Grace Williams: Songs

 
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GRACE WILLIAMS
Grace Williams: Songs
Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) Wendy Hiscocks (piano)

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 26 July 2024

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Grace Williams' lifelong interest in vocal writing no doubt owed something to her upbringing in Wales. The original works heard here in their premiere recordings span the entirety of her career, ranging from her earliest surviving composition in any genre to 1967's Fear no more the heat o' the sun. Williams' folk song arrangements were often commissions for BBC children's programmes, and while her craftsmanship is evident irrespective of the song's country of origin, her stylistic fingerprints are most firmly placed on her understated setting of the beautiful Welsh love song, Cariad Cyntaf.

Tracks:

1 Slow, slow, fresh fount
2 I had a little nut tree
3 Green Rain
4 Stand forth, Seithenin
5 Ffarwel i Langyfelach
6 Llangynwyd
7 The Song of Mary
8 Shepherds watched their flocks by night
9 Fairground
10 Flight
11 À Lauterbach
12 Le Chevalier du guet
13 - 16 Four Folk Songs Raising the profile of music by women
17 When thou dost dance
18 - 20 Three Yugoslav Folk Songs
21 Y Deryn Pur
22 Y Fwyalchen
23 Cariad Cyntaf
24 Ow, Ow, Tlysau
25 Dwfn yw'r môr
26 Lights Out
27 Fear no more the heat o' the sun