Saturday 24 May
11.00am Coffee Concert: Choristers Unplugged
The Cathedral Choristers ditch the cassocks and present a programme of their favourite popular and musical theatre songs. One not to be missed! Tickets £10 unreserved. U18s go free
https://stdavidscathedral.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173662462
11.00am Cyngerdd Coffi: Coryddion yn ymollwng
Bydd Coryddion yr Eglwys Gadeiriol yn cefnu ar eu casogau ac yn cyflwyno rhaglenni o'u hoff ganeuon poblogaidd a'u ffefrynnau o fyd sioeau cerdd. Un na ddylid ei golli!
Tocynnau £10 heb eu cadw.
Plant dan 18 oed yn am ddim
Dydd Sadwrn 24 Mai - Saturday 24 May, 4.00 pm
Tŷ’r Pererin Education Centre
Talk: Quentin Letts, ‘Nunc!’
Author and sketch writer Quentin Letts presents a talk on his new book, ‘Nunc!’:
Jerusalem is ruled by rosemary-scented King Herod. By the bougainvillea in Deuteronomy Square, Reuben’s tea stall keeps customers sweet with lemon koloochehs. Onesimus the green-grocer piles his polished pears and pineapples in ziggurats, blind harpist Tabitha captivates bachelor Pharisees, Roman sentries doze; and the widower Simeon, beset by gout and befriended by a dog called Shlomo, watches the passing promenade. By day he dodges bossy superintendent Kedar. By starlit night he contemplates lost loves and the visits of a bad-tempered angel.
Quentin Letts’s delightful tales bring 1st century Jerusalem to quirky life and show how the prophet Simeon, whose Nunc dimittis became one of the great canticles of Christendom, can help an ailing 21st century Englishman come to terms with his fate.
The talk includes performances of different settings of the Nunc dimittis by our Choral Scholars.
Signed copies of Nunc! are available to purchase following
today’s talk from St Davids Bookshop in the hall.
7.00pm BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Kristian Sallinen Conductor
Claire Barnett-Jones Mezzo-Soprano
Williams Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Elgar Sea Pictures
Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor ‘From the New World’
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales return for their annual performance at the Festival. Conductor Kristian Sallinen leads the orchestra in Grace Williams’ ‘Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes’, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World finalist Claire Barnett-Jones joins the orchestra for Elgar’s song cycle ‘Sea Pictures’, and the programme concludes with a staple of the classical repertoire, Dvořák’s ‘New World’ Symphony. This annual performance is one of the highlights of every Festival programme, and this year’s promises to be no different.
Tickets £30, £25, £15. U18s go free.
https://stdavidscathedral.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173662403
7.00pm Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC
Kristian Sallinen Arweinydd
Claire Barnett-Jones Mezzo-soprano
Williams Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes
Elgar Sea Pictures
Dvořák Symffoni Rhif 9 yn E leiaf 'O'r Byd Newydd'
Mae Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC yn dychwelyd ar gyfer eu perfformiad blynyddol yn yr Ŵyl. Kristian Sallinen sy'n arwain y gerddorfa yn 'Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes' Grace Williams, mae Claire Barnett-Jones, un o gystadleuwyr rownd derfynol Canwr y Byd Caerdydd, yn ymuno â'r gerddorfa i berfformio'r cylch o ganeuon 'Sea Pictures'gan Elgar, ac mae'r rhaglen yn gorffen gydag un o ffefrynnau'r repertoire clasurol, sef Symffoni 'O'r Byd Newydd' Dvořák. Mae'r perfformiad blynyddol hwn yn un o uchafbwyntiau pob rhaglen yr Ŵyl, ac mae'n argoeli na fydd y perfformiad eleni'n eithriad i hynny.
Tocynnau £30, £25, £15. Plant dan 18 oed am ddim.
