Friends of Cwmdu Music–our first 2025 concert
We have some updates to details of our first concert for 2025. Saturday, 8th March 7:30 pm — Nantwen Ensemble.
The programme will include Schubert’s String Quintet in C Major, D. 956, String Quintet by acclaimed Welsh composer John Metcalf and Verses by Ólafur Arnalds.
The Nantwen Ensemble is a group of professional musicians enabling community performance and the creation and performing of Welsh Chamber music. Performers: Lisa Obert & Lily Whitehurst—violins, Patricia Reinoso—viola, Nichola Thomas & Daniel Davies—cello.
We’ve now released online tickets for this concert.
On Tuesday 17th December, 7pm there will be a Cwmdu Pub Choir Christmas Carols concert at St. Michael and All Angels church, Cwmdu NP8 1RW. (Parking available at the Village Hall.)
Music from JS Bach to Noddy Holder with lots in between. Free entry but there will be a charity collection & mulled cider.
The Farmers Arms will be open for drinks afterwards.
For some radio listening, there was a great BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert last Thursday recorded in Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. It featured works by Gabriella Smith (Tumblebird Contrails)–a response to a trip to the dramatic Point Reyes on the Californian coast, then a world premiere conducted by the composer and BBC NOW’s own principal trombone Simon Wills (Nora Barnacle Assumes Command), and finally a youthful Charles Ives’ Symphony (No.1 in D minor) composed around 1900 when he was mourning the loss of his musician father. There’s also an interval interview with Simon Wills.
