A Night at the Movies

Saturday 7th March 2026 7.30pm

  Neuadd y Gwendraeth, Llanelli, SA14 7AG

Michael Bell MBE Conductor

 CPO is delighted to playing 'A Night at the Movies'

in Gwendraeth Hall, Llanelli

Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra brings to Llanelli a programme of great music from the movies, introduced and conducted by Neath-born conductor

Michael Bell MBE.
Themes from blockbusters such as Star Wars, Ben-Hur and Spartacus; the animated classics How to train your Dragon, Chicken Run and The Polar Express; Hollywood musicals Chicago and The Sound of Music (60th anniversary of the film), not forgetting the much-loved E.T.

A perfect concert for the whole family.

Tickets now on sale here

Please note that seating at Neuadd y Gwendraeth, Llanelli is unreserved.

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Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra

Saturday 21st March 2026 7.30pm

Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff

Michael Bell MBE, Conductor

Charlie-Lovell-Jones, Violin

Our programme opens with Sir Arnold Bax’s magnificent orchestral picture of Tintagel Castle on the north Cornish coast, a place particularly associated with the mythology of King Arthur. 

Celebrated Cardiff-born violinist Charlie Lovell-Jones is the soloist in Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s beautiful and romantic violin concerto that takes its inspiration from Korngold’s film music from the golden age of Hollywood. 

More pictures complete the concert as we take you on a tour of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in the stunning orchestration by Maurice Ravel.

Tickets now on sale here

Programme:

Sir Arnold Bax - Tintagel

Erich Korngold  -  Violin Concerto Op. 35

Mussorgsky arr. Ravel  -  Pictures at an Exhibition

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Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra

Saturday 20th June 2026 7.30pm

BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff

Michael Bell MBE, Conductor

Rosie Biss, 'Cello

CPO returns to BBC Hoddinott Hall and opens the concert with Sir Malcolm Arnold’s exuberant English Dances.

Distinguished Principal Cello of Welsh National Opera, Rosie Biss, returns to perform with CPO following an unforgettable performance of Elgar’s Cello Concerto in June 2024. For this concert Rosie will be the soloist in Dvorak’s much-loved romantic and nostalgic Cello Concerto.

Completing the programme is the most famous, controversial and iconic work of the 20th Century, Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring. 

Tickets now on sale HERE

Programme:

Sir Malcolm Arnold  -  English Dances

Antonin Dvorak  - Cello Concerto Op.104

Igor Stravinsky  -  The Rite of Spring