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Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft takes to the podium for his final concert in the title role as we draw our 2025-26 Season to a close, starting with Stravinsky’s symphonic poem Song of the Nightingale.

Principal Conductor Ryan Bancroft takes to the podium for his final concert in the title role as we draw our 2025-26 Season to a close, starting with Stravinsky’s symphonic poem Song of the Nightingale.

Inspired by the Italian sun and hearty dances he played with his Hungarian violinist friend in his youth, Brahms’ gloriously lyrical Violin Concerto seems to express the very soul of the violin.

With its inspiration taken from the runes of the Kalevala, Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Suite is drenched in Finnish adventure. Originally conceived as a mythological opera, the resulting symphonic poems are nothing short of entrancing.

Finland meets the French Horns as we travel to Aberystwyth and Bangor this November as French Horn superstar Ben Goldscheider joins us on the road for two concertos, those of Huw Watkins and Mozart.

Finland meets the French Horns as we travel to Aberystwyth this November as French Horn superstar Ben Goldscheider joins us on the road for two concertos, those of Huw Watkins and Mozart.

Fifty years after his death we celebrate the mastery of Shostakovich in a concert featuring his Violin Concerto and the mighty Seventh Symphony under the baton of our much-loved Principal Conductor, Ryan Bancroft.

Former ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Benjamin Grosvenor performs Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales, before Shostakovich’s deeply poignant memorial to Jewish suffering, the Symphony No. 13

Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 is performed by the combined forces of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestre National de Bretagne, CBSO Children’s Chorus and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Chorus of Wales, with mezzo-soprano soloist Beth Taylor

If historically serenades were intended as music for entertainment, then Brahms has most definitely excelled in his Serenade No. 2.

Dark drama contrasts outright giddiness in Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony, demonstrating kaleidoscopic variation at its most vivid.

Dark drama contrasts outright giddiness in Shostakovich’s Sixth Symphony, demonstrating kaleidoscopic variation at its most vivid.