BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 2 November
Composed in the mid-1950s, Grace Williams’s pithy Symphony No. 2 concludes the first concert in a BBC NOW series shining a spotlight on women composers and emerging Welsh talent. Emilie Godden conducts the premiere of Sarah Lianne Lewis’s The Sky Didn’t Fall before passing the baton over to Martyn Brabbins for a suite from Saariaho’s 2008 opera Emilie.
Music at Tresanton
Methodist Chapel, St Mawes, 3-5 November
Pianist Noam Greenberg’s Cornish chamberfest is no stranger to the pursuit of a single composer. Schumann’s Op. 39 Liederkreis aside, Brahms supplies this year’s focus, from sonatas and trios to the mighty F minor Piano Quintet – a focus abetted by soprano Ruby Hughes and the Gringolts Quartet.
Ulster Orchestra
Ulster Hall, Belfast, 3 November
Webern’s thematically forensic reimagination of the six-part Ricercar from Bach’s complements Mozart’s genial Piano Concerto
