festival. Music by Wagner, Mathias, Gareth Glyn and Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn loved the British Isles and adored Shakespeare, writing the overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream when he was only 17 and somehow recapturing that youthful spirit when he added to it a sequence of incidental music nearly two decades later. The programme begins with Wagner's birthday present to his wife Cosima, the Siegfried Idyll, before works by two major Welsh composers. 大象传媒 NOW's principal flute Matthew Featherstone plays William Mathias's late Flute Concerto, and the orchestra gives the premiere of Gareth Glyn's Gododdin, which takes its inspiration from the 13th-century Book of Aneirin.

2pm
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

2.20pm
Mathias: Flute Concerto
Matthew Featherstone (flute)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

2.40pm
Gareth Glyn: Gododdin
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

2.55pm
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - excerpts
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor).