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Toes will be tapping as Mexican conductor, Carlos Miguel Prieto, joins ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ NOW to kick off the new season with flare, featuring works from his home country.

Painting and sound become one, a Wayfaring soul is lost to the hills, and the past merges with the present in a fantasia to a Golden Age.

As part of nationwide events marking the centenary of the end of World War One, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales give the world premiere of Charles Villiers Stanford’s Mass Via Victrix (1914-1918).

A powerful expression of both loss and hope, Britten’s War Requiem was a defining work not just for him but for twentieth century music, a true landmark in the choral repertoire.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ NOW performs two premieres in a concert full of light and power, under the baton of Geoffrey Paterson.

From its foreboding overture to the joyous ‘Amens’ of the final chorus, Handel’s Messiah is packed with incident and contrast. It never fails to stir.