Name: Enigma Variations
Start: 2024-04-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-04-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Brangwyn Hall

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BBC Welsh National Orchestra

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Catrin Finch

Harp

Conductor

Jac van Steen

Enigma Variations

Swansea

United Kingdom

Brangwyn Hall

Cardiff

Wales Millennium Centre

BBC Hoddinott Hall

Public

Concert

Sea Sketches

Concerto For Harp

Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36

Saurav Kumar

Approved

Although written in London, it is a longing for the seas of Barry that inspired Grace Williams’ surging musical seascape, her Sea Sketches. An unmistakable Welshness also pervades William Mathias’ Harp Concerto; with the harp introduced to the audience as an accompanying instrument, reflecting its traditional role withing Welsh music, before assuming a more soloistic position, and quoting the Welsh song Dadl Dau in its closing movement. We’re delighted to welcome Welsh harp sensation, and a regular face with BBC NOW, Catrin Finch to perform.

Striking a balance between the light-hearted and the noble, Elgar’s Enigma Variations is an ingenious collection of musical sketches of his friends and an astute self-portrait - an enigma hidden within the score as each variation is tagged with the initials of the friends’ nicknames. To conduct we’re delighted to welcome back much-loved Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka.

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Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble