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Friday 24 June 8pm
The Welsh Sinfonia

St. Michael’s Church, Lower Machen

The Welsh Sinfonia
Daniel de Gruchy-Lambert (Trumpet)
Francesca Kay (Narrator)
Keith Ellerington (Conductor)

The First Dragon was composed by Mervyn Burtch and written by Francesca Kay as a companion piece to Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and has already received many enthusiastic performances throughout Wales by audiences from eight to eighty. Narrated here by its author, it shares a programme with imperishable music by Haydn, Rossini and Mozart together with three vivid and colourful snapshots of Welsh landscapes by Christopher Painter.

Still in his teens, Daniel de Gruchy-Lambert is one of the most outstanding instrumentalists to have emerged from Wales in recent years and will be the soloist in Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with the well-known Welsh Sinfonia.

Rossini Overture, The Italian Girl in Algiers (8’)
Haydn Trumpet Concerto (25’)
Christopher Painter Postcards (8’)
Mervyn Burtch The First Dragon (20’)
Mozart Symphony No.35 (Haffner) (20’)

 

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