BBC NOW: War and Peace in Aberystwyth
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Venue: Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, WAL
Performer: BBC NOW: War and Peace
War and peace meet in music of remembrance, journeying, and hard won joy. Ravel opens with Le Tombeau de Couperin, his 1917 suite reimagined for orchestra: Baroque dance forms refracted through glittering colour, sudden shifts of light and delicately layered sound. Vaughan Williams then turns inward with Songs of Travel, sung here by baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen, tales of the wanderer shaped by folk song and hymn-like warmth. The journey then turns north with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1 in E minor, a work that announces the arrival of a distinctive symphonic voice. Premiered in 1899, its…