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大象传媒 NOW at the North Wales International Music Festival

The 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Andrew Gourlay open the 50th North Wales International Music Festival, with music from Weber, Mathias, Glyn, and Vaughan Williams.

The 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Andrew Gourlay open this year's North Wales International Music Festival in its 50th year. Since it was founded in 1972 by composer William Mathias, the North Wales International Music Festival has been a cultural highlight for North Wales, and Gourlay brings a programme which pays tribute to its venerable history.

It begins with Weber's overture to Oberon, from his opera on the titular king of the Elves, and the piece which opened the inaugural concert of the festival. Mathias's Celtic Dances follow, written in the same year he founded the Festival, and evoking the mythological past of Celtic Britain. To finish the first half is Gareth Glyn's Amaterasu, his first harp concerto. It was commissioned by the festival in 2015, and Hannah Stone will reprise her role as harp soloist, embodying the Shinto Sun Goddess of the title.

The evening concludes with Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony. Finished 100 years ago in 1922, and part of the celebrations of the composers 150th anniversary, this achingly beautiful symphony evokes the war-torn battlefields of France and the dead of the First World War.

Recorded in St. Asaph Cathedral on the 17th of September and presented by Ian Skelly.

7.30pm
Weber: Oberon (Overture)
Mathias: Celtic Dances
Glyn: Amaterasu

8.20pm
Interval Music

8.40pm
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 3, 鈥楶astoral鈥�

Hannah Stone (harp)
Ffion Edwards (soprano)
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Wed 28 Sep 2022 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Oberon, J 306 (Overture)

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.

  • William Mathias

    Celtic Dances, Op 60

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.

  • Gareth Glyn

    Amaterasu

    Performer: Hannah Stone. Performer: Donal Bannister. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.

  • William Mathias

    3 Improvisations, Op 10

    Performer: Osian Ellis.
    • Sain SCD2785: The Unique Art of Osian Ellis.
    • Sain.
    • 10.

  • Patrick Rimes

    C芒n Cnawd y Pridd

    Performer: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Calan. Conductor: Grant Llewellyn.

  • Paul Mealor

    O Sanctissima Maria

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • I Saw Eternity.
    • Decca.
    • 13.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No 3, 'Pastoral'

    Performer: Ffion Edwards. Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto a 5 in F major Op.9`3

    Performer: Anthony Robson. Performer: Catherine Latham. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • Chaconne.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata No 11 in A major, K 331

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Mozart: Piano Sonatas/Fantasies: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Sep 2022 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3