BBC Proms 2018
Proms Plus Talk
Rhian Davies
Imperial College Union
Friday, 20 July 2018
17.45
Free entrance
Artistic Director of the Gregynog Festival, Rhian Davies, discusses the life and music of Morfydd Owen ahead of the first performance of her music at the BBC Proms since 1917.
Prom 8: Youthful Beginnings
Featuring: Morfydd Owen – Nocturne (1913) Excerpt
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård, conductor
Royal Albert Hall
Friday, 20 July 2018
19.30
Tickets £7.50 – £41
Mendelssohn’s precocious First Piano Concerto joins Schumann’s forward-looking Fourth Symphony and music by Lili Boulanger and Morfydd Owen – both of whom died tragically young – in the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s first Prom of the season.
The concert will be live on BBC Radio 3 and shown on BBC Four television on 22 July.