2022 Cowbridge Music Festival - Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Mozart

Nicola Heywood-Thomas presents a selection of highlights from the 2022 Cowbridge Music Festival, set in the ancient market town of Cowbridge within the Vale of Glamorgan. The concert begins with the pianist Llŷr Williams performing three works from Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, including the famous Wedding-Day at Troldhaugen. After this, we journey from Norway to Russia, with a depiction of a rural scene by Tchaikovsky, in his Dumka which he composed in 1885. The concert ends where this week of lunchtime concerts began, with music by Mozart, as the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective perform his sunny Piano Quartet No 2 which is full of lyrical melodies passed between the various instruments.

Grieg: From Early Years, Op 65 No 1 (Lyric Pieces)
Grieg: Peasant’s Song, Op 65 No 2 (Lyric Pieces)
Grieg: Wedding-Day at Troldhaugen, Op 65 No 6 (Lyric Pieces)
Llŷr Williams, piano

Tchaikovsky: Dumka, Op 59
Llŷr Williams, piano

Mozart: Piano Quartet No 2 in E flat, K493
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Elena Urioste, violin
Rosalind Ventris, viola
Laura van der Heijden, cello
Tom Poster, piano

Produced by Luke Whitlock