WELSH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA / GERDDORFA SIAMBR GYMREIG

Monday 04/07/2022

Canolfan Beaumaris

4:00pm Orchestra rehearsal free to ticketholders for this evening’s concert.
6:30 Pre-performance talk
7:30 Concert: A festive finale “Anniversaries galore”

Composer Paul Mealor, who studied with William Mathias, talks with Rhiannon Mathias about his 4th Symphony which receives its first performance tonight. The concert opens with the exhilarating Divertimento by Mathias.

William Mathias, Divertimento  
Paul Mealor, Symphony No.4. ‘At the Haunted End of Day’ Premiere
Schubert, 3 songs from Die Winterreise: Gute Nacht; Der Lindenbaum; Die Post (arranged by Gerd Büntzly) 
Borodin, Nocturne   
Percy Grainger, Molly on the Shore

Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone
Conductor, Anthony Hose

The WELSH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA was founded in 1986 and has performed in all the major venues throughout Wales as well as touring in Germany, Belgium, and France. Under its Artistic Director and Conductor Anthony Hose, the orchestra has recorded many programmes for S4C and HTV and has released CDs of music by William Mathias and Alun Hoddinott. It is the resident chamber orchestra at the Beaumaris Festival in Anglesey.

Cafodd y GERDDORFA SIAMBR GYMREIG ei ffurfio ym 1986 ac mae wedi perfformio ym mhob neuadd fawreddog yng Nghymru yn ogystal â theithio trwy’r Almaen, Gwlad Belg, a Ffrainc. O dan arweiniad ei Chyfarwyddwr Artistig a’i Phrif Arweinydd, Anthony Hose, mae’r gerddorfa wedi recordio nifer o raglenni ar gyfer S4C a HTV ac wedi cyhoeddi CDiau o gerddoriaeth gan Wiliam Mathias ac Alun Hoddinott. Hon yw cerddorfa siambr gartref Gŵyl Beaumaris ar Ynys Môn.