If you are going to celebrate a 75th birthday then do it in style. Tonight was one of the most remarkable concerts I have been to for some considerable time.
Here, in Swansea's St Mary's Church, we were treated to a birthday concert for Sir Karl Jenkins, that had already graced New York's Carnegie Hall and London's Albert Hall.
Sir Karl, conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Wales, was accompanied by mezzo-soprano, Olivia Gomez, harpist Catrin Finch and award-winning Azerbaijani cellist, Jamal Aliyev.
We were treated to his Palladio, Passacaglia, The Peacemakers and The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace - Choral Suite among many other pieces. It was a performance of the highest possible standard and a credit to the Gower Festival who staged it.
The fact that the concert sold out at the same time as the Stereophonics are playing Singleton Park speaks volumes.
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