Reviews

We would just like to say how much we appreciated and enjoyed the concert in St Michael’s yesterday evening.  We thought it was one of the best we had been too. The two soloists in the Mozart were really splendid, it was quite a magical performance.  The Haydn came across reallywell too, the tympanist and lead… [Continue Reading]

Abergavenny Chronicle article: Elf-led orchestra brings Christmas joy

“This young virtuoso was astonishing.  The whole concert was a huge success, a wonderful programme of music.  We are blessed to have such a superb Orchestra in Abergavenny.” “My family and I attended your concert on Sunday.  We have lived in the area for some time now but it was the first of your concerts… [Continue Reading]

The splendid concert given by Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra, under their conductor Michael Bell at Our Lady & St Michael’s RC Church, Abergavenny, in a stimulating and well-contrasted programme, had as its undoubted highlight a thrilling rendering of Elgar’s Cello Concerto from Welsh National Opera’s principal cellist Rosie Biss. This was simply the most powerful and… [Continue Reading]

Last Sunday, Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra chose to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams by featuring contributions from musicians directly associated with it. Principle trombonist Iestyn Harding is also an accomplished composer, and his stimulating tone-poem, Song at the Year’s Turning, received its première alongside a spellbinding rendering of V.W.’s sublime… [Continue Reading]

Superb first spring concert in over two years Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra returned to full complement with a performance of the Dvorak 8th Symphony which was not only played with considerable panache and technical accomplishment but, under conductor Michael Bell, caught the genuine Slavonic lilt essential to this most sheerly Czech of the composer’s symphonies. It… [Continue Reading]