25.20.26 Aberfan 60

15:00, Sunday 25 October 2026

BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Timothy Redmond, conductor

Mark Lewis Jones, narrator

Ynysowen Primary School & Ysgol Gymraeg Rhyd Y Grug Combined Choirs

Ynysowen Male Voice Choir

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Grahame Davies, Librettist/WriterProgramme

Anna Clyne: This Moment

Joseph Haydn: Movement 1 Symphony No.44 ‘Mourning’

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 'Andante Cantabile' from Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region

Paul Mealor: Aberfan: From Darkness to Light

Marking the 60 years since the Aberfan disaster, this concert is anchored by Paul Mealor’s newly commissioned From Darkness into Light: a concert requiem for hope with words by Grahame Davies, bringing together Mark Lewis Jones, Aberfan Schools Choirs, Ynysowen Male Voice Choir, and the BBC National Chorus of Wales in an act of remembrance.

Framing this centrepiece is music that moves from urgency to hope: Anna Clyne’s This Moment flashes with restless energy; Haydn’s E minor “Mourning” Symphony (No. 44) drives forward with fierce intensity; Mozart offers weight and luminous calm in the Andante cantabile from the “Jupiter”; and Vaughan Williams’ Whitman-inspired Toward the Unknown Region sets out on a searching journey towards the horizon.

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