2014-15 Swansea Concerts

Swansea Concerts • Cyngerdd Abertawe

Cerddorfa a Chorws Cenedlaethol Cymreig y BBC

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales

2014-15

WELCOME CROESO Brangwyn Hall has re-opened its doors! The Orchestra can’t wait to take their seats in the beautiful hall with its magnificent British Empire Panels adorning the walls.

We have a very exciting season in-store for audiences in Swansea and we hope you can join us! The first performances back at Brangwyn Hall will be part of the Swansea Festival of Music & the Arts.

‘Piano at the Brangwyn’ under the baton of Thomas Søndergård gets underway in February with Benjamin Grosvenor playing Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto.

There are also two opportunities to bring the whole family this season. In October the ever-popular Family Concert series comes to Swansea for the first time, followed by Christmas Celebrations in December.

See you at the Brangwyn!

Mae Neuadd Brangwyn wedi agor ei drysau drachefn! Mae’r Gerddorfa’n ysu am gael mynd i’w seddi yn y neuadd hardd a Phaneli godidog yr Ymerodraeth Brydeinig yn addurno’i pharwydydd.

Mae gennym dymor hynod o gyffrous yn aros cynulleidfaoedd yn Abertawe a gobeithio ˆ yl y gallwch chi ddod aton ni! Rhan o W Cerddoriaeth a’r Celfyddydau Abertawe fydd y perfformiadau cyntaf pan awn yn ein holau i Neuadd Brangwyn.

Mae ‘Piano yn y Brangwyn’ o dan faton Thomas Søndergård yn cychwyn ym mis Chwefror a Benjamin Grosvenor yn chwarae Concerto Piano Cyntaf Beethoven.

Y tymor yma mae yna ddau gyfle hefyd i ddod â’r teulu i gyd. Ym mis Hydref daw’r gyfres fythol-boblogaidd Cyngherddau Teulu i Abertawe am y tro cyntaf, wedyn Dathlu’r Nadolig ym mis Rhagfyr.

Welwn ni chi yn y Brangwyn!

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BBC PROMS IN THE PARK WITH BRYN TERFEL • PROMS YN Y PARC Y BBC GYDA BRYN TERFEL Saturday • Sadwrn 13.09.14, 7.45pm Singleton Park, Swansea • Parc Singleton, Abertawe Conductor • Arweinydd Tecwyn Evans BBC National Chorus of Wales • Corws Cenedlaethol Cymreig y BBC Dig out your flags, pack your picnic, and join us for an open-air concert celebrating the Last Night of the Proms! Grammy Awardwinning Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel will headline at this years event. Also appearing on the night is young singer-songwriter Casi from Bangor, who has been collaborating with BBC Cymru Wales and Arts Council of Wales as part of the Horizons music project.

The Welsh singing stars will perform with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, led by conductor Tecwyn Evans. The evening will culminate in the traditional sing-along; this year featuring a Mary Poppins medley.

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Tyrchwch eich fflagiau, pacio’ch picnic a dod aton ni i gyngerdd awyr agored i ddathlu Noson Ola’r Proms! Bryn Terfel, y bariton-bas o Gymro ac enillydd gwobr Grammy, fydd ar ben y rhaglen yn y digwyddiad eleni. Ar y noson gwelwn hefyd Casi, y canwr a chyfansoddwr caneuon ifanc o Fangor, a fu’n cydweithredu â BBC Cymru Wales a Chyngor Celfyddydau Cymru yn rhan o’r cywaith cerdd Gorwelion.

Bydd y sêr canu o Gymru yn perfformio gyda Cherddorfa a Chorws Cenedlaethol Cymreig y BBC, dan arweiniad Tecwyn Evans. Penllanw’r noson fydd y morio canu traddodiadol, eleni’n fedlai Mary Poppins.

SWANSEA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC & THE ARTS • GW ˆ YL ABERTAWE I GERDD A’R CELFYDDYDAU Brangwyn Hall, Swansea • Neuadd Brangwyn, Abertawe Saturday • Sadwrn 11.10.14, 7.30pm

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Richard Elfyn Jones Brangwyn Festival Overture for Organ & Orchestra • Agorawd Gw ˆ yl Brangwyn i Organ a Cherddorfa John Corigliano A Dylan Thomas Trilogy

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Conductor • Arweinydd Grant Llewellyn Baritone • Baritôn Roderick Williams Tenor Robin Tritschler Organ Thomas Trotter BBC National Chorus of Wales • Corws Cenedlaethol Cymreig y BBC Members of • Aelodau o BBC Singers Mae’r cyfansoddwr o Efrog Newydd, John Corigliano, wedi gosod tair o gerddi pwysicaf Dylan Thomas i adnoddau lleisiol a cherddorfaol mawr, gyda holl liw ac apêl ei sgoriau ffilm gwobredig. Mae agoriad Richard Elfyn Jones, hefyd, yn arddangos adnoddau llawn yr organ a’r gerddorfa.

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Friday • Gwener 17.10.14, 7pm

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New York composer John Corigliano has set three major poems by Dylan Thomas for large vocal and orchestral resources, with all the colour and appeal of his award-winning film scores. Richard Elfyn Jones’ overture, similarly, shows off the full resources of organ and orchestra.

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Introduced and conducted by • Arweinydd a chyflwynydd Grant Llewellyn Join the Orchestra for a whistle-stop tour of popular classics and music for TV and film, conducted by Grant Llewellyn. Come along from 6.15pm for pre-concert entertainment, including the chance to try out instruments from the orchestra.

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Ymunwch gyda’r Gerddorfa am wibdaith o glasuron poblogaidd, cerddoriaeth teledu a ffilm dan arweiniad Grant Llewellyn. Dewch o 6. 15 ymlaen i fwynhau adloniant cyncyngerdd, yn cynnwys siawns i dreio’ch llaw ar offerynnau’r gerddorfa.

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS • DATHLU’R NADOLIG Friday • Gwener 19.12.14, 7.30pm Brangwyn Hall, Swansea • Neuadd Brangwyn, Abertawe Conductor • Arweinydd Edwin Outwater Packed full of festive treats, enjoy highlights including Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride, music from the frost tale of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden and sing-along to all your Christmas favourites.

Treat your friends and family to an early Christmas present – sure to get you all into the Christmas mood. Come and join the celebrations!

Dyma noson yn heigio o bethau da, gan gynnwys Sleigh Ride Leroy Anderson, cerddoriaeth o hanes iasoer Y Forwyn Eira Rimsky-Korsakov a gewch chi forio canu eich holl ffefrynnau Nadolig.

Rhowch anrheg Nadolig cyn pryd i’ch ffrindiau a’ch teulu – gael i chi i gyd fynd i hwyliau’r Nadolig. Dewch heibio ac ymuno yn y miri!

Family Tickets £12.50 for 1 adult & up to 2 children £18 for 2 adults & up to 4 children

Tocynnau Teulu £12.50 am 1 oedolyn a hyd at 2 o blant £18 am 2 oedolyn a hyd at 4 o blant

Enjoy Christmas music and entertainment Cael blas ar gerddoriaeth a difyrrwch Nadolig

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BEETHOVEN & MOZART Wednesday • Mercher 4.2.15, 7.30pm Brangwyn Hall, Swansea • Neuadd Brangwyn, Abertawe

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Conductor • Arweinydd Thomas Søndergård Piano Benjamin Grosvenor

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Haydn Symphony No 28 • Symffoni Rhif 28 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 • Concerto Piano Rhif 1 Mozart Symphony No 41 • Symffoni Rhif 41 ‘Jupiter’

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Young British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has been dazzling audiences worldwide since his appearance on BBC Young Musician in 2004, when he was just eleven. We welcome him back to Swansea for his first collaboration with Thomas Søndergård, and a performance of Beethoven’s first piano concerto.

Byth ers iddo ymddangos ar Cerddor Ifanc y BBC yn 2004, pan oedd yn ddim ond un mlwydd ar ddeg, mae’r pianydd ifanc o Brydain Benjamin Grosvenor yn syfrdanu cynulleidfaoedd drwy’r byd yn grwn. Estynnwn groeso’n ôl iddo i Abertawe i gydweithio â Thomas Søndergård am y tro cyntaf mewn perfformiad o concerto piano cyntaf Beethoven.

6.30pm Talk: In the words of BBC NOW players Sgwrs: Yng ngeiriau chwaraewyr Cerddorfa'r BBC yng Nghymru

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I’m particularly looking forward to this concert, which has a truly classical air, with Haydn’s Symphony No 28 and Mozart’s Symphony No 41, ‘Jupiter’.

Thomas Søndergård Rwy’n edrych ymlaen yn arbennig at y cyngerdd yma, ac iddo naws wirioneddol glasurol, ac ynddo Symffoni Rhif 28 Haydn a Symffoni Rhif 41 Mozart, ‘Jupiter’.

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TCHAIKOVSKY & SHOSTAKOVICH Tchaikovsky Concerto for Piano No 1 • Concerto Piano Rhif 1 Shostakovich Symphony No 10 • Symffoni Rhif 10

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Thursday • Iau 12.3.15, 7.30pm Brangwyn Hall, Swansea • Neuadd Brangwyn, Abertawe

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Conductor • Arweinydd Thomas Søndergård Piano Igor Levit For the second concert in our piano series, we welcome Igor Levit for Tchaikovsky’s thrillingly romantic first piano concerto. Little did Tchaikovsky know, when composing its recognisable opening chords, that he’d created a work that would become the first classical song to sell a million records.

Hear it alongside Shostakovich's tenth symphony, widely considered to depict Stalin's rule of Russia.

Ar ail noson ein cyfres piano, rhown groeso i Igor Levit ar gyfer concerto piano cyntaf gwefreiddiol o ramantaidd Tchaikovsky.

Bychan a wyddai Tchaikovsky, pan oedd yn sgrifennu ei gordiau agoriadol trawiadol, iddo greu gwaith a ddeuai’r gân glasurol gyntaf i werthu miliwn o recordiau.

Fe’i clywch ochr yn ochr â degfed symffoni Shostakovich, y mae llawer yn tybio ei bod yn darlunio teyrnasiad Stalin dros Rwsia.

6.30pm Talk: In the words of BBC NOW players Sgwrs: Yng ngeiriau chwaraewyr Cerddorfa'r BBC yng Nghymru

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THE PLANETS Friday • Gwener 17.4.15, 7.30pm Brangwyn Hall, Swansea • Neuadd Brangwyn, Abertawe Finzi Clarinet Concerto • Concerto Clarinét Holst The Planets Conductor • Arweinydd Martyn Brabbins Clarinet • Clarinét Robert Plane BBC National Chorus of Wales • Corws Cenedlaethol Cymreig y BBC Undoubtedly Holst’s most popular work, his evocative and powerful Planets suite depicts the characteristics of Earth’s neighbours in the solar system. It’s paired with Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto, a soulful and virtuosic work performed by the Orchestra’s Principal Clarinet Robert Plane.

Does dim dwywaith nad The Planets ydi gwaith mwyaf poblogaidd Holst, yn gyfres fywiog a grymus sy’n tynnu llun priodoleddau cymdogion y Ddaear yn y gyfundrefn heulog. Mae’n gymar Concerto Clarinét Finzi, gwaith eneidfawr a phencampwriaethol a berfformir gan Brif Ganwr Clarinét y Gerddorfa Robert Plane.

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6.30pm Astronomical Extravaganza: Explore the stars with BBC NOW Strafagansa Seryddol: Fforiwch y sêr yng nghwmni Cerddorfa'r BBC yng Nghymru

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VIVE LA SWANSEA • VIVE L’ABERTAWE Friday • Gwener 15.5.15, 7.30pm Brangwyn Hall, Swansea • Neuadd Brangwyn, Abertawe

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Ravel Boléro Lalo Symphonie Espagnole Saint-Saëns Symphony No 3 • Symffoni Rhif 3 ‘Organ’

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Conductor • Arweinydd Xian Zhang Violin • Ffidil Chloë Hanslip Organ Thomas Trotter Exceptional young violinist Chloë Hanslip returns to the Orchestra alongside conductor Xian Zhang, as we take a musical journey through France, with a hint of Spanish influence.

Daw’r ffidler ifanc eithriadol Chloë Hanslip yn ei hôl at y Gerddorfa ochr yn ochr â’r arweinydd Xian Zhang pan awn ar daith gerddorol drwy Ffrainc ac arni arlliw o ddylanwad Sbaen.

Ravel’s Boléro sets the scene perfectly, with its stirring rhythms and atmospheric melody.

Chloë will take to the platform for Edouard Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole and we finish with Saint-Saëns's third symphony. On the composition of his third symphony Saint-Saëns proclaimed “what I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again”, anticipating his final journey into the symphonic form, and one which encapsulated all that he was as a musician, most notably with his addition of the organ to composition.

Mae Boléro Ravel a’i rythmau gwefreiddiol a’i alaw llawn awyrgylch yn creu’r olygfa i’r dim.

Chloë fydd ar lwyfan yn Symphonie Espagnole Edouard Lalo a down I ben yn nhrydedd symffoni Saint-Saëns. Pan gyfansoddodd ei drydedd symffoni meddai Saint-Saëns ar goedd “ni chyflawnaf fyth eto’r hyn a gyflawnais yma”, yn argoeli ei hynt olaf yn y ffurf symffonig, hynt a grynhodd ei holl hanfod fel cerddor, yn anad dim ychwanegu’r organ at y cyfansoddiad.

6.30pm Talk: In the words of BBC NOW players Sgwrs: Yng ngeiriau chwaraewyr Cerddorfa'r BBC yng Nghymru

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Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 • Concerto Piano Rhif 3 Bruckner Symphony No 8 • Symffoni Rhif 8

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Friday • Gwener 12.6.15, 7.30pm Brangwyn Hall, Swansea • Neuadd Brangwyn, Abertawe

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Conductor • Arweinydd Thomas Søndergård Piano Stephen Hough The exhilarating Stephen Hough returns to the Brangwyn Hall for our season finale, alongside Beethoven’s third piano concerto – one of Thomas Søndergård’s favourite works. Stephen’s performances have gained a glowing reputation for brilliance and elegance, and we eagerly await his visit.

We complete the season with Bruckner’s intense final symphony, his eighth. Bruckner didn’t live to complete his ninth symphony, but in his intense and tumultuous eighth he wrote some of his most breathtaking music.

6.30pm Pre-concert talk Sgwrs cyn y cyngerdd

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Fel chwa o awyr iach daw Stephen Hough yn ei ôl i Neuadd Brangwyn at ddiweddglo ein tymor, yn nhrydydd concerto piano Beethoven – un o hoff weithiau Thomas Søndergård. Mae canmol mawr ar Stephen am draddodi perfformiadau disglair a chain ac edrychwn ymlaen yn frwd at ei ymweliad.

Terfynwn y tymor â Symffoni olaf ddwys Bruckner, ei wythfed. Ni fu fyw Bruckner I gwblhau ei nawfed symffoni, ond yn ei wythfed ddwys a therfysglyd sgrifennodd beth o’i gerddoriaeth fwyaf syfrdanol.

BOOKING INFORMATION

GWYBODAETH AM GODI TOCYNNAU

Call the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Audience Line FREE on 0800 052 1812

Rhowch ganiad i Linell Cynulleidfaoedd Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC AM DDIM ar 0800 052 1812

No fees apply to tickets bought through the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Audience Line.

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Tickets £10-16

Tocynnau £10-16

Tickets £12-20, Students £6-10

Tocynnau £12-20, Myfyrwyr £6-10

Tickets £15, Family Tickets from £12.50

Tocynnau £15, Tocynnau Teulu o £12.50

Swansea Grand Theatre applies a Booking Fee of £2.50 per online transaction. Tickets paid for by credit card are subject to a 2% Credit Card Fee. No fee applies to tickets bought in person and paid for by debit card, cheque or cash.

Mae Theatr y Grand Abertawe yn codi Tâl Archebu o £2.50 y pryniant ar lein. Mae Tâl Cardiau Credyd o 2% am docynnau y talir amdanynt â cherdyn credyd. Does dim tâl am docynnau a godir yn bersonol ac y talir amdanynt â cherdyn debyd, siec neu arian parod.

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Tickets £10 in advance, £14 on the day Children aged 12 and under go free

Tocynnau £10 ymlaen llaw, £14 ar y diwrnod Plant 12 oed ac iau yn cael mynd am ddim

Discover More This season we introduce Discover More to our concerts, a series of talks, events, open rehearsals and more, all designed to get you closer to the music.

All Discover More events are free for concert ticket holders, just call the Audience Line to reserve your space on 0800 052 1812.

Darganfod Mwy Y tymor yma byddwn yn cyflwyno Darganfod Mwy i’n cyngherddau, cyfres o sgyrsiau, digwyddiadau, ymarferion agored a mwy, i gyd wedi’u llunio er mwyn i chi glosio at y gerddoriaeth.

Mae digwyddiadau Darganfod Mwy am ddim i ddeiliaid tocynnau cyngherddau, does rhaid i chi ond rhoi caniad i’r Llinell Cynulleidfaoedd ar 0800 052 1812 i gadw’ch lle.

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2014-15 Season • Tymor Sat • Sad 13.09.14

7.45pm

BBC Proms in the Park • Proms yn y Parc y BBC

Singleton Park • Parc Singleton

Sat • Sad 11.10.14

7.30pm

Swansea Festival • Gwˆ yl Abertawe

Brangwyn Hall • Neuadd Brangwyn

Fri • Gwe 17.10.14

7pm

Family Concert • Cyngerdd Teulu

Brangwyn Hall • Neuadd Brangwyn

Fri • Gwe 19.12.14

7.30pm

Christmas Celebrations • Dathlu’r Nadolig

Brangwyn Hall • Neuadd Brangwyn

Wed • Mer 04.02.15

7.30pm

Beethoven & Mozart

Brangwyn Hall • Neuadd Brangwyn

Thu • Iau 12.03.15

7.30pm

Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich

Brangwyn Hall • Neuadd Brangwyn

Fri • Gwe 17.04.15

7.30pm

The Planets

Brangwyn Hall • Neuadd Brangwyn

Fri • Gwe 15.05.15

7.30pm

Vive La Swansea • Vive L’Abertawe

Brangwyn Hall • Neuadd Brangwyn

Fri • Gwe 12.06.15

7.30pm

Beethoven & Bruckner

Brangwyn Hall • Neuadd Brangwyn

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BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5AL Cerddorfa a Chorws Cenedlaethol Cymreig y BBC, Neuadd Hoddinott y BBC, Bae Caerdydd, CF10 5AL