National Youth Orchestra of Wales
Owain Arwel Hughes conductor

Arwel Hughes Prelude for Orchestra
Mahler Symphony No 1

‘The National Youth Orchestra of Wales is a wonderful shop window for Welsh talent and an opportunity for people to hear exactly what is being achieved musically in Wales’ (Owain Arwel Hughes)

This lunch is open to members of the Three Choirs Festival Society only: with guest speaker Adrian Partington, the artistic director of the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival.

The second in the series of four recitals by young organists selected by the Royal College of Organists following their final examinations in 2008.

Supported by Pat Hugill in memory of her late husband.

Supported by Mrs Angela Day

Take estranged twin brothers and estranged twin servants, keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery and you have the chief ingredients for theatrical chaos. With Shakespeare's Globe Touring Company.

Supported by Mr Jesse Norman

The  highly-acclaimed early music ensemble Stile Antico present Passion and Resurrection, a musical journey through the events of Holy Week.

Motets by Gibbons, Tallis, Morales, Cornysh, Taverner, Victoria and Byrd

John McCabe Woefully Arrayed (world premiere)

Three Cathedral Choirs
Adrian Partington conductor
Peter Dyke organ

Radcliffe Responses
Howells Hereford Service
Dove Ecce beatam lucem
Messiaen Joie et clarté des corps glorieux (Les corps glorieux)

Come and hear why the eminent Haydn scholar H C Robbins Landon wrote that ‘The Seasons occupies the unique position whereby everything in Haydn’s artistic life is summed up and, at the same time, the whole world of Berlioz and Wagner is opened to us.’

Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra and Geraint Bowen conductor

Late night, laid-back, groove-oriented jazz with Gwilym Bowen and his quartet.