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23 May 2026, St Davids Cathedral
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Âé¶¹Éç NOW 2025-26 Season St Davids Cathedral Festival

Âé¶¹Éç National Orchestra of Wales
St Davids Cathedral Festival
19:00 Sat 23 May 2026 St Davids Cathedral
The ever-popular Martyn Brabbins returns to Âé¶¹Éç NOW this May as we travel to St Davids for the annual Cathedral Festival.
The ever-popular Martyn Brabbins returns to Âé¶¹Éç NOW this May as we travel to St Davids for the annual Cathedral Festival.

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ENERGETIC | IMPACTFUL | HEROIC

The ever-popular Martyn Brabbins returns to Âé¶¹Éç NOW this May as we travel to St Davids for the annual Cathedral Festival.

Written for the 1898 Three Choirs Festival, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade brims with inventiveness and explosive energy. Ivan Karizna debuts with Âé¶¹Éç NOW in Huw Watkins’ Cello Concerto – wonderful expressivity and deeply lyrical tunes encapsulate a mercurial scherzo in this work written for his brother and Âé¶¹Éç NOW during his years as the Orchestra’s Composer-in-Association – and we explore Beethoven as he transitions from the Classical to Romantic eras in his ‘Eroica’ Symphony. From its thundering opening chords to its epic scale and emotional impact, Beethoven’s Third Symphony was grander and more dramatic than audiences were accustomed to at the time of its premiere, but this masterstroke, inspired by the heroic Napoleon Bonaparte, remains one of his most celebrated works, full of energy and drama.

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