War and peace meet in music of remembrance, journeying, and hard won joy. Ravel opens with Le Tombeau de Couperin, his 1917 suite reimagined for orchestra: Baroque dance forms refracted through glittering colour, sudden shifts of light and delicately layered sound.
Vaughan Williams then turns inward with Songs of Travel, sung here by baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen, tales of the wanderer shaped by folk song and hymn-like warmth.
The journey then turns north with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1 in E minor, a work that announces the arrival of a distinctive symphonic voice. Premiered in 1899, its brooding clarinet opening leads without pause into bold drama, while striking string and woodwind solos shape music alive with urgency and sweep. Though echoes of Tchaikovsky’s lyricism and Romantic intensity, the symphony speaks with unmistakable individuality, culminating in a hammering scherzo and a finale of stirring force.
Ryan Bancroft – Conductor
Steffan Lloyd Owen – Baritone
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Vaughan-Williams Songs of Travel
Interval | Egwyl
Sibelius Symphony No.1
Age Guidance: Suitable for all Running Time: 45 minutes/20 minute interval/40 minutes Access Needs: Please contact us to book if you have any access needs that will require suitable seating or if you need a designated wheelchair space.
BBC NOW: War and Peace | Rhyfel a Heddwch
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Production by: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
War and peace meet in music of remembrance, journeying, and hard won joy. Ravel opens with Le Tombeau de Couperin, his 1917 suite reimagined for orchestra: Baroque dance forms refracted through glittering colour, sudden shifts of light and delicately layered sound.
Vaughan Williams then turns inward with Songs of Travel, sung here by baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen, tales of the wanderer shaped by folk song and hymn-like warmth.
The journey then turns north with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1 in E minor, a work that announces the arrival of a distinctive symphonic voice. Premiered in 1899, its brooding clarinet opening leads without pause into bold drama, while striking string and woodwind solos shape music alive with urgency and sweep. Though echoes of Tchaikovsky’s lyricism and Romantic intensity, the symphony speaks with unmistakable individuality, culminating in a hammering scherzo and a finale of stirring force.
Ryan Bancroft – Conductor
Steffan Lloyd Owen – Baritone
Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
Vaughan-Williams Songs of Travel
Interval | Egwyl
Sibelius Symphony No.1
Age Guidance: Suitable for all
Running Time: 45 minutes/20 minute interval/40 minutes
Access Needs: Please contact us to book if you have any access needs that will require suitable seating or if you need a designated wheelchair space.
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