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BBCNOW/Bancroft review – conductor takes final bow in imaginative programme of vivid colours and emotions

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Always a quietly forceful presence on the podium: Ryan Bancroft in his final concert as BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s principal conductor. Photograph: Dimitris Legakis/the Guardian Back in 2018, Ryan Bancroft jumped in as a last-minute replacement for a BBC National Orchestra of Wales tour. By September 2020, the US-born musician was principal conductor.
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BBCNOW/Bancroft review – conductor takes final bow in imaginative programme of vivid colours and emotions

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Back in 2018, Ryan Bancroft jumped in as a last-minute replacement for a BBC National Orchestra of Wales tour. By September 2020, the US-born musician was principal conductor. In his six-year tenure, he has always been a vibrant and quietly forceful presence on the podium, amply demonstrated in this, his last Cardiff concert in the role.
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BBCNOW/Bloch/Eberle review – this was a riveting and beguiling concert

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Not a trace of bombast … violinist Veronika Eberle (centre) and conductor Alexandre Bloch (right) performing with the BBCNOW at Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Guardian On the face of it, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, the opening work of this BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert, might have seemed unexceptional. Soloist Veronika Eberle immediately proved it otherwise.
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