Fishguard Music Festival – Smetana & Brahms with Welsh National Orchestra
Overview
Experience an evening of soaring melodies, rich emotion and symphonic power as Music Director Tomáš Hanus conducts his final concert with WNO Orchestra and Welsh baritone, Steffan Lloyd Owen.
A fitting farewell, this programme journeys through the heart of Central Europe, from the vivid landscapes of Smetana's Má vlast to the nostalgic beauty of Butterworth's Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, before culminating in Brahms' magnificent Fourth Symphony – a work of profound intensity and breathtaking grandeur.
Whether you're celebrating Tomáš's remarkable tenure or simply discovering these masterworks for the first time, this promises to be a truly memorable evening.
Programme
Smetana – Má vlast: 'Šárka'
Smetana – Má vlast: 'From Bohemia's Woods and Fields'
Butterworth – Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad
Interval
Brahms – Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98