Then there is an organ recital by Christopher Herrick, John Lill playing Haydn and Schumann, Prokofiev and Brahms with a master class next morning, and The King’s Singers covering the centuries in song.
Incidentally, the BBC Singers on Friday, September 25, include John McCabe and Cyril Rootham in this live broadcast on Radio 3.
A folk touch comes from the Northumbrian Pipes of the Kathryn Tickell Band.
The final Saturday concert by the BBC Orchestra finds Owain Arwel Hughes directing Brahms’s 2nd Symphony and the Oboe Concerto of Richard Strauss with soloist David Cowley. Lunchtime concerts must not be forgotten.
There is a contest between pipe and electronic organ on Monday, September 21, a Spanish guitar recital by Jonathan Richards on Tuesday, a cello and piano duo of Edward Furse and Craig White on Wednesday and on Friday piano duettists Helen and Harvey Davies. Education is an important part of the Festival and full details can be found in the Festival leaflet available from the Box Office. Upper Denbigh Road, St Asaph (Tel: 01745 584508), near the Cathedral, where most of the events take place.
