What's On, Cardiff at Home, Music
Aberfan 60
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When: 25 October 2026
Where: BBC Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
A concert of remembrance marking 60 years since the Aberfan disaster, featuring Paul Mealor's new requiem.
Remembrance · Community · Hope. Marking 60 years since the Aberfan disaster, this BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert is anchored by Paul Mealor's newly commissioned From Darkness into Light: a concert requiem for hope, bringing together narrator Mark Lewis Jones, Aberfan schools choirs, Ynysowen Male Voice Choir and the BBC National Chorus of Wales.
Conducted by Tim Redmond, the programme also includes Anna Clyne's This Moment, Haydn, Mozart and Vaughan Williams' Toward the Unknown Region.