COMPANY: Naxos
ARTIST: Jeremy Huw Williams
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Grace Williams

Product: 747313138470

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Grace Williams: Songs - Y Deryn Pur; Lights Out; Cariad Cyntaf

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Wendy Hiscocks

Grace Williams' lifelong interest in vocal music is undoubtedly due to her upbringing in Wales. The original works heard here in their premiere recordings span the entire range of her career, 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 programs, and although her craftsmanship is evident regardless of the song's country of origin, her stylistic signature is most evident in her restrained setting of the beautiful Welsh love song Cariad Cyntaf.

Grace Williams (1906-1977)

Slow, slow, fresh fount; I had a little nut tree; Green Rain; Stand forth, Seithenin; Ffarwel i Langyfelach; Llangynwyd; The Song of Mary; Shepherds watched their flocks by night; Fairground; Flight; A Lauterbach; Le Chevalier du guet; 4 Folk Songs; When thou dost dance; 3 Yugoslav Folk Songs; Y Deryn Pur; Y Fwyalchen; Cariad Cyntaf; Ow, Ow Tlysau; Dwfn yw'r mor; Lights Out; Fear no more the heat o' the sun