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Fiona Monbet's Faubourg 23, filmed live in BBC Hoddinott Hall
Meditative melodies contrast with energetic themes and hymn-like tunes meld with soaring lyricism in Charles Ives' encapsulatingly Romantic symphony.
Start your Christmas this year with one of the best-known and most-loved choral works in Western music, Handel’s Messiah.
Christmas Carols in cosy jumpers, children joyfully singing, readings by your favourite BBC Wales presenters and uplifting brass and percussion. What more could you need to get you in the Christmas spirit?
Our ever-popular Christmas Celebrations are back!
Christmas Carols in cosy jumpers, children joyfully singing and uplifting brass and percussion. What more could you need to get you in the Christmas spirit?
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales perform Debussy's Nocturnes under the baton of Gergely Madaras.
Start your musical journey this January with Janáček’s immensely popular tragicomedy The Cunning Little Vixen.
Gareth Malone will be conducting a unique performance of Handel’s Messiah at the world-famous Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff.
Opera superstar Danielle de Niese makes her debut with BBC NOW as Elle in a semi-staged performance of Poulenc’s powerful one act opera, La voix humaine.
Dark drama contrasts outright giddiness in Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony, demonstrating kaleidoscopic variation at its most vivid.
We continue our Grace series showcasing Welsh talent and women in music this spring with works by Cecilia Darmström, Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade and Grace Williams, all under the baton of Emilia Hoving.
In celebration of the 100th birthday of Pierre Boulez, conductor Daniel Cohen s BBC NOW for an evening of 20th Century gems, kicking off with Boulez’s own Livres pour cordes.
2025 sees the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death, so in celebration of his life we take his firecracker Ninth Symphony on the road to Aberystwyth and Bangor this March.
Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony – striking climaxes give way to soulful solos, forceful marches to thunderous celebration, all based on one musical motif skilfully transformed and developed throughout.
Discover the latest in composition in Wales this spring as composers deserving of wider exposure have the opportunity to work with conductor Jac van Steen and Composer-in-Association Gavin Higgins on their latest orchestral composition.
Discover the latest in composition in Wales this spring as composers deserving of wider exposure have the opportunity to work with conductor Jac van Steen and hear it come to life with BBC NOW.
A monumental work of tremendous power and ion, Brahms’ last and probably greatest symphony, his fourth, exudes immense beauty, grandeur and emotion.
Regarded by Beethoven as his greatest work, his Missa Solemnis is surely a ‘bucket list’ piece to experience and marvel at for all music lovers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s been a long history of composers writing musical gifts for the women they loved, and tonight’s Season Closing Concert features two of the finest.
If historically serenades were intended as music for entertainment, then Brahms has most definitely excelled in his Serenade No. 2.
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.
