Interview with CPO Conductor Michael Bell MBE     Neil Collins chats to CPO Conductor, Michael Bell MBE about this powerful programme… The 2018/19 season has certainly been a varied one for CPO from Composers of the First World War to the glamour of nights at the movies and Proms, and now to the sheer power of Beethoven & Shostakovich. How has it been for yourselves? The orchestra relishes the chance to perform many different genres, and this season has…

Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra Shostakovich in his role as a firefighter in wartime Leningrad Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony Plus Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini  St David’s Hall Saturday 25 June, 7.30pm CARDIFF Philharmonic Orchestra brings down the curtain on its 2015/16 with a stunning performance of Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony at St David’s Hall on Saturday 25 June at 7.30pm. Seventy-five years ago in October 1941 at the height of World War II, the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich began writing one of…