BBC National Orchestra of Wales:
Owain Arwel Hughes @ 80
CANCELLED - Please note, this event has been cancelled due to cases of Covid within the orchestra. All ticketholders will be reimbursed by the venue.
Andrew Lewis - In Memory (World Premiere)
Elgar - Serenade Op. 2
Fauré - Pavane
Handel - Selection from Water Music Suite (arr. Hamilton Harty)
Brahms - Symphony No. 2
We're thrilled to be back on the road again in the spring, and with much-loved Welsh conductor Owain Arwel Hughes, to celebrate his 80th birthday.
In the first half, classical favourites from, Elgar, Faure and Handel. And a world premiere of Andrew Lewis's In Memory, a commission for Bangor University's #Music100 celebrations. In the second half its Brahms’s Second Symphony. Brahms's First Symphony took nearly 20 years to complete. In staggering contrast, his second was written in one summer holiday in Portschach - an alpine area by the Wothersee that also inspired Mahler and Berg.
Tickets can be booked on Pontio's website: https://www.pontio.co.uk/online/article/22BBCNOW
Read more about Andrew Lewis’ composition ‘In Memory’ here