Welcome to Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra's Concerts
for the 2025-26 season.
Thank you so much to everyone who supported CPO during the 2024-2025 season.
We look forward to seeing you for our concerts in the 2025-2026 season.
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Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Bell MBE - Conductor
Saturday 18th October, 7.30pm, Llandaff Cathedral
CPO opens the new season with one of the most spectacular of all orchestral works - Saint Saëns’ Organ Symphony, featuring the majestic Llandaff Cathedral organ in all its glory. Our soloist is Judith Pendrous, organist at St Mary’s Priory, Abergavenny.
The concert marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of Sir Arthur Bliss with a suite from his fantastic and dynamic ballet score ‘Checkmate’ (based on a game of chess!) and two pieces by Ravel, born 150 years ago. The Pavane is simply sublime and will sound luminous in the wonderful Cathedral
ambience.
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Read programme notes for the Checkmate Suite here
and read our interview with Judith Pendrous our organist in the Saint-Saëns - HERE
Programme:
Maurice Ravel - Alborada del Graciosa
Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte
Sir Arthur Bliss - Suite from the ballet Checkmate
Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 the "Organ Symphony"
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A Night…and a Matinée…at the Movies
Friday 28th 7.30pm &
Saturday 29th November 2.30pm 2025
Blackwood Miners' Institute
Michael Bell MBE Conductor
Following sell-out performances at Blackwood Miners’ Institute, year after year, CPO will be returning to Blackwood and repeating its Friday evening performance of A Night at the Movies the following day, but as a matinée on Saturday afternoon.
This year’s selection includes music from Star Wars, Ben-Hur, The Sound of Music (60th anniversary of the film), Spartacus, Chicken Run, Chicago, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, The Trap (theme of the London Marathon), The Polar Express and How To Train Your Dragon. A perfect concert for the whole family.
Tickets now on sale
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A Night at the Movies
Saturday 17th January 2026 7.30pm
New Theatre, Cardiff
Michael Bell MBE Conductor
CPO returns to the wonderful New Theatre Cardiff for the third consecutive year with another programme of great music from the movies.
This year’s selection includes music from Star Wars, Ben-Hur, The Sound of Music (60th anniversary of the film), Spartacus, Chicken Run, Chicago, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, The Trap (theme of the London Marathon), The Polar Express and How To Train Your Dragon. A perfect concert for the whole family.
Tickets now on sale
here.
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Tickets now on sale
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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.
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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.
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Programme:
Sir Malcolm Arnold - English Dances
Antonin Dvorak - Cello Concerto Op.104
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
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