Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto plus new music from Wales

Ligeti's Chamber Concerto & New Music From Wales

“It’s good to hear new music with a sense of harmony, of complexity resolving into simplicity.” *****

Stephen Walsh, The Arts Desk

“Under conductor and artistic director Michael Rafferty, their presentation of György Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto – a piece described by the composer as one for 13 concertante soloists – underlined just what a dynamic force they have become.” ****

Rian Evans, The Guardian

UPROAR’s ensemble of 16 virtuoso soloists continues to push the boundaries of new classical music from Wales.

This is vibrant 90-minute programme where you get hear the most exciting voices in new classical music in Wales, alongside work by well-known international composers, whose music is rarely performed here.

The Chamber Concerto by Ligeti (whose music is well known from the films 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Shining) gets its Welsh Premiere, as does Hrím by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, a potent evocation of elemental power specially created to accompany the Chamber Concerto.

For our new Welsh commissions, Litang Shao explores the sounds, energies and emotions evoked by the unpredictable nature of the sea, incorporating the musical elements and flavour of traditional Chinese music. RWCMD graduate Ashley John Long captures the echoes and whispers of the rolling hillsides of the Welsh landscape. And in contrast, David John Roche takes inspiration from the heavy metal and rock scene in the Welsh Valleys as he was growing up.

Welsh Premieres

Ligeti - Chamber Concerto

Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Hrím

New Commissions

Ashley John Long - Imagin’d Games

Litang Shao - Floating Theatre

David John Roche - Harm Reduction

DATES:

Aberystwyth Arts Centre

7 March 2025

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama,
Cardiff

13 March 2025, 7.30pm