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Rhagolwg PREVIEW | RHAGOLWG © Peter Reynolds The composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth Century Baroque valued their ability to compose music that could tug at the heart-strings. It was said that few in the audience did not shed a few tears on hearing Monterverdi’s famous Lamento dArianna. The same might be said of Dido’s famous lament with which Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas ends. Similarly, eighteenth Century audiences, unused to expressive bitter-sweet and sensual sacred choral music, quickly warmed to Pergolesi’s intensely personal Stabat Mater. Both composers died young: Purcell at thirty-six and Pergolesi at just twenty-five. St David’s Hall audiences can experience these two Baroque masterpieces on Tuesday 20 October when the Armonico Consort, directed by Christopher Monks, return. There is a superb line-up of soloists to whet the appetite: soprano Elin Manahan Thomas takes the role of Dido and sings in the Stabat Mater and tenor Alexander Aldren takes the role of Aeneas. In Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, they are joined by countertenor Williams Towers. The next Orchestral Concert is at 6.30pm and a short post-concert recital starting around ten minutes after the main concert ends. CARDIFF PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA The first of this season’s concerts by the Cardiff Philharmonie Orchestra, under the baton of Michael Bell, on Friday 16 October features star Euphonium player David Childs in Karl Jenkins’s populär Euphonium Concerto. The concert also includes Rossini’s William Teil Overture and Dvordk’s New World Symphony. CONTEMPORARY SATURDAYS If you fancy something a little different, then why not try one of Contemporary Lunchtime Concerts on Saturday 24 October? The Piatti String Quartet explore the amazing new sound world that today’s composers are conjuring from the 250-year-old string quartet. Just arrive by 1pm and pay whatever you feel is appropriate. LUNCHTIME CONCERTS Tuesday lunchtime concerts are now in full swing and on 13 October pianist Ivan Ilie returns to Cardiff with a on Wednesday 4 November when Vladimir Ashkenazy returns to conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra with soloist Ingolf Wunder in Chopin’s First Piano Concerto. This season includes a spotlight on Rachmaninov whose glorious Second Symphony concludes the concert. And don’t forget that each concert in the International Concert Season now includes a pre-concert talk Programme marking the anniversary Scriabin’s death. You can hear his Chopinesque Twenty-four Preludes as well as music by Chopin and a premiere by one of Wales’s leading composers: John Metcalf's Chant. Violinist Benjamin Baker and pianist Jonathan Ware give the following lunchtime concert on 20 October with music by Schubert and Elgar. Both concerts begin at Ipm.