Name: A Little Night Music
Start: 2024-05-16
End: 2024-05-16
Location: Wales Millennium Centre

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BBC Welsh National Orchestra

Conductor

Joana Carneiro

Orchestra

Singer

Gavan Ring

Tenor

A Little Night Music

Cardiff

United Kingdom

Wales Millennium Centre

BBC Hoddinott Hall

Public

Concert

The Celestial Stranger

Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80

Verklärte Nacht op. 4

Saurav Kumar

Approved

Celestial, sparking lights glitter in this evening of ground-breaking music. Fauré’s suite from Pelléas et Mélisande opens in resplendent yet tumultuous style - The first musical setting of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play of the same name, which would inspire other composing greats, including Debussy, Sibelius and Schoenberg.

We move to more ethereal heights with the world premiere of Stephen McNeff’s The Celestial Stranger; then 150 years since the birth of Schoenberg we celebrate this radical composer with a performance of a work that changed the course of musical history as we know it – with a revolutionary shift in tonality and the breakdown of the traditional tonal system, Verklärte Nacht threw his name out into the world and forged his way as the creator of dodecaphonic music, more commonly known as serialism. To conduct BBC NOW for the first time we welcome the wonderful Portugeuse conductor, Joana Carniero.

English

A Little Night Music by McNeff, Fauré, Schoenberg, Arnold, Thu 16 May 2024, From (2024/2024), Conductor Joana Carneiro, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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