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Radio 3 in Concert: BBC NOW perform Grace Williams and Strauss in Cardiff

BBC NOW perform Grace Williams and Strauss in Cardiff

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, BBC NOW perform Grace Williams and Strauss in Cardiff

Ryan Bancroft conducts Don Quixote, Williams's Concert Overture and Mozart's 39th Symphony

Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Grace Williams's Concert Overture, Mozart's 39th Symphony and Strauss's tone poem Don Quixote, live in Cardiff.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their principal conductor, Ryan Bancroft, perform the last concert of the orchestra's season, with a vivacious programme of Grace Williams, Mozart, and Richard Strauss.  Williams's Concert Overture is an early work, which she wrote following her return from studying with Egon Wellesz in Vienna, a product of winning the highly prestigious Octavia Travelling Scholarship from the Royal College of Music.  Mozart's 39th symphony is the first of his great last symphonies, and is also the most outlandish, often being favourably compared with Haydn's symphonic writing.  It's a fervently energetic work, which perfectly complements the vitality of the other works on the programme. Strauss took inspiration from the epic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes for his tone poem of the same name, in which a Spanish nobleman convinces himself that he is a knight-errant.  Strauss loads the work with all the humour from the novel, and gives the title character to the solo cello, while his squire, Sancho Panza, is taken by the solo viola, performed tonight by principal cello Alice Neary, and principal viola Rebecca Jones.

Presented by Ian Skelly, live from St. David's Hall in Cardiff.

7.30pm
Grace Williams: Concert Overture
Mozart: Symphony No 39 in E flat major, K 543

8.15pm
Interval music

8.35pm
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op 35

Rebecca Jones (viola)
Alice Neary (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft (conductor)

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