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The 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales in Wagner: Siegfried Idyll. Mathias: Flute Concerto. Gareth Glyn: Gododdin. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts).

Verity Sharp presents a recent concert by the 成人快手 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. 成人快手 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
成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

2.20pm
Mathias: Flute Concerto
Matthew Featherstone (flute)
成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

2.40pm
Gareth Glyn: Gododdin
成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

2.55pm
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - excerpts
成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales
Alexandre Bloch (conductor).

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Idyll

    Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
  • William Mathias

    Concerto for Flute and Orchestra

    Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Matthew Featherstone. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
  • Gareth Glyn

    Gododdin

    Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61

    Orchestra: 成人快手 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Alexandre Bloch.

Broadcast

  • Wed 7 Jan 2015 14:00