BBC Hoddinott Hall 2024-25

Join us in Newport and Cardiff this summer for our special lunchtime concerts presented by BBC NOW leader, Lesley Hatfield, kicking off with Haydn’s Sturm und Drang masterpiece, his Symphony No. 64.

If historically serenades were intended as music for entertainment, then Brahms has most definitely excelled in his Serenade No. 2.

For the first time in Cardiff, experience the emotionally charged performances of one of the most exciting youth orchestras in the world. Sixteen brilliant young disabled and non-disabled musicians will perform beautiful contemporary classical music.

Busy whispers and buzzing excitement lead to gargantuan climaxes in Mozart’s ever-popular overture to the opera Le nozze di Figaro. Witty, scampering and joyful throughout, it’s the perfect opener to any concert.

Welsh Euphonium sensation David Childs steps into the solo spot for the world premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s new concerto Where the Lugar meets the Glaisnock, and the folk music of England provides the scene for Vaughan Williams’ In the Fen Country.