A celebration of Britain’s land- and sea-scapes. Hear the soaring flight of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending as well as the many moods of the North Sea as it meets Suffolk shingle in Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from ‘Peter Grimes’.

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Great British Classics

Royal Albert Hall

Summer Soirée in Abergavenny

Our Lady and St. Michael’s R.C. Church

A Summer Celebration with Alis Huws

St Elli Church

We return to our residency at the Three Choirs Festival for the opening weekend of the 2025 festival in Hereford.

Mathias’s glorious This Worlde’s Joie is the highlight of this year’s opening evening concert. Joyful and exuberant, this colourful work, full of uplifting voices and chiming bells, is paired with Dvořák’s Te Deum, an electrifying and ecstatic hymn of praise.

Three Choirs Festival: This Worlde’s Joie

Hereford Cathedral

WCO with Alis Huws

The Methodist Church Welshpool

A Summer’s Evening with Alis Huws

Wyeside Arts Centre

Cameron Biles-Liddell’s Yr Afon Yn Yr Awyr, inspired by the Pontcysyllte aqueduct, explores the movement of water, from the flowing to the dancelike, the wild and energetic to the playful; before Welsh pianist Ellis Thomas joins BBC NOW to perform William Mathias’ First Piano Concerto in what would have been his 90th birthday year.

North Wales International Music Festival

St Asaph Cathedral

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.

Enigma Variations

Wales Millennium Centre

Brangwyn Hall

We celebrate 90 years since William Mathias’ birth with his Holiday Overture, written in 1971 specially for BBC NOW. We then move on to Karl Jenkins and the UK Premiere of his saxophone concerto, Stravaganza, written for tonight’s soloist, the sensational Jess Gillam. It wouldn’t be St David’s Day without any singing, so BBC National Chorus of Wales and the National Youth Choir of Wales take centre stage in Jenkins’ Dewi Sant, and a medley of your favourite Welsh tunes.

St David's Day Stravaganza

Carols at Christmas

Saffron Hall

William Mathias

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 6, 2025

Carols at Christmas · City of London Sinfonia

Past events

Aug 5, 2025

Great British Classics · BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Aug 1, 2025

Summer Soirée in Abergavenny · Welsh Chamber Orchestra

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