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Based on folk tunes and featuring the lullaby Huna Blentyn at its heart, Welsh composer Grace Williams’ Hen Walia kicks off our performance at this years North Wales International Music Festival.

We discover the music of HRH Prince Albert in his Liederkreis, written to be performed at Windsor Castle and orchestrated here by renowned Welsh composer Paul Mealor, and delve into one of the most famous works by Felix Mendelssohn, his Hebrides Overture – full of rising and falling dynamics, subtle harmonic shifts and a kaleidoscope of instrumental colour, the music is a stunning depiction of both the sea, the Hebrides and Fingal’s Cave – before launching into possibly the most famous opening of any piece of classical music, that of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Driving rhythms combine with drama, darkness and brilliance in this showcase of a symphony.