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Benjamin Beilman

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Dvořák 8 With Ryan Bancroft

Bangor

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Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre (Bangor University)

Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Dvořák 8 With Ryan Bancroft: The Spark Catchers Kendall, Hannah (+2 More)

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The Spark Catchers

Violin Concerto in A Minor, op. 82

Symphony No. 8 in G Major, op. 88

Saurav Kumar

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Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft joins us on the road again this autumn, kicking off the programme with Hannah Kendall’s The Spark Catchers. From its vigorous liveliness and rhythmic drive to its brooding melodies and distinguished gleaming delicacy, the work is based on Lemn Sissay’s wonderfully dynamic and vibrant poem of the same name.

Glazunov’s Violin Concerto, although written over a century before Hannah Kendall’s work, portrays a similar lyricism and rhythmic liveliness. Combining soloistic virtuosity with deep emotion and lyrical expression, moods, tempos and dynamics shift between movements to create the whole. Dvořák reflects sheer joy of the natural world in his equally rhythmic and melodious Eighth Symphony. Low, dark chorales give way to heroic woodwind solos, melancholic eloquence give way to dance tinged joy in this rousingly dramatic symphony.

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Dvořák 8 With Ryan Bancroft by Kendall, Hannah, Glazunov, A., Dvořák, From (2023/2023), Conductor Ryan Bancroft, Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre (Bangor University), Bangor, United Kingdom

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