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Week 60: World Premiere - David Roche's Waves of Love

Week 59: Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments

Week 58: Ravel's L'Aurore

Week 57: Helen Grime's Limina

Week 56: John Woolrich's Viola Concerto

Week 55: Ravel's Ma Mere l'Oye

Week 54. Schwertsik's Epilog zu rosamunde

Week 53: Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto

Week 52: Boulanger's Vieille priere bouddhique

Week 51: Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances

Week 50: World Premiere - Alexander Goehr's The Master Said

Week 49: World Premiere - Joseph Davies' Parallax

Week 48: Dvořák’s Humoresques

Week 47: John Metcalf's Dances from Forgotten Places

Week 46: Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile

Week 45: Schmidt's Symphony No. 3

Week 44: Sarah Jenkins' Trallali, Trallaley, Trallalera

Week 43: Peteris Vasks' Cantabile

Week 42: Beethoven's Egmont Overture

Week 41: Schumann's Nachtstucke arr. Donal Bannister

Week 40: Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture

Week 39: Gavin Higgins Sadly Now the Throstle Sings

Week 38: Pryor's Thoughts of Love, arr. Donal Bannister

Week 37: Haydn Symphony No. 88

Week 36: Boléro de Concert by Lefébure-Wély arr. Donal Bannister

Week 35: Ravel's Mother Goose

Week 34: World Premiere - Matthew Taylor's Symphony No. 6

Week 33: Matthew Featherstone, Catrin Finch and Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp

Week 32: Berg's Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite

Week 31: Haydn's Symphony No. 90

Week 30: World Premiere - Ryan Wigglesworth's Five Waltzes

Week 29: Carlijn Metselaar's Time for your Walk

Week 28: Beethoven's Symphony No. 4

Week 27: Richard Blackford's The Better Angels Of Our Nature

Week 26: Nielsen's Four Movements for Orchestra, orchestrated by J. Swensen

Week 25: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2

Week 24: Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte

Week 23: Colin Matthews' ... through the glass

Week 22: Mozart's Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'

Week 21: Sally Beamish's Under the Wing of the Rock

Week 20: de Falla's El Retrablo de Maese Pedro

Week 19: William Mathias' Melos

Week 18: Bartok Divertimento

Week 17: Wagner's Siegfried Idyll

Week 16: Gavin Higgins' What Wild Ecstasy

Week 15: Schreker's Chamber Symphony

Week 14: Strauss' Rosenkavalier Suite

Week 13: Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Week 12: Adolphe Adam's Cantique de Noel

Week 11: Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

Week 10: Schubert's Symphony No. 5

Week 9: Strauss' Four Songs op.27

Week 8: Coleridge-Taylor's Four Novelletten

Week 7: Warlock's The Curlew

Week 6: Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings

Week 5: Judith Bingham's Strange Words

Week 4: John Woolrich's Ulysses Awakes

Week 3: Coleridge-Taylor's Nonet in F minor

Week 2: Dowland songs with James Gilchrist

Week 1: Warlock, 'Capriol Suite'

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform the world premiere of David Roche's Waves of Love

Waves of Love is fast, loud and uplifting. As a rock and metal musician at his core, big noise, insistent riffs and the desire to feel exhilarated sit at the centre of everything David writes. This piece is testament to that. - Available 7.30pm. 22nd June.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments

A compositional treatise on how to layer the orchestral woodwind and brass in striking and colourful ways - It is constructed from highly contrasted blocks of sound, which are often quite static and austere in effect.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW & NCW perform Ravel's L'Aurore

This short piece for solo tenor, mixed choir and orchestra transcends a dull poem by an anonymous author with imaginative instrumental touches and shimmering textures; building up to a dramatic climax and ending as suddenly as it began.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Helen Grime's Limina

Although there are a few clear shifts, musical states are frequently layered and dovetailed with one another, leaving the listener balanced, as it were, right on a liminal boundary in Helen Grime's Limina.

Timothy Ridout and Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform John Woolrich's Viola Concerto

A cycle of seven bleak and brooding songs-without-words - in John Woolrich's Viola Concerto the viola sings, and the orchestra echoes its song in predominantly soft and gentle colours.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Ravel's complete ballet music to Ma Mere L'Oye

Ravel’s scintillating score to Ma Mere l’Oye depicts fairytale figures through music. From Sleeping Beauty to Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb to Little Ugly, this ballet vibrantly conjures the characters with its inventive and audacious orchestrations.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Schwertsik's Epilog zu Rosamunde

Long string melodies merge with fluid pulses, and the old and new surge in dramatic build ups to create beauty and subtle nods to Schubert in this week’s digital concert – Schwertisk’s Epilog zu Rosamunde.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and Carolin Widmann perform Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto

Settle in for an atmospheric exploration of violin timbres and voices in this week’s digital concert. Carolin Widmann and Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Michael Zev Gordon’s violin concerto, a showcase of deep expression, earthy dance and introspection.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales perform Boulanger's Vieille priere bouddhique

The theme of universal fellowship is conveyed through the setting of a French translation of an old Buddhist prayer to choral writing that is simple and direct. Displaying modal touches to suggest the texts origin and featuring one of the most exotic and characterful flute solos in the repertoire, Lili Boulanger’s Vieille priere bouddhique, marks #Â鶹ԼÅÄNCW’s first digital concert appearance!

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances

Intoxicating inventiveness takes the rough bones of original folk melodies, and encapsulates the vivid moods of dance in this week’s digital concert.

Mark Lewis Jones and Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform the world premiere of Alexander Goehr's The Master Said

RPS award nominee Alexander Goehr’s The Master Said explores the learnings and teachings of Confucius, who is voiced in this fascinating work by the iconic tones of Welsh actor Mark Lewis Jones.

Daniel Pioro and Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform the world premiere of Joseph Davies' Parallax

In this piece similar materials seem to move at different rates simultaneously, as if at varying distances from the listener - just like the Parallax phenomenon.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Dvořák’s Humoresques

Blending dance-like cheerfulness with ethereal melancholy, Dvořák’s Humoresque has enjoyed popularity since its first performance. Watch our performance here!

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform John Metcalf's Dances from Forgotten Places

Five fast dances and one slow make up John Metcalf’s Dances from Forgotten Places. Rather than places though, they actually refer to artistic characteristics of contemporary music! Watch Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and conductor Geoffrey Paterson perform them here as part of the 2021 Vale of Glamorgan Festival.

Alice Neary and Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW Strings perform Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile

Melding melancholic Russian folk tunes with his own graceful melody, Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile is one of his best-known and much-loved works. Watch here as our principal cellist Alice Neary performs this exquisite work alongside Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Schmidt's Symphony No. 3

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW are joined by conductor Jonathan Berman for this week’s Digital Concert - Schmidt’s charming and rambunctious Symphony No. 3. So grab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Sarah Jenkins' Trallali, Trallaley, Trallalera

Inspired by Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn, depicting nature and military themes, Sarah Jenkins’ Trallali, Trallaley, Trallalera takes centre stage in tonight’s Digital Concert.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Peteris Vasks' Cantabile

Vasks’ Cantabile is a euphoric outpouring for strings, melding beauty and harmony with intense brooding. Simply magical…

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Beethoven's Egmont Overture

Count Egmont stands up to the Spanish army invading his town, dying heroically but providing inspiration to others throughout history to stand against invasion. This is the storyline of the play Egmont, for which Beethoven wrote the score in 1809. So grab a cup of tea, sit back and indulge in the wonderful sounds of Beethoven at his finest in this rousing overture.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW Brass perform Schumann's Nachtstucke arr. Donal Bannister

Schumann’s Nachtstücke are full of rhythmic drama, fluid harmonic progression and constantly shifting moods and characters – from the frolicsome to the coquettish, from uncertainty and incoherence to the finality of a funeral march.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture

Full of rising and falling dynamics, subtle harmonic shifts and a kaleidoscope of instrumental colour, Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture is a stunning depiction of the sea, the Hebrides and Fingal’s Cave.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW brass and percussion perform Gavin Higgins' Sadly Now the Throstle Sings

Taking its inspiration from Oscar Wilde's poem 'From Spring Days to Winter', Gavin Higgins' 'Sadly Now the Throstle Sings' in an elegy to the people living in Britain's ex-mining towns. Hear it here performed by the Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW brass and percussion with Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW brass and Donal Bannister perform Pryor's Thoughts of Love

With its lyrical tunes, firework flourishes, mammoth range and showy cadenza, Pryor’s waltz ‘Thoughts of Love’ perfectly showcases the trombone.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Haydn's Symphony No. 88

From exquisite flute embellishments, to gracefully melodic yet rustic tunes and one of the most cheerful finales he ever wrote, Haydn’s Symphony No. 88 truly has all of the charm, elegance and virtuosity you could hope for in a symphony.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Lefébure-Wély's Bolero de Concert arr. Donal Bannister

Lefébure-Wély’s Bolero de Concert brings popular Spanish dance to the concert platform, with its gritty and passion themes, coupled with almost funfair like carousel sections.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Ravel's Mother Goose

Based on fairy tales and full of playfulness, excitement and character, Ravel’s Mother Goose glimmers with a childlike innocence and purity.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform the World Premiere of Matthew Taylor's Symphony No. 6

Matthew Taylor’s Sixth Symphony, combining shimmeringly transparent colours with robustly lyrical solos, is a shining monument to English composer Malcolm Arnold in his centenary year.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp

Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp features some of the most exquisite music ever written. Listen to harpist Catrin Finch and flautist Matthew Featherstone glide through the elegant and charming tunes of this masterpiece in this evening's Digital Concert.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Berg's Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite

From soft, delicate gestures, to intensely passionate melodies, Berg’s Lyric Suite encapsulates the emotions of love and secrecy. Hear our performance of the Three Pieces from the suite, orchestrated by the composer himself, here.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Haydn's Symphony No. 90

‘Father of the Symphony’, Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 90 is filled with elegant, virtuosic and sprightly melodies. Listen to our performance, alongside Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft here.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and Lawrence Power perform the World Premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's Five Waltzes

This week's concert piece is the World Premiere performance of Ryan Wigglesworth's interesting, inventive and creative Five Waltzes for viola and orchestra, performed by violist Lawrence Power with the composer on the podium.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Carlijn Metselaar's Time for your Walk

Time for your Walk by Carlijn Metselaar is about a recurring feeling of joy and excitement; a sense of delight so irresistible you could almost start singing!

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 4

In contrast to the fiery and heroic nature of his Third and Fifth Symphonies the Fourth has a loftier, more lyrical, relaxed and spacious quality, whilst retaining Beethoven’s archetypal playful wit, drama and love of the unexpected.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and Steven Hudson perform Richard Blackford's The Better Angels Of Our Nature

Richard Blackford’s The Better Angels Of Our Nature takes its inspiration from Abraham Lincoln’s inspirational pleas for reconciliation in his 1861 inaugural address, and is performed here by our very own Principal Oboist, Steven Hudson

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and Joseph Swensen perform Nielsen's Four Pieces for Orchestra

An orchestration by Joseph Swensen of one of Nielsen’s early string quartets, the colourful & passionate Four Movements for Orchestra encapsulates the Danish composer’s vibrant personality.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and Pavel Kolesnikov perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2

With a combination of beauty, playfulness and unpredictability, extreme emotional depth and intelligent characterisations bringing the music to life, it is no wonder that Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is so popular with pianists and audiences alike. Hear our performance of it here, alongside pianist Pavel Kolesnikov.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Caroline Shaw's Entr'acte

Caroline Shaw's technicolour 'Entr'acte' pushes the boundaries on what a minuet and trio can be, almost viewing the music from the other side of a looking glass… Think Alice in Wonderland meets Baroque music...

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Colin Matthews' ... through the glass

Derived from the last line of a poem by Edmund Blunden, Colin Matthews says how the title of his piece …through the glass evoked “imagery of a thing seen through glass, unreachable, or overlaid with reflection."

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Mozart's Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'

Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony No. 41, the last symphony he ever wrote, is abundant with joyful, passionate and intensely melodic tunes, which is perhaps the reason for its enduring popularity.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW & Lawrence Power perform Sally Beamish's Under the Wing of the Rock

With a central section drawing on rhythms and chants from Celtic working songs, and beginning and ending with extended slow sections for the solo viola, Sally Beamish's Under the Wing of the Rock draws its inspiration from the poem Carmina Gadelica.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform de Falla's El Retrablo de Maese Pedro

Falla’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro is a cheeky and charming work full of Medieval flavours. Listen to our performance with soloists Clara Mouriz, Jorge Navarro Colorado & Michel de Souza here.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Mathias' Melos

With its glittering arabesques, beguiling flourishes and rhythmic dance, Mathias’ Melos is bathed in Greek sun and myth. From the shimmering to the mysterious, it's the perfect soundtrack to your Thursday evening.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Bartok's Divertimento

With spine-tingling intensity and fresh vitality, Bartok’s exuberant Divertimento is the perfect piece to really show off our string section.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Wagner's Siegried Idyll

Written to surprise his wife for her birthday, Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll glows with contentment, passion & reverence.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Gavin Higgins' What Wild Ecstasy

Members of Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and conductor Ryan Bancroft perform What Wild Ecstasy by Composer-in-Association Gavin Higgins.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Schreker's Chamber Symphony

Schreker’s opulent, nimble and captivating Chamber Symphony isn’t performed often, but with it’s shimmeringly delicate sound world, rich romantic style and luscious melodies it deserves to be.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Strauss' Rosenkavalier Suite

Strauss’ Rosenkavalier Suite takes the iconic music from his comic opera of the same name and brings the highlights together into a 30 minute cinematic extravaganza.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Bach's iconic and popular Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, performed by members of Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW with conductor Paul Goodwin.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW & Llio Evans perform Adolphe Adam's Cantique de Noel

This week's concert piece is a song synonymous with Christmas, Adolphe Adam’s Cantique de Noel, better known to some as O Holy Night.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, with narrator Kizzy Crawford

There are some pieces so iconic to Christmas that it just wouldn’t be Christmas without them... including Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker – so here it is, performed by our brass and percussion, with a guest appearance from the wonderful Kizzy Crawford. Also available with BSL interpretation.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Schubert's Symphony No. 5

Our second December piece is Schubert’s heartfelt and intricately beautiful Fifth Symphony.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW & Kathryn Rudge perform Strauss' Four Songs op. 27

Our first December concert piece is Strauss' Four Songs op. 27, performed by members of Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and the captivating Kathryn Rudge

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW performs Coleridge-Taylor's Four Novelletten

With the elegance of Elgar and the melodiousness of Dvořák, here's this week's autumn concert: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 'Four Novelletten'.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and James Gilchrist perform Warlock's The Curlew

Our third November concert piece is Warlock's exquisitely beautiful and atmospheric The Curlew, performed by tenor James Gilchrist and our principal strings, flute and cor anglais.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW performs Serenade for Strings by Tchaikovsky

Our second November concert piece, conducted by Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft, is Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings with its unmistakeable Tchaikovskian melancholy, elegance and drama.

James Gilchrist and Alice Neary perform Judith Bingham's Strange Words

Our first November concert piece is Judith Bingham's enchantingly magical and intimate Strange Words, performed by tenor James Gilchrist and our Principal Cellist, Alice Neary.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and Rebecca Jones perform John Woolrich's Ulysses Awakes

Our final October concert piece is a stunning performance of John Woolrich's Ulysses Awakes, featuring our Principal Viola Rebecca Jones as soloist.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and Simon Crawford-Phillips perform Coleridge-Taylor's Nonet in F minor

Our third performance in the October season is a performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Nonet in F minor with pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW and James Gilchrist perform songs by John Dowland

For our second performance in the October season we have three songs by Dowland, performed by tenor James Gilchrist.

Â鶹ԼÅÄ NOW perform Capriol Suite by Peter Warlock

Here's the first piece of our brand new digital series, Peter Warlock's Capriol Suite.