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28 May 2026, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ NOW 2025-26 Season Seasons & Stories

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
Seasons & Stories
19:30 Thu 28 May 2026 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
Although less frequently performed that some of his other symphonies, Beethoven’s Second Symphony is a snapshot of Beethoven at his most humorous. Unpredictability and playfulness tally with a bold explosion of joy in this vividly contrasting symphony.
Although less frequently performed that some of his other symphonies, Beethoven’s Second Symphony is a snapshot of Beethoven at his most humorous. Unpredictability and playfulness tally with a bold explosion of joy in this vividly contrasting symphony.

Programme

ENTERTAINING | TUNEFUL | VIVACIOUS

Conductor PaweÅ‚ KapuÅ‚a brings a work from his native Poland to the stage of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hoddinott Hall as he makes his debut with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ NOW this May - Marta PtaszyÅ„ska takes the sounds of Vivaldi and transforms them into a new, almost surreal sound picture in A Winter’s Tale, written in 1984. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 New Generation Artist Sterling Elliott also debuts with the Orchestra in Schumann’s intensely lyrical and meditative Cello Concerto, and we explore Mendelssohn in cinematic fairytale form in his overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Although less frequently performed that some of his other symphonies, Beethoven’s Second Symphony is a snapshot of Beethoven at his most humorous. Unpredictability and playfulness tally with a bold explosion of joy in this vividly contrasting symphony.