Ceòl Ralph Vaughan Williams aig BBC National Orchestra of Wales

From the serenity of Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, the programme moves to Cameron Biles-Liddell’s gritty new Harp Concerto, before closing with Beethoven’s joyful Pastoral Symphony, a richly illustrative celebration of nature and landscape.

Marking 60 years since Aberfan, this concert centres on Paul Mealor’s new requiem From Darkness into Light, joining massed Welsh forces in remembrance, framed by music moving from urgency to hope by Clyne, Haydn, Mozart and Vaughan Williams.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

War and peace meet in music of remembrance and journey. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin shimmers with colour, Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, sung by Steffan Lloyd Owen, turn inward and Sibelius’s First Symphony drives north with urgency and force.

Ceremony, mystery and vision meet under Martin Yeates. Parry’s I Was Glad opens in jubilant splendour, Elgar’s Enigma Variations explore affection and introspection, and Vaughan Williams’s The Future crowns the evening with Lucy Crowe as soloist.