Alun Hoddinott

ALUN HODDINOTT: A SOURCE BOOK Alun Hoddinott is the most important living Welsh composer and one of the most distinguished and prolific composers of his generation internationally. His works have been performed in major centres as far afield as Tokyo and Berlin, Melbourne and Leipzig, New York and Venice as well as the major festivals in Wales and England. He is one of the very few composers to have been commissioned to compose a concerto for Mstislav Rostropovitch. Born in Bargoed, Glamorganshire, in August 1929, Alun Hoddinott started to play the violin and compose at an early age. Some of his works were performed and broadcast whilst he was a student at University College, Cardiff and he later studied with the Australian composer and pianist Arthur Benjamin. His first major success was his Clarinet Concerto No.1, given by Gervaise de Peyer and the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli at the 1954 Cheltenham Music Festival. This Source Book lists all Hoddinott’s compositions from 1946 to 2005, almost 60 years of phenomenal output, and shows he has achieved a mastery of composition which embraces almost every musical medium. With information given on first performances, manuscript locations and recordings, in addition to details of composition dates, authors/librettists, durations, commissions and dedications amongst much else, this book is a key reference for all those interested in Alun Hoddinott and his music.

ALUN HODDINOTT A SOURCE BOOK compiled by

STEWART R. CRAGGS

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Contents

Foreword by Jeremy Huw Williams

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Acknowledgements

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Index of titles

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Chronology

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Catalogue of works

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General bibliography

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Classified index of works

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General index

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For Rhiannon and to the memory of two inspirational teachers J. Victor Pollard and Thomas B. Walker (ex Ilkley Grammar School)

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Foreword Jeremy Huw Williams

Alun Hoddinott – A Singer’s Perspective The pre-eminent Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott (born in 1929) has an unique place in the history of music. He received national recognition in 1954 with his Clarinet Concerto (Opus 3) of 1950 (performed at the Cheltenham Festival by Gervase de Peyer with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli), and is still fulfilling large-scale commissions 60 years later, his first works dating from 1946. There are few composers who have been as vastly prolific as Hoddinott, who has composed to commission for over half a century. The majority of the composer’s works have been instrumental and orchestral: one of the most recent works was a short orchestral piece for the Service of Prayer and Dedication written to celebrate the marriage of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in 2005. His Celebration Tribute (played by the Philharmonia Orchestra at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor in the presence of the composer) was heard across the world, and the composer has a collection of articles about the fanfare from newspapers in Australia, Russia, India, North and South America as well as in Europe. It was, however, songs rather than orchestral works that the young teenage composer started writing. Vocal music has been an important part of Hoddinott’s work throughout his career, and he has completed six operas: the first four, The Beach of Falesa (Opus 83), The Magician (Opus 88), What the Old Man Does is Always Right (Opus 93) and The Rajah’s Diamond (Opus 99) featured the bass-baritone Sir Geraint Evans; the fifth, The Trumpet Major (Opus 103) was written for the Royal Northern College vii

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of Music, whilst his latest opera Tower (Opus 170) featured the bass Robert Lloyd. There have been many large- and small-scale choral works and a wonderful stream of song cycles, with a variety of accompaniment from piano to symphony orchestra. Writing for voice has enabled Hoddinott’s music to be performed by both amateur (especially choral works) and professional musicians. I vividly remember the excitement of taking part, at the age of 15, in the first performance and premiere commercial recording of The Bells of Paradise (Opus 117) as a member of the local county youth choir. This is music that allows young amateur musicians to explore fresh elements of their technique within a large canvass: the piece is scored for baritone, choir and symphony orchestra. It was an exhilarating experience, leaving a lasting impression on me as I later embarked on a career as a professional singer. Subsequently, as a choral scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge, under George Guest, other Hoddinott premieres (Three Advent Carols, 1990, recorded commercially and performed on the choir’s world-wide tours) brought me into close contact with the composer himself. As I was shortly to be married, I ventured to ask him to write an anthem for my wedding, and Hoddinott generously provided the most uplifting work for the Choir of St John’s College, Caniad Solomon (Song of Solomon, 1991). This proved to be the beginning of a creative partnership, which has been one of the most fulfilling aspects of my career, spanning opera and oratorio as well as song. Becoming a professional soloist on my graduation from Cambridge, I gave many performances of Hoddinott’s established Ancestor Worship (Opus 82). This is virtuoso writing for the voice, and pushes the baritone to his upper limits of range and stamina. The music had a haunting effect on audiences, especially those in the USA, who were inquisitive about the strange but beautiful harmonic language. Eager for more music for baritone, I have since commissioned many pieces from the composer, including the Five Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (Opus 152/2) a setting of Spanish poems, translated into English by Ifan Payne. The 1990s saw the writing of large-scale vocal pieces including the Mass of the Camargue (Opus 158), commissioned for Opus TV (baritone, choir, piano duet, organ and percussion) and the composer’s sixth opera, Tower (Opus 170); I was fortunate enough to have sung in the premieres of both works. The former was inspired by the Easter pageantry of the French Camargue, and the musical performance filmed at Llandaff Cathedral was atmospherically juxtaposed with images of the medieval-like ceremonies that take place annually in one of the most remarkable areas in the South of France. Tower is an opera that is deeply rooted in the Welsh mining

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community, following the story of Tyrone O’Sullivan, the hero who led a team of miners in their fight to buy the Tower Colliery from British Coal in 1995 (something which had never before been attempted). The opera was seen widely on tour, and local venues provided amateur choirs to sing alongside the professional soloists. It was extraordinary to see many of the Tower Colliery miners themselves in the audience to witness an operatic version of the trials and tribulations that led to the successful outcome of their fight. The landscape and culture of Wales have always been of paramount importance to the composer, who has lived and worked for most of his life in the Principality (Professor of Music at the University of Cardiff, 1967– 87, and Artistic Director of the Cardiff Festival of Twentieth Century Music, 1966–89). Hoddinott has frequently found inspiration in Welsh poetry and folk tunes and wrote his first set of Welsh Dances (Opus 15) in 1958 (a second set appeared in 1969 and a third set in 1985), the popular Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes in 1982, and other works for both choir and orchestra such as the Four Welsh Songs of 1971. In 1982, he arranged Welsh folk songs for the solo voice (Six Welsh Folk Songs, 1982), simple and diatonic in style, subtly enhancing the familiar tune with his distinctive harmonic background. The success and popularity of these Welsh language song arrangements encouraged the composer to write original song cycles using the Welsh language, resulting in Tymhorau (Opus 155) for voice and piano (also arranged by the composer for string orchestra accompaniment in 1996) which has also been successfully performed outside Wales (with translations for audiences) at venues including London’s Purcell Room and in the USA. This Welsh song cycle was followed by Paradwys Mai (Opus 143/1), reinvented with piano accompaniment in 2001 from its original instrumental version of 1992. The accompaniment demands virtuoso playing of the pianist, who has to conjure up all the vital energy of a full orchestra, whilst expecting the singer to provide rapturous pianissimi sounds at the very top of the range, to convey the subtleties of Saunders Lewis’s verse. Another interesting avenue that the composer has explored is the combination of voice and harp. Following Caneuon Indeg (Songs for Indeg), nursery rhyme arrangements written at the birth of my daughter to my wife’s harp accompaniment, Hoddinott wrote an original song cycle for baritone featuring this most popular of Welsh instruments, The Poetry of Earth (Opus 165). The harp writing is highly demanding; it owes nothing to the traditional Welsh cerdd dant and yet the combination of voice and harp is instantly recognisable and loved by audiences. The cycle represents an array of different animals, and the writing is full of humour. To

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complement this cycle in performance, the composer arranged Seven Welsh Folk Songs for baritone and harp in 2005. It is the piano, however, that seems to be the perfect instrument to sustain and build up Hoddinott’s complex harmonies, aided by the measured use of the damper pedal. The sinuous vocal lines, built from these chromatic harmonies, retain a wonderful sense of melodic shape as they unfold upwards in graceful intervallic patterns, and call for much beauty of tone from the singer. Naturally the choice of poetry is crucial, and Hoddinott always finds words that are resonant and suggestive of music. The piano provides a counterpoint to a string quartet in the accompaniment to his impressive scena for baritone, Grongar Hill (Opus 168). This instrumentation was modelled on Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge, but there the similarity ends. The composer (a string player himself), creates an unique sound world, this time using the piano largely as a percussive instrument against the sustaining power of the strings, while the singer revels in the atmosphere of the ancient Welsh landscape of the poetry. The composer’s respect for Benjamin Britten (like Hoddinott, a composer who was deeply rooted within his own community) was evident in the model for his 2004 song cycle, The Promontory of Dreams (Opus 183), a serenade for baritone, horn and strings, with text by Trevor Fishlock. Hoddinott’s writing is strikingly original: this is a richly scored piece for strings divided into many parts, with the horn a perfect partner to the vocal soloist in a mysterious depiction of the legends and landscape of the Gower area, where the composer has made his home since 1998. It is to the dark and brooding voice of the baritone that Hoddinott has most often turned, but the soprano has also featured prominently in his oeuvre. In 1992, his Ninth Symphony, A Vision of Eternity (Opus 145), was thrillingly scored for dramatic soprano and symphony orchestra, and given its premiere by Dame Gwyneth Jones to celebrate the tenth anniversary of St. David’s Hall in Cardiff. Recently, the composer has completed the full score of La Serenissima: Images of Venice (Opus 189), a song cycle reminiscent of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in that it is scored for soprano, baritone and symphony orchestra. In the same way that Hoddinott has been inspired by the pictorial Camargue pageants for his Mass of the Camargue (Opus 158) in 1996, the extraordinary city of Venice has also been an inspiration for the composer. For several years, he and I have discussed the idea of works based on the romance of Venice, and this first came to fruition in 2000 with La Serenissima (Opus 173), a setting of Italian as well as English texts for baritone and piano. The orchestral song cycle La Serenissima: Images of Venice (Opus 189) of 2005 sets texts by

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English poets, and the highly colourful orchestration (with prominent percussion section), subtle harmonies and sensual melodies create a work full of vivid imagery of this special city. The substantial poem of Grongar Hill (Opus 168) by John Dyer (which the composer partly set in his version of 1998) also provided the text for a new work in 2006 for soprano, baritone and four hands at the piano, provisionally entitled Towy Landscape. Hoddinott’s skill as a writer ensures that his music has a compelling inner logic, rewarding in its mastery of form, and thus always easy to memorise. The committing to memory of song is crucial for audience understanding, and the full engagement of the singer. Of the contemporary repertoire I have experienced, Hoddinott’s songs are by far the easiest to remember: the writing is instinctive, the form always clear, and the setting of text completely natural (I have never been inclined to ask the composer to change one note of his meticulous scores). Yet Hoddinott’s vocal writing always pushes the singer as far as he or she can go; the singer must be armed with a wide palette of colours, gradation of tone, and range. Uncannily, the composer always seems to know exactly where these limits lie, a notoriously difficult task given the temperament of vocal tessitura, and a hurdle at which many other composers fall. It is to Hoddinott’s songs that I constantly return, and perform more often than any other contemporary composer; I have also been fortunate to have commercially recorded all his music for baritone. His portfolio of songs has become an important part of the modern singer’s repertoire, and will, I hope, be taken up by generations of future singers. Jeremy Huw Williams, Cardiff, May 2006

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Acknowledgements

I owe a great debt of gratitude to Alun and Rhiannon Hoddinott for their help in so many ways and kindnesses over the years and for welcoming me into their home on numerous occasions while the present volume was being prepared. Also to Jeremy Huw Williams for his help and for writing the introduction. I should also like to thank Sophie Currie at Oxford University Press, Professor John Dressler of Murray State University, Kentucky, USA, together with Jackie Kavanagh and Jeff Walden of the BBC’s Written Archive Centre at Caversham, Dr. Jennifer Haynes, Archivist of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Linda McGowan and Dr. John B. Marsden. Finally, I am very grateful to Rachel Lynch, Ellen Keeling, Ann Newell and Heidi May at Ashgate Publishing for their help and guidance with this book.

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Index of titles

Adagio for strings (1947), 38 (An) Address to Melancholy (1949), 41 Afternoon on a river, see Two Impressions for Orchestra (1949) Alla Marcia for trumpet, see Little Suite for Trumpet (1987–88) American Gals, see Voyagers (Op.75) Ancestor Worship (Op.82), viii, 112 Angel or spirit, see Songs of Exile (Op.133) Antarctic Journey (1953), 47 Antigone (1963), 74 Ap Sièncyn (Son of Sièncyn), see Six Welsh Folk Songs (1982); Seven Folk Songs (2005) (An) apple tree and a pig (Op.55), 23, 91–92 Arabesque for violin and piano (1966), 84 Arietta for trumpet, see Little Suite for Trumpet (1987–88) Aroglau Mwsg (The Smell of Musk), see Esther (1959) Aspiciens a longe (1987), 155 Aubade (Op.72, no.4), 110 Aubade and Scherzo (Op.42), 8 Badger in the Bag (Op.184), 36, 198–199 Bagatelles for eleven instruments (Op.179), 195 Bagatelles for four trombones (Op.186), 199 Bagatelles for oboe and harp (Op.112), 29, 143 Barti Ddu (Black Bart) (Op.59), 24, 92 (The) Beach of Falesa (Op.83), vii, 26, 112–113 (The) Bells of Paradise (Op.117), viii, 30, 143–144 Birthday Greetings to Paul Patterson (1987), 156 Blodeuwedd (1964), 77 Blood Wedding (1957), 55 1

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Breuddwyd y Bardd (The Poet’s Dream), see Four Welsh Songs (1971) Broch Ynghod, see Badger in the Bag (Op.184) Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn (The Golden Wheat), see Six Welsh Folk Songs (1982); Seven Folk Songs (2005) By the door of the East yonder, see Wrth ddrws y Gorllewin drau’ (1966) Cân Serch (Love Song), see Folk Song Suite (1962) Caneuon Indeg (Songs for Indeg) (1997), ix, 184–185 Capriccio for piano and orchestra (1947), 38 Capriccio for trombone, see Two Pieces for Trombone and Piano (1990) (The) Camargue Mass (Op.158), viii, x, 181–182 Carol for two voices, see Yn y preseb ym Methlehem (1952) Celebration for String Quartet (2004), 200 Celebration Dances (Op.169), 35, 188–189 Celebration Fanfare (1986), 153 Celebration Tribute (2005), vii, 36, 201–202 (The) Charge of the Light Brigade (1982), 138 Christ and Sinful Man, see Three Medieval Songs (Op.30) Christ is Risen (1985), 30, 147 (A) Christmas Dance, see Dawns y Nadolig (1995) Chorales, Variants and Fanfares for organ and brass (Op.144), 170–171 Codiad Lloer (Moonrise) (1958), 58 Come away death (1949), 41 (The) Coming of the Lord (1990), 32, 164–165 Concertino for horn, trumpet and orchestra (Op.72, no.2), 25, 105–106 Concertino for viola and small orchestra (Op.14), 20, 58 Concerto for cello and orchestra (1948), 17, 40 Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra (Op.3), vii. 18, 19, 20, 44 Concerto No. 2 for clarinet and orchestra (Op.128), 31, 64–65, 156 Concerto for euphonium and orchestra (Op.180), 35, 195–196 Concerto for harp and orchestra (Op.11), 20, 56 Concerto for horn and orchestra (Op.65), 24, 96 Concerto for oboe and string orchestra (Op.8), 19, 52 Concerto for orchestra (Op.127), 30, 153 Concerto for organ and orchestra (Op.51), 23, 90 Concerto for percussion and brass band (Op.175), 35, 193–194 Concerto No. 1 for piano, wind and percussion (Op.19), 21, 65 Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra (Op.21), 21, 65–66 Concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra (Op.44), 23, 85–86 Concerto for trombone and orchestra (Op.185), 36, 199

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Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (Op.154), 34, 178–179 Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.22), 21, 68 Concerto No.2 for violin and orchestra (Op.153), 34, 178 Concerto for violin, cello, piano and orchestra (Op.124), 30, 153–154 Concerto Grosso No. 1 (Op.41), 22, 81–82 Concerto Grosso No. 2 (Op.46), 23, 84–85 Concerto Grosso for brass band (Op.187), 199–200 (A) Contemplation upon Flowers (Op.90), 26, 117 Croen y Ddafad Felen (The Yellow Sheepskin), see Folk Song Suite (1962); Four Welsh Songs (1971); Welsh Dances for Brass Band (Op.123a) (The) Crucible (1958), 59 Cymru (Wales) (1978), 126 Cysga di, fy Mhlentyn Tlws (Sleep my pretty child), see Four Welsh Songs (1964); Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1982) Dacw Dadi ‘n Mynd i’r F fair (There goes Daddy), see Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1982) Dacw Mam yn Dwad (Have you seen my mother?), see Four Welsh Songs Pedair Cân Gymreig) (1964) Dadl Dau (The Lazy Wife), see Two Welsh Folk Songs (1967); Four Welsh Songs (1971); Seven Folk Songs (2005) Daeth dydd Nadoiig eto ar ei rawd (Christmas day has come again), see Dwy Garol (1990) Dan Owen and the angel Joe (1951), 47 Danegeld (Op.33), 22, 77 Dark March for piano (1995), 181 Dawns y Nadolig (A Christmas Dance) (1995), 179 Dawlish Fair, see Two Songs (1946) Dawns and Dusks: ballet (1979), 32, 87, 105 Deryn y Bwn o’r Banna (The bitterne from the high hills), see Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1982) Devouring time, see Ingravescentem Aetatem (Op.108) Din Lligwy, see Five Landscapes (Op.87) Dirge (1948), 40 Diversions (Op.126), 154 Divertimenti (Op.118), 30, 148 Divertimento for eight instruments (Op.58), 23, 92–93 Divertimento for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (Op.32), 22, 74–75 Divertimento for small orchestra (Op.69), 96–97 Dives and Lazarus (Op.39), 22, 82

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Doubles (Op.106), 29, 138 Doubles (Op.174), 193 Dover Beach (sketch) (1946), 37 Dragon Fire (Op.167), 187 DramaDance: ballet (1981), 67–68 Dream Wanderer (Op.178), 35, 195 Drink Today (1947), 17, 39; see also Six Songs for Tenor and String Quartet (1949) Dulcia luventutis (The Joys of Youth) (Op.97), 27, 126 Dwy Gân o Forgannwg, see Two Songs from Glamorgan (1990) Dwy Garol (Two Carols) (1990), 165 Elegy for piano, see Sonatina for clavichord/piano (Op.18) Emynau Pantycelyn (Hymns of Pantycelyn) (Op.138), 32, 165–166 Ending (1949), see An Address to Melancholy (1949) Entry for orchestra (1960), 66 Epilogue (1946), 37 Epitaph, see The Silver Hound (Op.121) ‘Eryri’ (Snowdonia) (1969), 24, 97 Esther (1959), 21, 61 Every Man’s Work shall be made Manifest (1964), 78 Everywhere lovers are victims, see Songs of Exile (Op.133) Fanfare and variants for brass band (1985), 30, 148 Fanfare for St. David’s and the Fishguard Festival (1981), 133–134 Fanfare for the Cardiff Tattoo (1979), 128–129 Fanfare for the Welsh Celebration Ball (1963), 75 Fantasy for harp (Op.68, no.2), 101–102 Farewell take Love, see Six Songs for Tenor and String Quartet (1949) Farewell to Llangyfelach, see Two Songs from Glamorgan (1990); (2000); Seven Folk Songs (2005) Festivo: music for a celebration (1996), 183 Fickliness, see Six Songs for Tenor and String Quartet (1949) Fioriture (Op.60), 24, 93 (The) Firstborn (1958), 59 Five Bagatelles for wind quintet (Op.150b), 191 Five Landscapes (Ynys Mon) (Op.87), 26, 116 Five Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (Op.152, no.2), viii, 177 Five Studies for Orchestra (Op.107), 29, 139 ‘the floore of heav’n’ (Op.72, no.6), 114 (The) Flower, see A Contemplation upon Flowers (Op. 90)

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Flower Songs (1986), 154 Folk Song Suite (1962), 71–72; (1965), 72 Four scenes from The Trumpet Major (Op.103a), 137 Four Welsh Dances [set 1] (Op.15), ix, 20, 60 Four Welsh Dances [set 2] (Op.64), ix, 24, 98 Four Welsh Dances [set 3] (op.123), ix, 149 Four Welsh Songs (Pedair Cân Gymreig) (1964), 78 Four Welsh Songs (1971), ix, 26, 27, 33, 106 French Suite (Op.91), 27, 121 From Father to Son, see Ancestor Worship (Op.82) Fugal Overture (Op.4, no.2), 18, 50 A Garden, see Flower Songs (1986) (The) Gates of Heav’n (Op. 143, no.3), 171 Gee, Geffyl Bach (Gee up little horse), see Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1982) Gloria (Op.143, no.2), 33, 171 God Lyaeus, see Six Songs for tenor and String Quartet (1949) Great Art Thou, O God (1961), 69 Great is the Lord (1979), 129 Green Broom (1985), 149 Grongar Hill (Op.168), x, xi, 34, 188 (The) Growing Weight of Age, see Ingravescentum Aetatem (Op. 108) Harlequinade (1949), 17, 42 Have you seen my mother? (Dacw Mam yn Dwad), see Four Welsh Songs (Padair Cân Gymreig) (1964) ‘the hawk is set free’ (Op.72, no.5), 25, 110 (The) Heartsease, see An Address to Melancholy (1949) (The) Heaventree of Stars (Op.102), 28, 133 Heddiw ganed Crist (Today Christ is born) (1957), 56 Hen Gapel, see Five Landscapes (Op.87) (The) Holly (Y Gelynnen), see Four Welsh Songs (Pedair Cân Gymreig) (1964) Holy, Holy, Holy (1964), 78 (The) Holy Son of God (1987), 31, 156–157 Homage à Chopin (Op.107, no.2), 30, 144 Homeward run, see Voyagers (Op.75) (The) Horsemasters (1961), 69 How can my world end, see Songs of Exile (Op.133) Hw’ Mlaen (Ox-driving Song), see Folk Song Suite (1962)

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Hymnus ante somnum (Op.97, no.2), 129 I send a greeting (1954), 19, 51 Iesu, Iesu rwyt Ti’n ddigon, see Emynau Pantycelyn (Op.138) Ieuenctid y Dydd (Youth of the Day) (1972), 110–111 Images of Venice (Op.189), x, 202 Impromptu for harp (1955), 52 Improvisations for clarinet and piano (1956), 53 Improvisations on an old Welsh tune for orchestra (1987), 157 Improvisations on an old Welsh tune for soprano, male chorus and orchestra (1993), 173 In a manger, see Yn y Preseb ym Methlehem (1952) Ingravescentem Aetatem (Op.108), 29, 141 In Parasceve Dominum: III Nocturno (1982), 139 In Praise of Ivy, see Three Medieval Songs (Op.30) In Praise of Music (1986), 155 Intrada for organ (Op.37, no.2), 86 Investiture Dances (Op.66), 24, 98 Island of Dragons (Op.166, no.1), 186–187 Italian Suite (Op. 92), 27, 121–122 Jack Straw (Op.35), 22, 79 Jackie the Jumper (1962), 72 (The) Jet-Age metal (1952), 48 Job (Op.24), 22, 63–64 (A) Joyful Song, see Two Songs for bass voice and piano (Op.2) Jubilate (1983), 141 King of Glory (1983), 141–142 Lady and Unicorn (Op.110), 144–145 Lament for Welsh sailors, see Voyagers (Op.75) Landscapes (Op.86), 26, 116–117 Lanterne des Morts (Op.105, no.2), 29, 31, 35, 134 La Serenissima (Op.173), x, 35, 192–193 Leapfrog: Bagatelle for piano (2003), 197–198 (The) Legend of St. Julian (Op.124), 31, 157–159 Life, see A Contemplation upon Flowers (Op.90) Lines from Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus (Op.131), 156–157 Lines from ‘The Music Makers’ (1994), 177–176 Lisa Lân (Fair Lisa), see Folk Song Suite (1962); Two Welsh Folk

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Songs (1967); Four Welsh Folk Songs (1971) Little Suite for trumpet and piano (1987–88), 158–159 Lizard: Concerto for Orchestra (Op.181), 197 Lizard for piano (1997), 185 Lizard: variants for recorder (Op.166, no.2), 187 Llyn-y-fan: ballet (1975), 45, 56, 60 Llys Dulas, see Five Landscapes (Op.87) (The) Lover, see The Silver Hound (Op.121) (A) Lover’s Complaint (1949), 17, 42 Lullaby, see The Silver Hound (Op.121) Lullaby for medium voice and piano (Op.4, no.1), 46 (The) Magician (Op.88), vii, 26, 117–118 Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (St. David’s Service) (1996), 34, 182–183 Marro’s Only Son, see Ancestor Worship (Op.82) Masks (Op.109), 29, 142 Mass of the Pilgrims, 34; see also (The) Camargue Mass (Op.158) Master Plan, see Ancestor Worship (Op.82) (A) May Song (1991), 167 Medieval Carol (Op.38, no.2), 83 (The) Meeting (1956), 19, 54 (A) Melancholy Song, see Two Songs for bass voice and piano (Op.2) Mentra Gwen (Fairest Gwen), see Six Welsh Folk Songs (1982); Seven Folk Songs (2005) Mi bellach goda ma’s, see Emynau Pantycelyn (Op.138) Migildi Magildi, see Welsh Dances for Brass Band (Op.123a) Miniatures (1947), 39 Missa Sancti David (Op.148), 33, 34, 174 Modryb Neli (Aunt Nellie), see Folk Song Suite (1962) Moonrise, see Codiad Lloer (1958) My love dwells in Pontypridd, see Two Songs from Glamorgan (1990); (2000); Seven Folk Songs (2005) Mynydd Bodafon, see Five Landscapes (Op.87) Night Music (Op.48), 86–87 Nightpiece: Music for Orchestra (Op.86, no.2), 27, 122 Noctis Equi (Op.132), 32, 160–161 Nocturne for clarinet, violin and piano (1952), 18, 48 Nocturne for orchestra (1948), 17, 41 Nocturne for orchestra (Op.5), 19, 49 Nocturne No. 1 for piano (Op.9), 54

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Nocturne No. 2 for piano (Op.16, no.1), 61 Nocturne and Dance for harp and orchestra (Op.16, no.2), 21, 62 Nocturnes and Cadenzas for cello (Op.101a), 129–130 Nocturnes and Cadenzas for cello and orchestra (Op.62), 24, 98–99 Nocturnes and Cadenzas for clarinet, violin and cello (Op.53), 23, 93 Nocturnes and Cadenzas for flute (Op.101b), 133 Nocturnes and Cadenzas for harp (Op.68, no.1), 99 Nos fendigaid, see The Wondrous Night (Op.25, no.2) Novelette for flute, oboe and piano (Op.139), 167 Novus Amor (New Love), see Dulcia Iuventutis (Op.97) Nowhere at Home (1954), 19, 51 Nunc est Bibendum (Now is the time for drinking), see Dulcia Iuventutis (Op.97) O gentle dove (Y deryn pur), see Six Welsh Folk Songs (1982) O nefol addwyn Oen, see Emynau Pantycelyn (Op.138) Of the New Year, see Three Medieval Songs (Op.30) Offeren y Camargue, see (The) Camargue Mass (Op.158) (The) Old Man, see The Silver Hound (Op.121) Once a Farmer and his Wife, see Y Saith Cysgadur (2002) ‘One must always have love’ (Op.152, no.3), 177 Out of the Deep (Op.74), 26, 102 Overture for Chamber Orchestra, see Fugue Overture (Op.4, no.2) Pantomime (Op.45), 87 Paradwys Mai (Paradise of May) (Op.143, no.1), ix, 33, 170 Passacaglia and Fugue for organ (Op.122), 150 Passaggio for orchestra (Op.94), 27, 33, 122–123 Pastorale for small orchestra (1949), 17, 42 Pe Cawn I Hon (If she were mine), see Six Welsh Folk Songs (1982) Pedoli, Pedoli (Shoeing Song), see Four Welsh Songs (Pedair Cân Gymreig) (1964); Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1982) Pembrokeshire - My County (1960), 66 Pererin wyf, see Emynau Pantycelyn (Op.138) Phantasy Overture (1947), 17, 39 Phantasy String Quartet (1947), 49 (The) Pied Piper (1966), 87 (The) Poetry of Earth (Op.156), 34, 180 (The) Poetry of Earth (Op.165), ix, 186 Prelude for two violas (1948), 41 Prelude and Fugue for string trio (1948), 17, 41

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Prelude, Nocturne and Dance for harp and orchestra (Op.16b), 61 Prologue, see The Silver Hound (Op.121) Promenade for trombone, see Two Pieces for Trombone and piano (1980) Promontory of Dreams (Op.183), x, 36, 198–199 Puer Natus (A Child is Born) (1971), 26, 107 Pullman Prelude for orchestra (1988), 159–160 Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and cello (Op.6), 50 Quartet for strings (1946), 38 Quartet No. 1 for strings (Op.43), 23, 83 Quartet No. 2 for strings (Op.113), 30, 145 Quartet No. 3 for strings (Op.130), 31, 160 Quartet No. 4 for strings (Op.160), 183 Quartet No. 5 for strings (Op.177), 194 Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (Op.146), 33, 173 Quintet for 2 violins, viola, cello and piano (Op.78, no.4), 25, 111 Quodlibet on Welsh nursery tunes for brass quintet (1983), 29, 142–143 Quodlibet on Welsh nursery tunes for orchestra (1982), ix, 139–140 (The) Race of Adam (Op.23), 22, 69–70 (The) Rajah’s Diamond (Op.99), vii, 28, 130–131 Rebecca (Op.26), 26, 70–71 Remorseless package, see Songs of Exile (Op.133) (A) Requiem for the Living (1951), 47 Rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1946), 38 Rhapsody on Welsh Tunes for orchestra (1989), 161 Richard Savage (1953), 50 Ritornelli (Op.85), 26, 115–116 Ritornelli – 2 (Op.100, no.2), 28, 131 Ritornelli – 3 for four double basses (Op.104), 134–135 Ritornelli – 3 for String Quartet (1991), 135 Roman Dream (Op.54), 94 Rondino for trumpet, see Little Suite for Trumpet (1987–88) Rondo Capriccioso for tenor trombone and piano (Op.12, no.2), 57 Rondo Scherzo for piano (Op.25, no.1), 71 Rondo Scherzo for trumpet and piano (Op.2, no.1), 57 Rwy’n edrych dros y bryniau pell, see Emynau Pantycelyn (Op.138) Sailing at Dawn, see Voyagers (Op.75), Saint David (1951), 48 Saint Paul at Malta (Op.80), 107

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Sarum Fanfare for organ (Op.37, no.3), 102 Saviour of the World (1991), 32, 167–168 Scena for string orchestra (Op.119), 150–151 Scena for string quartet (Op.100, no.1), 28, 132 Scenes and Interludes (Op.115), 145–146 Scherzo for small orchestra (1949), 43 (The) Schoolboy, see The Silver Hound (Op.121) Seasons: Four Poems of Gwyn Thomas, see Tymhorau (Op.155) (The) Secret World of Odilon Redilon (1973), 73, 89, 96, 105, 114 See, see the Shepherds Queen (1946), 16, 38 Septet (Op.10), 20, 54 Serenade for orchestra (1948), 41 Serenade for string orchestra (Op.13), 20, 57 Set me as a Seal, see Song of Solomon (1991) Seven Folk Songs (Saith O Caneuon Werin) (2005), x, 201 Severn Bridge Variations, see Variation [No.2: Nocturne] on a Welsh Folk Song (1966) Sextet (Op.20), 21, 67–68 (The) Shining Pyramid (1977), 123; see also Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (Op.154) Shoeing Song (Pedoli, Pedoli), see Four Welsh Songs (Pedair Cân Gymreig) (1964) (The) Silver Hound (Op.121), 30, 151 (The) Silver Swimmer (for mixed chorus) (Op.84), 26, 114–115 (The) Silver Swimmer (for soprano and ensemble) (Op.152, no.1), 176–177 Sinfonia Fidei (Op.95), 27, 123–124 Sinfonia for string orchestra (Op.34), 79 Sinfonietta No. 1 (Op.56), 94–95 Sinfonietta No. 2 (Op.67), 100 Sinfonietta No. 3 (Op.71), 24, 102–103 Sinfonietta No. 4 (Op. 72, no.3), 107–108 Sing a new Song (1985), 151–152 Six Bagatelles for violin, 2 violas and cello (Op.150), 33, 175 Six Bagatelles in the form of diversions on five notes for string quartet (1948), 18, 39 Six Songs for Tenor and String Quartet (1949), 43 Six Welsh Folksongs (1982), ix, 140 (The) Soldier, see The Silver Hound (Op.121) Sonata for cello and piano (Op.73, no.2), 103 Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano (Op.96, no.1), 124 Sonata No.3 for cello and piano (Op.159), 182

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Sonata for clarinet and piano (Op.50), 23, 90–91 Sonata No.2 for clarinet and piano (Op.162), 184 Sonata for euphonium and piano (Op.182), 198 Sonata for flute and piano (Op.140), 168 Sonata for four clarinets (Op.104, no.2a), 30, 152 Sonata for four saxophones (Op. 104, no.2b), 152 Sonata for harp (Op.36), 22, 80 Sonata for horn and piano (Op.78, no.2), 108 Sonata for oboe and harp (Op.157), 181 Sonata for organ (Op.96, no.2), 27, 126–127 Sonata No. 1 for piano (Op.17), 21, 62 Sonata No. 2 for piano (Op.27), 72–73 Sonata No. 3 for piano (Op.40), 83–84 Sonata No. 4 for piano (Op.49), 87–88 Sonata No. 5 for piano (Op.57), 95 Sonata No. 6 for piano (Op.78, no.3), 111 Sonata No. 7 for piano (Op.114), 146 Sonata No. 8 for piano (Op.125), 155 Sonata No. 9 for piano (Op.134), 161–162 Sonata No. 10 for piano (Op.136), 162 Sonata No. 11 for piano (Op.147), 173 Sonata No. 12 for piano (Op.149), 174–175 Sonata No. 13 for piano (Op.176), 35, 194 Sonata for piano duet (Op.188), 200–201 Sonata for two pianos (Op.120), 152 Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (Op.63), 100–101 Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (Op.73, no.1), 103 Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano (Op.78, no.1), 108–109 Sonata No. 4 for violin and piano (Op.89), 119–120 Sonata No. 5 for violin and piano (Op.141), 33, 169 Sonata No. 6 for violin and piano (Op.163), 185 Sonata Notturna for harp (Op.68b), 99–100 Sonatina for clavichord or piano (Op.18), 64 Sonatina for guitar (Op.98, no.1), 127 Sonatina for two pianos (Op.98, no.2), 127 Sonatina for viola (1949), 43 Song (Overtures to Death), see An Address to Melancholy (1949) Song in the Wood, see An Address to Melancholy (1949) Song of Destiny (1949), 43 Song of Solomon (Caniad Solomon) (1991), viii, 32, 168 Songs for Indeg, see Caneuon Indeg (1997)

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Songs of Exile (Op.133), 31, 162–163 Star Children (Op.135), 32, 163 (The) Statesman, see The Silver Hound (Op.121) Steel be my Sister (1975), 120 Suite for solo harp (Op.52), 91 Suite No. 1 for orchestra (Op.72, no.1), 24, 104 Summer morning, see Two Impressions for orchestra (1949) ‘the sun, the great luminary of the universe’ (Op.76), 25, 31, 104–105 Suo-gân (Lullaby) (1958), 61 Survivors (1979), 132 Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), 21, 68 Symphonic Suite (1949), 43 Symphony for brass and percussion, see Symphony No.8. (Op.142) Symphony No. 1 (Op. 7), 19, 52–53 Symphony No. 2 (Op.29), 22, 73 Symphony No. 3 (Op.61), 24, 95–96 Symphony No. 4 (Op.70), 24, 101 Symphony No. 5 (Op.81), 26, 115 Symphony No. 6 (Op.116), 30, 146–147 Symphony No. 7 for organ and orchestra (Op.137), 32, 163–164 Symphony No. 8 (Op.142), 169–170 Symphony No. 9 (‘A Vision of Eternity’) (Op.145), x, 33, 171–172 Symphony No. 10 (Op.172), 35, 192 Tarantella for harp and orchestra (1988), 160 Te Deum (Op.105, no.1), 28, 135 Tempi: sonata for harp (Op.164), 34, 185–186 Tenera Iuventa (Tender Youth), see Dulcia Iuventutis (Op.97) Theatre Overture (1984), 125 Theme and Variations for String Quartet (1947), 40 There go the ships, see Whale Hunting (1950) Three Advent Carols (1990), viii, 156, 164, 167–168 Three Hymns (Op.151, no.1), 176 Three Medieval Songs (Op.30), 77–76 Three Motets (Op.143, no.4), 172 Three Shakespeare Songs (Op. 151, no.2), 176 Three Welsh Folk Songs: arranged for cello and piano (2002), 196–197 (The) tide fingers the same, see Songs of Exile (Op.133) (The) Time Barrier (1954), 19, 51 To Autumn (1976), 120–121 To Blossoms, see Flower Songs (1986)

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Toccata alla giga for organ (Op. 37, no.1), 80 Toccata for String Quartet (1947), 18, 40 To Daffodils, see Flower Songs (1986) Today Christ is born (Heddiw ganed Crist) (1957), 56 To his friend Postumus ) To his wife ) see Ingravescentem Aetatem (Op.108) To Lesbia ) To The Poet (Op.171), 35, 191–192 Tower (Op.170), viii–ix, 35, 189–191 Tra Bo Dau (Two hearts remain), see Six Welsh Folk Songs (1982); Seven Folk Songs (2005) Traeth Bychan, see Five Landscapes (Op.87) (The) Tree of Life (Op.79), 25, 109–110 Trio for violin, cello and piano (Op.77), 105 Trio No. 2 for violin, cello and piano (Op.111), 147 Trio No. 3 for violin, cello and piano (Op.161), 183–184 Trio for violin, viola and cello (Op.1), 18, 43 (The) Trumpet Major (Op.103), vii, 28, 135–138 Trymder (Sadness), see Folk Song Suite (1962) Two Impressions for orchestra (1949), 18, 44 Two pieces for trombone and piano (1990), 166 Two songs for bass voice and piano (Op.2), 17, 46 Two songs for voice and piano (1946), 38 Two songs from Glamorgan for tenor and piano (1990), (2000), 166 Two Welsh Folk Songs (1967), 91 Two Welsh Nursery Tunes (1959), 63 Tymhorau: Pedair o gerddi Gwyn Thomas (Op.155), ix, 34, 179–180 Variants for orchestra (Op.47), 23, 88–89 Variation [No. 2: Nocturne] on a Welsh Folk Song (1966), 89 Variations for flute, clarinet harp, two violins, viola and cello (Op.28), 74 Variations for orchestra (Op.31), 22, 76 Vesper Canticle (1992), 33, 169 Voyagers (Op.75), 27, 29, 127–128 Weep no More, see Seven Songs for Tenor and String Quartet (1949) Welsh Airs and Dances (1975), 26, 118–119 Welsh Dances for Brass Band (Opus 123a), 158 Welsh Dances: suite No. 4 for symphonic wind band (1989), 164 Whale Hunting (1950), 18, 46 What is the point of flying, see Songs of Exile (Op.133)

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What the Old Man Does is Always Right (Op.93), vii, 27, 31, 124–125 What tidings? (Op.38, no.1), 81 (A) widow bird, see Two Songs (1946) Winter Sunday at sea, see Voyagers (Op.75) (The) Wondrous Night (Nos fendigaid) (Op. 25, no.2), 71 Wrth Ddrws y Gorllewin Draw’ (By the door of the East yonder) (1966), 89 Wrth fynd efo Deio I Dywyn (Going with Deio to Towyn), see Folk Song Suite (1962) Y deryn pur (O gentle dove), see Six Welsh Folk Songs (1982) Y Gelynnen (The Holly), see Folk Song Suite (1962); Four Welsh Songs (Pedair Cân Gymreig) (1964) Y Saith Cysgadur (Once a Farmer and his Wife) (2002), 197 Yn y preseb ym Methlehem (In an manger in Bethlehem) (1952), 19, 49; see also Dwy Garol (1990) Ym Mhontypridd mae Nghariad (My love dwells in Pontypridd), see Welsh Dances for Brass Band (Op.123a); Seven Folk Songs (2005) Youth of the Day, see Ieuenctid y Dydd (1972)

Chronology I am indebted to Alun Hoddinott for his help in preparing this chronology.

1899 24 July

Birth of Thomas Ivor Hoddinott (father), Ryhmney Valley (Monmouth) (died 23 March 1974)

1900

Birth of Gertrude Hoddinott (née Jones), Wrexham

1923 15 August

Marriage of Thomas Hoddinott and Gertrude Jones

1929 11 August

Birth of Alun in Gilfach, Bargoed

1936 22 October

Makes his debut as a solo violinist when he plays Carse’s Frog Dance at the Bethania Chapel Vestry in Bargoed, having had lessons from Miss Morfydd Meyrick ARCM 15

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1937 September

The family move to Penllergaer (near Swansea) from Bargoed. AH continues violin studies with Morgan Lloyd and Garfield Phillips and then changes to a study of the viola

1940 September

Starts to compose and enters Gowerton Grammar School which, under the direction of Cynwyd Watkins, achieved a distinguished record in music

1941 15 June

Plays a violin solo at St. David’s Church, Pennllergaer

1942 17 December

Plays an instrumental duet (with Leighton Jenkins) at the Church Hall in Gowerton

1943 May

Awarded third prize for composition of an original melody and first prize for the open orchestral instrumental competition at the 3rd Annual Eisteddfod at Neath

7 November

Plays at another concert in Gowerton

1946

Wins a Glamorgan Music Scholarship to University College of South Wales. Founder-member (as a violin player) of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales when it is formed by Irwyn Walters (HMI)

23 November

Completes a setting of See, see the Shepherds Queen as part of a BMus exercise

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1947 15 May

Plays in a student concert at the Temple of Peace, Cardiff (Haydn’s Variations from the Quartet in C)

1948

Begins composition lessons with Arthur Benjamin

14 July

Arthur Benjamin writes to Hoddinott saying that he should tell his father that he, Benjamin, thought his son showed all the makings of a future composer

11 August

Completes the first movement of a Cello Concerto on his 19th birthday

18 November

Completes the composition of his Phantasy Overture for orchestra

13 December

In a letter to Mrs Hoddinott, Benjamin writes that Alun’s work is very much improved. Completes the Prelude and Fugue for String Trio

1949 5 May

His Nocturne for Orchestra (dated 1948) is broadcast from the BBC Studios in Cardiff

20 July

Receives a BMus degree at the University Congregation (University of Wales, Cardiff)

24 August

Completes his Harlequinade for orchestra

17 September

First performance of Pastorale for small orchestra in Cheltenham

17 November

Completes a version of A Lover’s Complaint for tenor and string quartet

1950 20 January 15 February

First broadcast performance of his setting of Drink Today Completes his Two Songs for Bass Voice (Opus 2)

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20 March

Plays the viola in a chamber music concert at the Temple of Peace in Cardiff. The programme includes Vaughan Williams’s Phantasy Quintet and movements 3 and 4 of his Trio for Strings (Opus 1)

31 March

First broadcast performance of his Toccata for String Quartet (which had been revised in January 1950, together with the Trio for violin, viola and cello (Opus 1)

15 April

Completes the revision of his Six Bagatelles in the form of diversions on five notes for String Quartet

3 August

First broadcast performance of Two Impressions for Orchestra

1951

Appointed as a Lecturer at Cardiff College of Music and Drama (Composition, harmony, counterpoint and chamber music)

19 January

BBC Wales broadcasts Whale Hunting, a documentary with incidental music by AH

15 March

First performance of his Clarinet Concerto (Opus 3) which is broadcast by the BBC

1952 2 April

First performance of the Nocturne for clarinet, violin and piano

1953 20 March

First performance of the Fugal Overture (Opus 4/2) by the BBC. This is dedicated to the composer’s wife

2 April

Marries Rhiannon Huws, daughter of the Rev. Llywelyn C. Huws, at the Carmel Chapel, GwaunCae-Gurwen (Llangiwg)

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22 September

First performance of the Nocturne for Orchestra (Opus 5), conducted by Trevor Harvey

7 December

First performance of Yn y Preseb ym Methlehem, a carol with words by his father-in-law

1954 Receives the Walford Davies Prize for Composition, which allows him, accompanied by his wife, to spend some time in Paris studying French music 3 May

Incidental music for The Time Barrier broadcast by BBC Wales

June

Oxford University Press starts to publish AH’s music

16 July

The Clarinet Concerto (Opus 3) is played at the Cheltenham Music Festival

20 September

His arrangement (commissioned by the BBC) of I send a Greeting is broadcast

5 December

Incidental music for Nowhere at Home is broadcast by BBC Wales

1955 January

Composes his Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra (Opus 8)

June

Completes composition of his Symphony No.1, which is performed at the Royal National Eisteddfod on 5 August

1956 27 May

Incidental music for The Meeting is broadcast by BBC Wales

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5 September

The Clarinet Concerto (Opus 3) is played at a Henry Wood Promenade Concert in London

8 December

First performance of his Septet (Opus 10) by the Melos Ensemble and commissioned by the BBC to mark the 10th anniversary of the Third Programme

1957 28 March

Birth of Huw Ceri (son)

5 April

Lectures in Swansea on six composers

16 May

The Arnold Bax Society Purse and Medal awarded to AH as the British Composer of the Year

September

Completes composition of the Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (Opus 11)

1958 25 March

First performance of the Serenade for String Orchestra (Opus 13), having been completed in January 1958. The conductor is Thurston Dart

25 June

First performance of the Concertino for Viola and Small Orchestra (Opus 14) in Llandaff Cathedral

28 June

First performance of the Four Welsh Dances [Set 1] for Orchestra (Opus 15) commissioned by the BBC for the 1958 BBC Festival of Light Music

23 August

First performance at a Henry Wood Promenade Concert of the Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (Opus 11)

1959

Returns to University College in Cardiff as lecturer in music

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20 June

First performance of the Nocturne and Dance (Opus 16/2) for harp and orchestra, commissioned by the BBC for the 1959 BBC Festival of Light Music

12 July

First performance of the Piano Sonata No.1 (Opus 17), commissioned by the 1959 Cheltenham Festival

18 November

Incidental music for Esther, a radio drama is broadcast by BBC Wales

1960 22 February

First performance of the Concerto No.1 for Piano, Wind and Percussion (Opus 19) in London

28 February

First performance of the Sextet (Opus 20) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

July

The degree of D. Mus (Wales) is conferred on AH at the University of Aberystwyth

5 August

First performance of the Concerto No.2 for Piano and Orchestra at the Royal National Eisteddfod

10 August

Piano Concerto No.1 (Opus 19) is played at a Henry Wood Promenade Concert

26 December

The film Sword of Sherwood Forest is put out on general release with the music score by AH

1961 March

Completes the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Opus 22) which has its first performance in Birmingham Town Hall on 30 March

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23 June

The Race of Adam (Opus 23), a masque, has its first performance in Llandaff Cathedral

1962 May

Completes Job (Opus 24), an oratorio commissioned by BBC Wales, and which has its first performance in Swansea on 18 May

11 July

Symphony No.2 (Opus 29) is given its first performance at the Cheltenham Music Festival

1963 4 August

Variations for Orchestra (Opus 31), written for the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, is given its first performance at the Royal National Eisteddfod

26 November

The Divertimento for wind instruments (Opus 32) is given its first performance in Cardiff

1964 1 May

First performance of Jack Straw (Opus 35)

22 May

Danegeld (Opus 33), commissioned for the Cork International Choral Festival, is given its first performance

12 July

The Sonata for Harp (Opus 36) is given its first performance at the Cheltenham Music Festival

1965 20 May

Dives and Lazarus (Opus 39) is given its first performance at the Farnham Festival

11 June

The Concerto Grosso (Opus 41) for Chamber Orchestra is given its first performance at the Caerphilly Music Festival

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1966 12 July

First performance of Concerto No.3 for Piano and Orchestra (Opus 44) at the Cheltenham Music Festival

28 July

First performance of the Concerto Grosso No.2 (Opus 46) at the Royal National Eisteddfod

10 September

First performance of the String Quartet No. 1 (Opus 43) which was completed in July

2 November

First performance of Variants for Orchestra (Opus 47), commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, at the Royal Festival Hall in London

1967

Appointed Professor of Music at the University in Cardiff. The Cardiff Festival of 20th Century Music is established by AH and John Ogdon

19 June

First performance of the Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (Opus 51) at the Llandaff Festival

14 December

The Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (Opus 50) is given its first performance at the Wigmore Hall in London

1968 January

Completes the Nocturnes and Cadenzas for clarinet, violin and cello (Opus 53)

February

Completes the composition of An Apple Tree and a Pig (Opus 55)

March

Receives the John Edwards Memorial Award from the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music

11 July

First performance of the Divertimento for Eight Instruments (Opus 58) at the Cheltenham Festival

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September

Completes the composition of Barti Ddu (Opus 59), written for the Caernavonshire Education Authority on the occasion of the Investiture of the Prince of Wales

24 November

First performance in Aberdeen of Fioriture (Opus 60), commissioned by the BBC and dedicated to Michael Tippett

5 December

First performance of Symphony No.3 (Opus 61) by the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester

1969 27 February

First performance of Nocturnes and Cadenzas for cello and orchestra (Opus 62), commissioned by the BBC

16 April

First performance of Four Welsh Dances [Set 2] for Orchestra by the National Youth Orchestra of Wales

3 June

First performance of the Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (Opus 65) in Llandaff Cathedral

22 June

First performance in London of the Investiture Dances (Opus 66)

1 July

First performance of Eryri in Caernarfon Castle at the Investiture of the Prince of Wales

14 December

First performance of Symphony No.4 (Opus 70) by the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester

1970 10 March

First performance of the Sinfonietta No.3 in Swansea

16 April

First performance of the Suite No.1 for Orchestra (Opus 72/1) in Southampton

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Summer

Visits Asolo and spends some time with the Italian composer Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973)

8 October

First performance of ‘the sun, the great luminary’ (Opus 76) in Swansea

1971 25 March

An honorary RAM (London) is conferred on AH

7 April

Conducts the first performance of his Concertino for horn, trumpet and orchestra (Opus 72/2)

July–August

Visits Buggiano Castello and stays with H.C. Robbins Landon

25 August

First performance of The Tree of Life (Opus 79) at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester

8–23 October

Tours America (San Francisco, New York) with Pendyrus Male Choir and conducts Four Welsh Songs at some of the 12 concerts

1972 2 March

First performance of the Quintet for piano and strings (Opus 78/4) at Lancaster University

August–September

Composer in Residence at the European Summer School for orchestral music at Les Avants-Segromio Monte (near Montreux), where he completes composition of ‘the hawk is set free’ (Opus 72/5)

21 September

First performance of the hawk is set free (Opus 72/5) by the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra

10 October

Introduces music at a Youth and Music Concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

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1973 6 March

First performance of Symphony No.5 (Opus 81) at the Royal Festival Hall in London

Summer

Visits the University of Texas at Austin as Composer-Conductor

10 July

Choral concert at the University of Texas where The Silver Swimmer (Opus 84) is given its first performance while AH visits the University as Composer-Conductor. Other works performed include Puer Natus, Four Welsh Songs, Out of the Deep and Rebecca

1974 26 March

First public performance of The Beach ofFalesa (Opus 83) in Cardiff by Welsh National Opera

3 May

First performance of Ritornelli (Opus 85) at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

1975 27 May

First performance of Five Landscapes (Opus 87) for tenor and piano in Cardiff

8 August

First performance of Landscapes (Opus 86) at the Royal National Eisteddfod

21 August

First performance of Welsh Airs and Dances in Cardiff

1976 11 February

First performance of The Magician (Opus 88) on Harlech Television from Cardiff

24 July

First performance of A Contemplation upon Flowers (Opus 90) at the Fishguard Festival

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1977 4 March

First performance of the Italian Suite (Opus 92) in London

13 March

First performance of the French Suite (Opus 91) by the London Mozart Players in Cardiff

18 June

First performance of Sinfonia Fidei (Opus 95) at the Llandaff Festival

6 July

First performance of Passaggio (Opus 94) at the Cheltenham Music Festival

27 July

First performance of What the Old Man Does (Opus 93) at the Fishguard Festival

November

Visits the University of Texas at Austin where the Four Welsh Songs are performed on 13 November

1978 14 February

First performance of Nightpiece (Opus 86/2) in Swansea

6 March

First performance of the Sonata for Organ (Opus 96/2) in Cardiff

May

It is reported that AH and Myfanwy Piper are collaborating on an opera about Honoré de Balzac

13 August

First performance of Dulcia Iuventutis (Opus 97) in Cardiff

1979 January–March

Visits Paris, the Bahamas and the USA

26 February

First performance of Voyagers (Opus 75) in a broadcast from Cardiff

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15 March

Visiting composer and educator at Boston (USA) Conservatoire of Music

April

Scena for String Quartet (Opus 100/1) is used as a test piece at the International String Quartet Competition held in Portsmouth

12 July

First performance of the Ritornelli 2 (Opus 100/2) at the Cheltenham Music Festival

24 November

First performance of The Rajah’s Diamond (Opus 99) on BBC2

1980 5 February

First performance of The Heaventree of Stars (Opus 102) in Cardiff

March

Member of the panel for the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year Competition (Again in 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990–91 and 1991–92)

11 December

Fellowship of the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) is conferred on AH

1981 1 March

Receives the St. David’s Medal of the Welsh Society of New York during a visit to the USA

1 April

First performance of The Trumpet Major (Opus 103) at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester

6 June

Attends a garden party with his wife at Llanfair Court, Abergavenny in honour of the President of the National Welsh–American Foundation

29 July

First performance of Te Deum (Opus 105/1) at the Fishguard Festival

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First performance of Lanternes des Morts (Opus 105/2) at the North Wales Music Festival

1982 3 June

First performance of Doubles (Opus 106) at the St David’s Festival

1 August

First performance of Five Studies for Orchestra (Opus 107) by the National Youth Orchestra of Wales

October

Visits the University of Guelph (Canada) as a visiting professor

1983 1 January

Receives a CBE in the Birthday Honour’s List

9 January

First performance of Quodlibet on Welsh Nursery Tunes in Cardiff

6 March

First American performance of Voyagers (Opus 75) at Santa Barbara (University of California) while on a visit to the USA

10 April

First performance of Ingravescentem Aetatem (Opus 108) at Manhatten, Kansas

31 May

Attends Lennox Berkeley’s 80th birthday concert at the Purcell Room in London

23 November

First performance of Masks (Opus 109) at the Epsom Court House

1984 7 March

First performance of the Bagatelles for Oboe and Harp (Opus 112) in the Purcell Room, London

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15 June

First performance of Symphony No.6 (Opus 116) in Cardiff

2 September

First performance of Homage à Chopin (Opus 107/2) in Swansea

1 December

First performance of The Bells of Paradise (Opus 117) in St. David’s Hall, Cardiff

1985 March

Completes his anthem Christ is Risen for Sir Nicholas Jackson

5 March

First London performance of Quartet for Strings No.2 (Opus 113) at the Purcell Room

5 May

Divertimento (Opus 118) first performed in a broadcast from Salzburg

4 August

First performance of Fanfare and Variants for brass band in Bangor

1986 6 January

First performance of The Silver Hound (Opus 121) at the Royal Academy of Music in London

21 January

First performance of Sonata for Four Clarinets (Opus 104/2a) in Cardiff

5 July

First performance of the Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra (Opus 124) in Cheltenham Town Hall

22 July

First performance of the Concerto for Orchestra (Opus 127) at the Welsh Promenade Concerts in Cardiff

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28 July

Conducts the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra in a performance of ‘The sun the great luminary’ at a Henry Wood Promenade Concert

September–October

Visits the University of Texas at Austin

1987

Retires from the University of Cardiff

20 February

Conducts the first performance of Concerto No.2 for Clarinet and Orchestra (Opus 128) in Manchester

May–June

Visits East Germany with the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra. Lanternes des Morts (Opus 105/2) is performed at the Leipzig Gewandhaus (28 and 29 May); Dresden (3 June) and Zwickau (4 June)

22 November

Attends a performance of What the Old Man (Opus 93) in Copenhagen by the Royal Danish Opera

29 November

First performance of The Holy Son of God at the Advent Carol Service in St. John’s College Chapel, Cambridge

2 December

First performance of The Legend of St. Julian (Opus 124) in Llandaff Cathedral

1988 13 May

First performance of Quartet for Strings No.3 (Opus 130) at Shaw-cum-Donnington

1989

Retires from the Cardiff Festival

22 April

First performance of the Songs of Exile (Opus 133) in Cardiff

July

Composer in Residence at the Cheltenham Music Festival

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7 September

First performance of Star Children (Opus 135) at a Henry Wood Promenade Concert in the Royal Albert Hall, London

17 October

First performance of Symphony No.7 for Organ and Orchestra (Opus 137) in Swansea

27 October

First performance of Noctis Equi (Opus 132) by Rostropovich and the London Symphony Orchestra

1990 5 August

First performance of Emynau Pantycelyn (Opus 138) at the Royal National Eisteddod (Rhymney Valley)

2 December

First performance of The Coming of the Lord at the Advent Carol Service in St. John’s College Chapel, Cambridge

1991 2 January

Visits Rome and attends the premiere of the ballet Dawns and Dusks at the Rome Opera House

19 March

Receives a Fellowship from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff

7–22 May

Visits Japan with the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra on its Spring Concert Tour. Star Children (Opus 135) is played in Tokyo (13 and 19 May) and Komagana (17 May)

18 September

First performance of Set me as a Seal at the wedding of Jeremy Huw Williams and Manon Jenkins in St. John’s College Chapel, Cambridge

1 December

First performance of Saviour of the Nations at the Advent Carol Service in St. John’s College, Cambridge

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1992 1 April 15 May

First performance of Sonata No.5 for Violin and Piano (Opus 141) in New York First performance of the Vespers Canticle in Cardiff Cathedral

26 June

First performance of Paradwys Mai at the Lower Machen Festival

13 September

Visits Brussels and attends a concert given by the Pendyrus Male Choir and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra that includes the Four Welsh Songs

26 September

First performance of the Gloria (Opus 143/2) at the Tenby Festival

17 November

Visits Vienna when the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra gives a concert that includes Passaggio (Opus 94)

1993 30 January

First performance of Symphony No.9 (Opus 145) in Cardiff

16 July

Receives the honorary degree of D.Mus from the University of Sheffield

22 July

First performance of the Quintet (Opus 146) at the Gower Festival

1994 1 March

Completes the composition of the Missa Sancti David (Opus 148)

24 June

First performance of the Six Bagatelles (Opus 150) at the Lower Machen Festival

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30 July

First performance of Missa Sancti David at the Fishguard Festival

1995 22 July

First performance of the Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (Opus 154) in Cardiff

25 November

First performance of The Poetry of Earth (Opus 156) by the Cardiff Ardwyn Singers

1996 26 May

First performance of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in St. David’s Cathedral

6 June

First performance of the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 (Opus 153) in Cardiff

1997 22 August

First performance of Tymhorau (Opus 155) in Machynlleth

29 August

Receives the Glynd
r Award at the Machynlleth Music Festival

25 September

First performance of Tempi (Opus 164) at the North Wales Music Festival

1998 9 April

First performance of Mass of the Pilgrims (Opus 158) in Llandaff Cathedral

28 May

First performance of Grongar Hill (Opus 168) at the Beaumaris Festival

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1999 31 March

First performance of the Celebration Dances (Opus 169) in Cardiff

25 August

First performance of To the Poet (Opus 171) in Monmouth

25 September

First performance of Symphony No.10 (Opus 172) at the North Wales Music Festival

23 October

First performance of Tower (Opus 170) in Swansea

2000 22 March

First performance of La Serenissima (Opus 173) in London

26 April

Lanternes des Morts (Opus 105/2) is performed in Aix-en-Provence

28 July

First performance of Concerto for Percussion and Brass Band (Opus 175) at the Fishguard Festival

2001 29 September

First performance of Sonata for Piano No.13 (Opus 176) at the North Wales Music Festival

2002 13 July

First performance of Concerto for Euphonium and Orchestra (Opus 180) in Portcawl

2003 22 September

First performance of Dream Wanderer (Opus 178) at the North Wales Music Festival

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2004 1 March

First performance of Badger in the Bag (Opus 184) in Cardiff

6 March

First performance of Promontory of Dreams (Opus 183) in Wrexham

24 March

Awarded a Fellowship of the Welsh Music Guild

28 May

First performance of Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (Opus 185) in Brecon

2 September

First London performance of the Euphonium Concerto at a Henry Wood Promenade concert

26 November

Awarded ‘Cymry for the World’ honour at the opening of the Wales Millenium Centre in Cardiff

2005 9 April

Attends the wedding of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor when Celebration Tribute is played as the bride and groom leaves the Chapel

Catalogue of works

Compositions are arranged in the order they appear in the composer’s register, from 1946 to the end of 2005. Information supplied about each includes, wherever possible, the following: 1. The title of the work with opus number 2. Text(s) used and details about the authors of the texts 3. The body or person responsible for a work’s commission 4. The required performing forces 5. Dedication 6. Duration 7. First performance(s) 8. Publication details 9. Details of the manuscript 10. Recordings 11. Bibliography (items arranged alphabetically by title) 12. Notes 1946 DOVER BEACH For tenor and strings Text: Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) Sketches only EPILOGUE Song for voice and [piano] Text: A.E. Housman (1859–1936) Withdrawn 37

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QUARTET FOR STRINGS In four movements 1. Allegro con movimento 2. Allegro giocoso 3. Presto 4. Andante moderato Manuscript: signed by the composer Withdrawn RHAPSODY For violin and orchestra 1.1+1.1.1/2.0.0.0/solo violin and strings Manuscript: signed by the composer but not dated Withdrawn SEE, SEE THE SHEPHERDS QUEEN For [voice and piano] Text: traditional Elizabethan song Manuscript: signed by the composer and dated 23 November 1946 Notes: This work was an exercise for the composer’s BMus degree TWO SONGS For voice and piano (1) A widow bird (Percy B. Shelley) (2) Dawlish Fair (John Keats) Withdrawn 1947 ADAGIO FOR STRINGS Withdrawn CAPRICCIO For piano and orchestra (Allegro molto) 2.2.2.2/2.2.2+1.0/harp/perc/piano/strings

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Manuscript: signed by the composer but not dated Withdrawn DRINK TODAY Song for tenor and piano (Spiritament ma sempre distinto) Text: John Fletcher (1579–1625) Duration: 1’15” First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 20 January 1950 Clifford Bunford (tenor) Manuscript: dated 1947 Notes: This song was revised in 1949 Withdrawn MINIATURES For string trio Withdrawn PHANTASY OVERTURE For orchestra 2.2.2.2/4.2.2+1.1/timpani/percussion(1)/harp/strings Manuscript: dated 18 November 1947 Withdrawn PHANTASY STRING QUARTET Two versions of this work were written Withdrawn SIX BAGATELLES IN THE FORM OF DIVERSIONS ON FIVE NOTES For string quartet 1. Andante 2. Allegro 3. Adagio 4. Presto 5. Adagio 6. Allegro Duration: 13–14’

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Manuscript: dated 1947; Penllergaer, nr. Swansea, and revised 15 April 1950 Later withdrawn THEME AND VARIATIONS For string quartet Withdrawn TOCCATA FOR STRING QUARTET Duration: 4’ First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 31 March 1950 The Chamber Music Players Manuscript: dated 1947; revised on 1 February 1950 Bibliography: The Welsh Anvil, 5 (1953), 32–42 Withdrawn 1948 CONCERTO FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA In ? movements (only the first movement exists: Moderato Espressivo e Rubato) 2+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timp/perc(2)/solo cello and strings Manuscript: dated 11 August 1948 [the composer’s 19th birthday] Withdrawn DIRGE Song for tenor and piano Text: John Fletcher (1579–1625) Dedication: “To May Kendall, in admiration, and with gratitude” Duration: 2’ First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 13 January 1950 Clifford Bunford (tenor) Manuscript: undated Withdrawn Bibliography: The Welsh Anvil, 5 (1953), 32–42 Notes: Three other versions of this song exist in manuscript

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NOCTURNE FOR ORCHESTRA 2.2.2+1.2/2.2.2+1.0/timp/perc(1)/strings Duration: 5’ First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 5 May 1949 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas Manuscript: dated 1948 Withdrawn PRELUDE (Moderato) AND FUGUE (Allegro) For string trio (2 violins and cello) Duration: 7–8’ First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 31 March 1950 The Chamber Music Players Manuscript: dated December 1948 Bibliography: The Welsh Anvil, 5 (1953), 32–42 Withdrawn PRELUDE FOR TWO VIOLAS Withdrawn SERENADE For small orchestra (Andante moderato) 2.2.2.1/2.0.0.0/perc/harp/strings Withdrawn 1949 COME, AWAY, DEATH Song for [voice and piano] Text by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Withdrawn AN ADDRESS TO MELANCHOLY Four poems of C. Day Lewis (1904–1972), from Poems 1943–1947, for tenor solo and 13 instruments (1) Ending (Andante comodo) (2) The Heartsease (Lento con malincolia)

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(3) Song (Overtures to Death) (Moderato, con grazia) (4) Meeting [never completed] 2.1.1+1.0/0.0.0.0/3 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and double bass Duration: unable to trace Manuscript: numbers 1 and 2 are dated 24 April 1949 and number 3 is dated 3 May 1949 Bibliography: The Welsh Anvil, 5 (1953), 32–42 (C. Raybould) Withdrawn HARLEQUINADE For orchestra 2.2.2.2/4.3.2+1.0/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 6–7’ Manuscript: dated 24 August 1949 Withdrawn A LOVER’S COMPLAINT Song for tenor and piano Text: William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Duration: 4’ Withdrawn OTHER VERSION Arrangement for tenor and string quartet Manuscript: dated 17 November 1949 PASTORALE For small orchestra This was originally a movement of a suite for larger orchestra, and was re-scored for the Cheltenham Young People’s Orchestra in 1949. It is in three sections, the first and the last being slower, and more contrasting to the middle ‘scherzando’ Required performing forces: unable to trace Duration: unable to trace First performance: Cheltenham, the Hall of Pate’s Grammar School, 17 September 1949 The Cheltenham Young People’s Orchestra, conducted by John Kemp Withdrawn

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SCHERZO For small orchestra Duration: 2’30” Withdrawn SIX SONGS For tenor and string quartet Text: John Fletcher (1579–1625) (1) Farewell take love (Lento) (2) Drink Today (Allegro molto) (3) Weep no more (Adagio) (4) Song in the Wood (Moderato) Manuscript: dated 12 July 1948 (5) Fickliness (Adagio) (6) God Lyaeus (Vivace) Withdrawn SONATINA FOR VIOLA Withdrawn SONG OF DESTINY Cantata for mixed chorus (SATB) and double string orchestra Text: Walt Whitman (1819–1891) Withdrawn SYMPHONIC SUITE For orchestra Withdrawn TRIO FOR VIOLIN, VIOLA AND VIOLONCELLO (Opus 1) In four movements: 1. Allegretto grazioso 2. Allegro giocoso 3. Andante semplice 4. Allegro volante Duration: c.15’ First performance (movements 3 and 4): Cardiff, Temple of Peace, (University College), 20 March 1950

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Elinor Leyshon (violin), Alun Hoddinott (viola) and H. Davies (cello) First complete performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 31 March 1950 Chamber Music Players (broadcast by BBC Wales) First London performance: BBC, Broadcasting House, 25 September 1950 London String Trio First (public) London performance: Arts Council (4 St. James’s Square), 4 August 1953 Nono Lidell (violin), Cecil Aronowitz (viola) and Terence Weil (cello) (A SPNM Concert) Unpublished Manuscript: dated December 1949 TWO IMPRESSIONS For orchestra 1. Summer morning (Lento) 2. Afternoon on the river (Andante piacevole) 2.2.2.2/4.2.2+1.0/timpani/percussion(1)/harp/strings Duration: (1) 4’30”; (2) 4’00” First performance: (1) Cardiff, BBC Studios, 3 August 1950 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas (Broadcast in the BBC Welsh Home Service) (2) Cardiff, BBC Studios, 7 August 1950 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Arwel Hughes (Broadcast in the General Overseas Service of the BBC) Manuscript: dated 20 September 1949 Withdrawn 1950 CONCERTO FOR CLARINET (in A) AND STRING ORCHESTRA (Opus 3) In three movements 1. Capriccio (Allegro giocoso) 2. Arioso (Lento con malinconia) 3. Burlesco (Allegro piacevole) Violins I and II, violas, cellos and double basses

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Dedication: “To my parents” Duration: 14’ First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 15 March 1951 Fred Clements (clarinet) and the BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Arwel Hughes (broadcast by BBC Wales) Other early performances: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 21 February 1952 Fred Clements (clarinet) and the BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Arwel Hughes (broadcast by BBC Wales); London, BBC Broadcasting House, 20 April 1952 Jack Brymer (clarinet) and the London Classical Orchestra, conducted by Trevor Harvey (broadcast on the Third Programme); Cardiff, BBC Studios, 8 December 1952 Fred Clements (clarinet) and the BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott; London, EMI Studios, Abbey Road, 30 April 1953 Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) and the Jan Sedivka Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jan Sedivka (A SPNM concert) First public performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 16 July 1954 Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) and the strings of the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by John Barbirolli First performance at a Promenade concert: London, Royal Albert Hall, 5 September 1956 Gervase de Peyer (clarinet) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent Publication: Oxford University Press. Miniature full score and solo clarinet part © 1955. Arrangement for clarinet and piano © 1964 Manuscript: dated June 1950 Recordings: Decca SXL 6513 Bibliography: The Clarinet, 12 (Winter 1985), 14–17 (E.L. Wiley); Music Review, 17 (November 1956), 333–335 (H. Keller); Radio Times, 18 April 1952, 11 (H. Rutland); South Wales Evening Post, 19 July 1954, 7 (Anon.); The Times, 2 May 1953, 8 (Anon.); The Times, 17 March 1954, 11 (Anon.); The Times, 17 July 1954, 8 (Anon.) OTHER VERSION This concerto was used as part of the music for the two-act ballet Llyn-yfan, given at the Dolman Theatre, Newport on 12 July 1975

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LULLABY FOR MEDIUM VOICE AND PIANO (Opus 4 No. 1) Text: anonymous First performance: unable to trace. It may have been performed at the BBC (Studio D) in Cardiff on 5 December 1951 Unpublished TWO SONGS FOR BASS VOICE AND PIANO (Opus 2) Texts: John Fletcher (1579–1625) 1. A Melancholy Song 2. A Joyful Song Duration: 9’ First performance: Cardiff, The Castle (College of Music and Drama), 24 February 1955. Dennis Hunt (baritone) and Robin North (piano) Unpublished Manuscript: dated 15 February 1950 WHALE HUNTING Music for a radio documentary about the Antarctic whaling industry by Ross Cockrill. Produced by Elwyn Evans Music written for the following sections: Allegro; Moderato; Allegro molto; Moderato; Moderato; Allegro; Allegro; Moderato; Molto Lento; Moderato; Allegro Commissioned by: BBC Wales 2.1.2.1/2.2.3.0/timpani/ percussion (2)/ celesta and piano/harp/strings Duration: 10’ First performance: Cardiff, Charles Street Studio, 5 January 1951 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Rae Jenkins. This recording was subsequently played in the Welsh Home Service on 19 January 1951 from 20:00 to 21:00 hours Unpublished Manuscript: sketches with the composer Notes: The alternative title for this documentary was There go the ships and the music is based on an old Norwegian sailors’ song

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OTHER VERSION Antarctic Journey Music for a radio drama by Ross Cockrill. Produced by Elwyn Evans Required performing forces: as above First performance: BBC Welsh Home Service on 25 January 1953 from 21:15 to 22:15 hours. The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Rae Jenkins 1951 DAN OWEN AND THE ANGEL JOE Music for a radio adaptation, by Ross Cockrill, of the novel by Ronald Mitchell. Produced by Dafydd Gruffydd Music written for the following sections: Andante moderato; Andante; Moderato; Moderato; Cappriccioso; Maestoso; Senza Misura; Lento; Molto Lento; Lento espressivo; Andante; Andante; Moderato; Moderato; Moderato; Poco moderato; Moderato; Maestoso Commissioned by: BBC Wales 2.2.2.2/2.2.2+1.0/timpani percussion (2)/celesta and piano/ harp/strings Duration of music: 14’ First performance: Cardiff, Charles Street Studio, 25 June 1951 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Rae Jenkins This recording was subsequently played in the Welsh Home Service on 3 July 1951 from 19:45 to 21:00 hours Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown A REQUIEM FOR THE LIVING For soprano solo, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra Text: Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) Withdrawn Bibliography: The Welsh Anvil, 5 (1953), 32–42 (C. Raybould) Notes: This work was written as an academic exercise

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ST. DAVID Music for a radio drama, written and produced by Elwyn Evans Music written for the following sections: Molto moderato; Allegro non troppo; Allegro; Allegro; Moderato; Moderato; Allegro; Allegramente; Adagio e misterioso; Adagio, non troppo Commissioned by: BBC Wales 2.2+1.2.1/2.2.3.0/timpani percussion (2)/celesta and piano/ harp/strings Duration of music: 8’45” First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 24 February 1951 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Rae Jenkins This recording was subsequently played in the Welsh Home Service on 28 February 1951 from 22:00 to 22:45 hours Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown 1952 THE JET-AGE METAL Music for a radio documentary, written and produced by Elwyn Evans Commissioned by: BBC Wales Required performing forces: unable to trace Duration of music: 7’25” First performance: Cardiff, Charles Street Studio, 2 December 1952 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Rae Jenkins This recording was subsequently played in the Welsh Home Service on 5 December 1952 from 20:00 to 20:45 hours Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown NOCTURNE For clarinet, violin and piano (Adagio flessibile) Duration: unable to trace First performance: Cardiff, Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre, 2 April 1952 Lionel Erenberg (clarinet), Terence Burke (violin) and Cynthia Everett (piano) (A City of Cardiff College of Music and Drama Concert)

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Manuscript: dated January 1952 Withdrawn NOCTURNE (Opus 5) For orchestra 2.2.2.2/2.2.2.0/timpani/strings Dedication: “To Trevor Harvey” Duration: 12’ First performance: London, BBC Studios, 22 September 1953 St. Cecilia Orchestra, conducted by Trevor Harvey. This was rebroadcast on 28 January 1954 when the composer conducted the BBC Welsh Orchestra First public performance: London, St. Pancras Town Hall, 19 April 1955 St. Cecilia Orchestra, conducted by Trevor Harvey Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1954 Manuscript: dated August 1952. In private hands Bibliography: The Chesterian, 29 (October 1954), 54–56 (C. Mason); The Listener, 50 (1 October 1953), 560 (A.C. Frank); Musical Times, 96 (June 1955), 321 (D. Mitchell); The Times, 24 April 1955, 17 (Anon.) YN Y PRESEB YM METHLEHEM [In a manger in Bethlehem] Carol for two voices (soprano and alto) and piano Text by Rev. Llywelyn C. Huws Commissioned by: ‘Carols Old and New’ Duration: 2’ First performance: Gorseinon, Seion Chapel, 7 December 1953 Children of the schools in Llwchwr UDC, conducted by William L. Bell, with Cyril Powell (piano) Publication: Carolau Hen a Newydd (Carols Old and New) NFMS Carol Book ©1953 Reprinted in 1968, 1972 and 1986, by the National Federation of Womens’ Institutes Manuscript: the composer

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OTHER VERSION In a Manger Carol arranged for voices and string orchestra English translation by Rhiannon Hoddinott First performance: Whitchurch, Wesleyan Methodist Church, 17 December 1953. Orchestra and Choir of Whitchurch Secondary School. No conductor indicated Unpublished 1953 FUGAL OVERTURE (Opus 4 No. 2) For orchestra Commissioned by: the British Broadcasting Corporation 2.2.2.2/2.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Dedication: “To my wife, 2.4.53” Duration: 10’ First performance: Cardiff, Charles Street (BBC Studios), 20 March 1953 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Arwel Hughes Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1953 Manuscript: dated February–March 1953 Bibliography: The Welsh Anvil, 5 (1953), 32–42 (C. Raybould) Notes: This is billed in Radio Times as Overture for Chamber Orchestra QUARTET (Opus 6) For clarinet, violin, viola and cello Duration: 20’ First performance: unable to trace Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown RICHARD SAVAGE Music for a radio drama by Gwyn Jones Produced by Dafydd Gruffydd Commissioned by: BBC Wales Required performing forces: unable to trace Duration: 5’ 45”

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First performance: Cardiff, Charles Street Studio, 11 May 1953 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Arwell Hughes This recording was subsequently played in the Welsh Home Service on 18 May 1953 from 21:15 to 22:30 hours Unpublished Manuscript: sketches with the composer 1954 I SEND A GREETING Welsh folksong arranged for unaccompanied mixed chorus (SATB) for a programme (‘Four Songs of the Four Nations’), devised by Elizabeth Poston Commissioned by: The BBC Duration: 2’ First performance: Programme broadcast by the BBC Home Service, 20 September 1954 between 18:30 and 18:50 hours Ena Mitchell (soprano), Nancy Evans (contralto), Rene Soames (tenor) and Gordon Clinton (baritone) Unpublished Manuscript: a sketch is dated 1954 NOWHERE AT HOME Music for a radio drama about George Borrow, written and narrated by Richard Hughes. Produced by Elwyn Evans Commissioned by: BBC Wales Duration of music: 1’30” First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 5 December 1954 Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Notes: A BBC memo, dated 30 August 1954, states that Alun Hoddinott should be commissioned to compose some Romany music, for Nowhere at Home. This music to be sung, unaccompanied, by two members of the cast. One of the pieces of music was sung twice THE TIME BARRIER Music for a radio drama by Cynric Mytton-Davies Produced by Dafydd Gruffydd Music written for the following sections:

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(1) Molto moderato (0’50”); (1A) Poco allegro (1’30”); (2) Andante (0’40”); (3) Andante (0’40”); (4) Andante (0’40”); (5) Andante (0’40”) (6) Andante (0’45”); (7) Allegro (3’00”); (8) Andante (0’40”); (9) AndanteMaestoso (1’0”); (10) Adagio (0’40”); (11) Adagio (0’40”); (12) Adagio (0’40”); (13) Adagio (0’40”); (14) Adagio (0’30”); (15) Repeat of number 10; (16) Adagio (0’50”); (17) Adagio (2’00”) Commissioned by: BBC Wales 2.2.2.2/2.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings First performance: Cardiff, Charles Street Studio, 23 April 1954 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Arwel Hughes This recording was subsequently played in the Welsh Home Service on 3 May 1954 from 21:35 to 22:50 hours Unpublished Manuscript: dated 15 April 1954 1955 CONCERTO FOR OBOE AND STRING ORCHESTRA (Opus 8) In four movements: (1) Romanza (2) Scherzo (3) Notturno (4) Capriccio Commissioned by: Evelyn Rothwell (Lady Barbirolli) : violins I and II, violas, cellos and double basses Duration: 20’ First performance: Sheffield, Firth Hall (Sheffield University, Western Bank), 13 October 1971 Thelma Marion (oboe) and the Sheffield Bach Players, conducted by Roger Bullivant First London performance: unable to trace Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1955 Manuscript: dated January 1955 IMPROMPTU For harp Duration: unable to trace

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First performance: Cardiff, Baucher Memorial Hall, 25 October 1956 Osian Ellis (harp) (A Cardiff Music Club Concert) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Withdrawn Notes: The impromptu may have been played the previous day in Barry SYMPHONY No. 1 (Opus 7) For orchestra In three movements (1) Adagio (2) Allegro assai (3) Grave-Maestoso Commissioned by: The Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music for the 1955 Royal Eisteddfod 3.3.3.3/4.3.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/ strings Duration: 35’ First performance: Pwllheli, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavillion, 5 August 1955 The Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott First broadcast performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 11 August 1955 BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1955 Manuscript: dated June 1955 Bibliography: The Chesterian 30 (October 1955), 52–54 (S. Goddard); Musical Times, 96 (September 1955), 490 (A.F. Leighton Thomas); South Wales Evening Post, 8 August 1955, 5 (R. Qualiton); The Times, 8 August 1955, 4 (Anon.) 1956 IMPROVISATIONS For clarinet and piano Duration: unable to trace First performance: Cardiff, The Castle (College of Music and Drama), 28 June 1956 Frank Kelleher (clarinet) and Ivor Bosanko (piano) (Specially written for the concert)

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Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Withdrawn THE MEETING Music for a radio drama by Dannie Abse Produced by Elwyn Evans Music written for eight sections, numbers 4 and 5 with voice Commissioned by: BBC Wales 0.0.1.0/0.1.0.0/timpani/percussion(3)/guitar/cello Duration of music: 9’ First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 27 May 1956 between 21:30 and 22:15 hours Frank Kelleher (clarinet), Ivor Bosanko (trumpet), C.G. Earnshaw, D. Hall and K. Morgan (percussion), Archie Slavin (guitar) and D.E. Williams (cello) Unpublished Manuscript: dated May 1956 NOCTURNE No. 1 (Opus 9) For piano Duration: 7’ First performance: Swansea, Assembly Room (University College), 22 February 1956 Robin North (piano) (A concert promoted by the Anglo-Welsh Society) First broadcast performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 23 April 1958 Eiluned Davies (piano) Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recordings: Lyrita RCS 27 SEPTET (Opus 10) For clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and piano In three movements (1) Moderato (2) Adagio (3) Allegro assai

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Commissioned by: the BBC for the 10th anniversary of the Third Programme Duration: 22’ First performance: London, BBC Studios, 8 December 1956 The Melos Ensemble (Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme) First London performance: Victoria and Albert Museum Museum, 28 February 1960 The Melos Ensemble First performance in Wales: Llandaff, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 28 April 1960 The Melos Ensemble Unpublished Manuscript: dated October 1956 Bibliography: Musical Times, 98 (February 1957), 78 (H. Ottaway) REVISED VERSION (1973) Textures were ‘thinned’ for this version which was recorded First performance: unable to trace Recordings: Argo ZRG 770 Bibliography: The Chesterian, 31 (Winter 1957), 93–96 (S. Goddard) 1957 BLOOD WEDDING Incidental music for the theatre play by Federica G. Lorca (1899–1936) Produced by June Griffiths Music written for the following: Act 1, scene 1 (slow); scene 2 (includes voices); scene 3 (repeated 3 times); Act 2: two scenes and Act 3: two scenes 0.0.1.0/1.1.1.0/percussion(2)/piano/harp/cello Duration of music: c. 35’ First performance: Cardiff, Cae’r Castell County School, 12 July 1957 Play performed by students of the City of Cardiff College of Music and Drama Frank Kelleher (clarinet), John Phillips (horn), Ivor Bosanko (trumpet), Nigel Mumford (trombone), James Edmunds and Clive Griffiths (percussion), Joan Staddon (piano), Novella Roberts (harp) and Barbara Rawlings (cello)

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Unpublished Manuscript: the composer CONCERTO FOR HARP AND ORCHESTRA (Opus 11) In three movements (1) Dialogue (Moderato) (2) Improvisation (Lento) (3) Fantasy (Allegro) Commissioned by: Osian Ellis 2+l.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/timpani/percussion (3)/strings Dedication: “for Osian” Duration: 19’

First performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 16 July 1958 Osian Ellis (harp) and the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott Publication: Oxford University Press © 1958 Manuscript: dated September 1957 Bibliography: London Musical Events, 13 (August 1958), 12 (Anon.) and 25–26 (background and analysis by Alun Hoddinott); London Musical Events, 13 (October 1958), 30–42; The Times, 17 July 1958, 4 (Anon.): The Times, 25 August 1958, 6 (Anon.) REVISED VERSION (1970) 2+1.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/timpani/percussion(2)/celesta/strings Duration: 17’30” First performance: unable to trace Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile Score © 1971 Manuscript: dated December 1970 Recording: Decca SXL 6513 OTHER VERSION This concerto was used as part of the music for the two-act ballet Llyn-y-fan, given at the Dolman Theatre, Newport on 12 July 1975 HEDDIW GANED CRIST [Christ is Born Today] Carol for women’s voices (SSA)

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Duration: unable to trace First performance: unable to trace Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown RONDO CAPRICCIOSO (Opus 12, No. 2) For tenor trombone and piano Duration: 4’ First performance: Cardiff, Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre (College of Music and Drama), 4 July 1958 John Lewis (trombone) and Pat Day (piano) (Specially written for this concert) Unpublished Manuscript: dated October 1957 RONDO SCHERZO (Opus 12, No. 1) For trumpet (in Bb) and piano Dedication: “For Ivor and Frank” Duration: 4’ First performance: Cardiff, Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre (College of Music and Drama), 4 July 1958 Ivor Bosanko (trumpet) and Frank Kelleher (piano) (Specially written for this concert) First broadcast performance: BBC, 21 September 1959 D. Mason (trumpet) and W. Parry (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score (with solo trumpet part) © 1958 Manuscript: dated July 1957 SERENADE FOR STRING ORCHESTRA (Opus 13) In four movements (1) Andante (2) Allegretto (3) Adagio (4) Allegro assai Commissioned by: Thurston Dart and the Philomusica of London violins I and II, violas, cellos and double basses

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Dedication: “for Thurston Dart and the Philomusica of London” Duration: 16’ First performance: London, University of London Union Assembly Hall, 25 March 1958 The Philomusica of London, conducted by Brian Priestman First performance in Wales: Bangor, Department of Music (University College, North Wales), 11 December 1958 College Small Orchestra, conducted by Robert Smith Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Score © 1958 Manuscript: dated January 1958 Bibliography: The Times, 26 March 1958, 3 (Anon.) 1958 CODIAD LLOER [Moonrise] Part song for men’s voices (TTBB) Text by Glyn Jones (1905– ) Commissioned by: University of Wales Council of Music Duration: 8’ First performance: Rheinfelden (Germany), September 1972 Unable to trace further details First British performance: Barry (South Wales) 18 October 1972 Unable to trace further details Publication: University of Wales Council of Music and University of Wales Press. Vocal score © 1960 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown CONCERTINO FOR VIOLA AND SMALL ORCHESTRA (Opus 14) In three movements (1) Andante (2) Allegro molto (3) Adagio Commissioned by: The Welsh Committee of the Arts Council 2.0.2.0/2.0.0.0/strings Dedication: “To S.G.” (i.e. Scott Goddard) Duration: 18’ First performance: Llandaff, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 25 June 1958

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Cecil Aronowitz (viola) and the Philomusica of London, conducted by Brian Priestman First London performance: unable to trace Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1958 Manuscript: dated March 1958 Recording: Argo ZRG 824 Bibliography: The Times, 26 June 1958, 4 (Anon.) OTHER VERSION Arrangement for viola and piano Viola part arranged by Cecil Aronowitz Publication: Oxford University Press © 1960 THE CRUCIBLE Incidental music for the theatre play by Arthur Miller Produced by June Griffiths First performance: Cardiff, the Glantaf County Secondary School, early 1958 (A production by students of the City of Cardiff College of Music and Drama) Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown THE FIRSTBORN Incidental music for the theatre play by Christopher Fry Produced and directed by June Griffiths First performance: Llandaff, the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 27 June 1958 The Student Theatre Company of Cardiff College of Music and Drama First London performance: Vanbrugh Theatre, 22 July 1958 Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: The Times, 23 July 1958, 5 (Anon.) Notes: The music by Hoddinott was recorded by students of the Music Department (College of Music and Drama) which was described as having ‘… a terrible hollow beauty’.

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FOUR WELSH DANCES [Set 1] (Opus 15) For orchestra (1) Moderato (2) Presto (3) Lento (4) Allegro Commissioned by: The British Broadcasting Corporation, for the 1958 BBC Festival of Light Music 2+1.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(1)/harp/strings Duration: 8’ First performance: London, Royal Festival Hall, 28 June 1958 The BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Vilem Tausky (Broadcast in the BBC Light Programme) Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1959 Manuscript: dated May 1958 Recordings: HMV ASD 2739; re-issued: Oriel ORM 1001 Bibliography: Musical Times, 99 (August 1958), 440–441 (H. Rutland) OTHER VERSIONS Two Welsh Dances Arranged by David Stone for orchestra Lento (originally no. 3) Moderato (originally no. 1) 2.2.2.1/2.2.2+1.0/ timpani/percussion(2)/piano/strings Duration: 4’30” First performance: Salisbury, Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 28 August 1970 The British Youth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sid Sager Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1968 (Music for Amateur Orchestras series) Four Welsh Dances Arranged by Bram Wiggins for brass band These dances were used as part of the music for the two-act ballet Llyn-y -fan, given at the Dolman Theatre, Newport on 12 July 1975

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SUO-G
N [Lullaby] Welsh folksong arranged for orchestra Commissioned by: BBC Wales Required performing forces: unable to trace Duration: 2’15” First performance: Newport, School Hall, 26 September 1958 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Arwel Hughes (Broadcast in the Welsh Home Service as part of a programme Aelwyd y G
n (Songs of the Fireside) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Notes: See also Two Welsh Nursery Tunes, arranged for small orchestra and published in 1962 1959 ESTHER Music for a radio drama by Saunders Lewis Produced by Emyr Humphreys Commissioned by: BBC Wales Duration of music: 3’ First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 5 July 1959 This recording was subsequently played in the Welsh Home Service on 18 November 1959 between 20:20 and 21:00 (Act 1) and 21:15 and 22:25 (Acts 2 and 3) Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Notes: A memo, now in the BBC Written Archives (dated 12 June 1959), describes the music as consisting of: (a) Fanfares and introductory flourishes (b) Solo music for contralto voice, accompanied by horn, harp and flute, with the title Aroglau Mwsg [The smell of musk] NOCTURNE No. 2 (Opus 16 No. 1) For piano Duration: 4’ First performance: London, 13 March 1959 Unable to trace the pianist Publication: Novello & C. Ltd. Piano score © 1964 Recording: Lyrita RCS 27

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NOCTURNE AND DANCE (Opus 16 No. 2) For harp and orchestra Commissioned by: The British Broadcasting Corporation for the 1959 Festival of Light Music 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(3)/celesta/strings Duration: 8’ First performance: London, Royal Festival Hall, 20 June 1959 Osian Ellis (harp) and the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Stanford Robinson Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1959 Manuscript: dated March 1959 DERIVED WORK Prelude, Nocturne and Dance (Opus 16b, 1990) Concertante for harp and string orchestra Presto; Andantino; Vivo violins, violas, cellos and double basses Duration: c. 11’ First performance: unable to trace. Aline Brewer was to have recorded the work for the Oriana Label, as part of a commemorative album sponsored by the Euro-tunnel Corporation and featuring the Primavera Orchestra of Kent, conducted by Paul Manley Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd Manuscript: whereabouts unknown SONATA No. 1 (Opus 17) For piano In four movements (1) Andante (2) Allegro (3) Adagio (4) Allegro Assai Commissioned by: The 1959 Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music

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Duration: 17’ First performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 12 July 1959 Valerie Tryon (piano) First London performance: Wigmore Hall, 31 January 1960 Valerie Tryon (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Piano score © 1960 Manuscript: dated June 1959 Recording: Lyrita RCS 27 Bibliography: Musical Times, 100 (September 1959), 472–473 (N. Goodwin); The Times, 13 July 1959, 9 (Anon.); The Times, 17 July 1959, 2 (Anon.); The Times, 1 February 1960, 3 (Anon.) TWO WELSH NURSERY TUNES Arranged for small orchestra (1) Suo-gn (Lullaby) Andante espressivo (2) Pedoli (Shoeing Song) Allegretto 2.2.2.2/2.2.3.0/percussion(2)/celesta/harp/strings Dedication: “For HUW CERI” (the composer’s son) Duration: 5’30” First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 22 January 1961 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott First London performance: unable to trace Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1962 Manuscript: the composer 1959–1962 JOB (Opus 24) An oratorio for bass solo, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra Text: Welsh text (from the Book of Job and the Psalms) arranged by Aneurin Talfan Davies Commissioned by: BBC (Wales) 2+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion (3)/harp/strings Dedication: “To Trevor Anthony” Duration: 1’05” First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 18 May 1962

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Trevor Anthony (bass), members of the Ammanford Choral Society and the BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Arwell Hughes (A BBC Welsh Festival of Music) Publication: Oxford University Press Manuscript: dated May 1962 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 10 (August 1962), 30–31 (K. Loveland); South Wales Evening Post, 19 May 1962, 4 (F. Tyler); The Times, 16 February 1962, 15 REVISED VERSION (1977) In 1977, the composer revised the work. The instrumentation was lightened and the choir writing thinned to male (TTBB) chorus only Duration: c.60’ First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 8 May 1979 Paul Wilson (bass), the BBC Welsh Choral Society, the Cardiff Bach Choir and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vernon Handley Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 27 (July 1979), 44–45 (C. Kobrak) 1959–1963 SONATINA (Opus 18) For clavichord or piano In four movements (1) Prelude (Moderato) (2) Scherzo (Allegro e leggiero) (3) Elegy (Adagio) (4) Finale (Presto) Commissioned by: Stainer & Bell Ltd. Dedication: “To Thurston Dart” Duration: 8’ First performance: unable to trace Publication: Stainer & Bell Ltd. Score © 1964 Manuscript: whereabouts unknwon Recording: Elegy only-Lyrita RCS 27

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1960 CONCERTO No. 1 (Opus 19) For piano, wind and percussion In four movements (1) Moderato (2) Presto (3) Lento (4) Allegro Commissioned by: The Wind Music Society 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion (3)/solo piano Dedication: “To Valerie Tryon” Duration: 20’ First performance: London, Town Hall (Chelsea), 22 February 1960 Valerie Tryon (piano) and the Polyphonia Orchestra, conducted by Bryan Fairfax First performance at a Promenade concert: London, Royal Albert Hall, 10 August 1960 Valerie Tryon (piano) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maurice Miles Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1961 Manuscript: dated February 1960 Bibliography: Musical Times, 101 (April 1960), 246 (H. Rutland); Musical Times, 101 (October 1960), 642–643 (J. Emery); The Times, 11 August 1960, 12 (Anon.) CONCERTO No. 2 (Opus 21) For piano and orchestra In three movements: (1) Moderato (2) Adagio (3) Allegro molto Commissioned by: The Music Committee of the Royal National Eisteddfod, 1960 2+1.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/strings Dedication: “To Ian Bruce” Duration: c.20’

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First performance: Cardiff, Eisteddfod Pavilion, 5 August 1960 Valerie Tryon (piano) and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott First London performance: BBC Welsh Home Service, 20 June 1961 Valerie Tryon (piano) and the BBC Scottish Orchestra, conducted by Maurice Miles Publication: Oxford University Press. Score (arrangement for two pianos) © 1968 Manuscript: dated July 1960 Recordings: Decca SXL 6606 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 9 (October 1960), 35 (K. Loveland); The Times, 6 August 1960, 6 (Anon.); The Times, 8 August 1960, 5 (Anon.) ENTRY For orchestra A contribution to a suite, the other contributors being: Geoffrey Bush (‘Hornpipe’) Thea Musgrave (‘Air’) Iain Hamilton (‘Swing Jig’) Commissioned by: Dr. W. Greenhouse Allt, Chairman of the Royal Concert and Principal of Trinity College of Music for the 1960 Royal Concert 3.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion/strings Duration: 3’ First performance: London, Royal Festival Hall, 22 November 1960 The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hugo Rignold Publication: Mills Music Ltd. Full score © 1960 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: Musical Events, 16 (January 1961), 6–7 (E. Chapman); Musical Opinion, 84 (January 1961), 216 (C.G–F.); The Times, 23 November 1960, 15 (Anon.) PEMBROKESHIRE, MY COUNTY Music for the documentary film directed by Ronald Stark Production Company: Esso Petroleum Company Script by Stanley Goulder Editor: Wesley Hyde Narration: Hywel Davies

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Music written for the following: 1 M 1 (0’ 28”); 1 M 2 (3’ 11”); 1 M 3 (2’ 36”); 1 M 4 (4’ 41”); 2 M 1 (3’ 28”); 2 M 2 (2’ 33”); 2 M 3 (0’ 11”); 2 M 4 (1’ 35”); 3 M 1 (5’ 00”); 3 M 2 (1’ 00”); 3 M 3 (0’ 20”); 3 M 4 (1’ 20”); 3 M 5 (1’ 24”) 2.1.2.1/4.2.2.0/timpani/percussion(1)/celesta/harp/strings Duration (of film): 27’ Release date: 6 September 1960 Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: Monthly Film Bulletin, 28 no. 324 (January 1961), 13 (Anon.) Notes: The music was recorded on 4 May 1960 SEXTET (Opus 20) For flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola and cello In five movements (1) Allegro (2) Moderato (3) Presto (4) Adagio (5) Maestoso Dedication: “To David Wynne” Duration: 19’–20’ First London performance: London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 28 February 1960 The Melos Ensemble First performance in Wales: Llandaff, the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 28 April 1960 The Melos Ensmble Publication : Oxford University Press. Facsimile miniature score © 1967 Manuscript: dated April 1960 Bibliography: The Times, 1 March 1960, 13 (Anon.); The Western Mail, 30 April 1960, 5 (A. Yates) DERIVED WORK DramaDance (1981) Ballet based on Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms

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First performance: London, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 7 July 1981 American Ballet Company Bibliography: The Times, 8 July 1981, 11 (J. Percival) SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST Music for the feature film directed by Terence Fisher Production company: Hammer/Yeoman Script by Alan Hackney Duration (of film): 80’ Musical direction: John Hollingsworth Release date: 26 December 1960 Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: Monthly Film Bulletin, 28 (February 1961), 25 (Anon.) Notes: The music was recorded on the 8 and 9 September 1960 1961 CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (Opus 22) In four movements (1) Lento (2) Allegretto (3) Adagio (4) Allegro molto Commissioned by: The John Feeney Charitable Trust for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, 1961 2+1.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 25’ First performance: Birmingham, Town Hall, 30 March 1961 Manoug Parikian (violin) and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hugo Rignold Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1961 Manuscript: dated March 1961 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 9 (May 1961), 30–31 (J. Coates); Musical Events, 16 (May 1961), 11–12 (E.E. Doherty); Musical Times, 102 (May 1961), 303 (E.E. Doherty); The Times, 1 April 1961, 3 (Anon.)

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GREAT ART THOU, O GOD Anthem for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text by Gwynno James Written for the wedding of Joanna Gethin Lewis and Christopher Cory Duration: 4’ First performance: Llandaff, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 30 September 1961 The Cathedral Choir with Robert Joyce (organ) Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1962 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Western Mail, 2 October 1961, 4 (J. Parry-Jones) THE HORSEMASTERS Music of the feature film directed by William Fairchild Production company: Walt Disney Script by Ted Willis Music composed for the following: 1.M.1: opening titles; 1.M.2; 1.M.3; 2.M.1; 2.M.2; 3.M.1; 3.M.2: gallop; 3.M.3: montage of jumping; 4.M.1; 4.M.2; 5.M.1: Pinski getting on horse; 5.M.2; 5.M.4; 5.M.5: quarry jumping section; 6.M.1; 6.M.2; 6.M.3; 6.M.4; 7.M.1; 7.M.2: Janet and David walking; 7.M.3; 7.M.4: chase for stallion; 7.M.5; 7.M.7; 8.M.1; 9.M.1; 9.M.2: Strumming Song, composed by Stanley Black); 10.M.1: closing titles Duration (of film): 87’ Musical director: Muir Mathieson Release date: 27 August 1961 Unpublished Manuscript: sketches with the composer Bibliography: Monthly Film Bulletin, 28 (August 1961), 14 (Anon.) Notes: The music was recorded on the 13, 14, and 16 February 1961 THE RACE OF ADAM (Opus 23) A masque for soloists (soprano, treble, tenor and bass), narrator, mixed chorus (SATB), boys’ voices, organ, troupe of mimers and orchestra Text: arranged from medieval cycles, by W.M. Merchant. Settings: John Piper

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Part one: Prologue (Moderato) Scene 1: Creation (Adagio) Scene 2: The Death of Abel (Moderato) Scene 3: The Deluge (Allegro) Scene 4: Abraham and Isaac (Andante) Scene 5: Moses and the Law (Moderato) Part two: Scene 1: St. John’s Prologue (Andante) Scene 2: The Holy Nativity (Moderato) Scene 3: The Ministry and Miracle of Christ (Moderato) Scene 4: The Passion and Resurrection (Adagio) Scene 5: The Last Judgement (Moderato) Scene 6: Conclusion, Psalm 24 Commissioned by: The 1961 Llandaff Festival 2+1.2+1.2.2/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(4)/harp/strings Duration: 2 hours First performance: Llandaff, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 23 June 1961 A company of 40 singers, actors and dancers, and students of Cardiff College of Music and Drama; Children of Llandaff City Junior School; Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society; Llandaff Cathedral Choir and a section of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with April Cantelo (soprano), David Galliver (tenor), Trevor Anthony (bass) and V. Anthony Lewis (organ), conducted by Robert Joyce. Directed by Clifford Williams Unpublished Manuscript: dated June 1961 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 9 (August 1961), 17 and 30(K. Loveland); Musical America, 81 (August 1961), 12–12 (M. Cooper); The Times, 27 June 1961, 7 (Anon.); The Western Mail, 12 June 1961, 6 (R.E. Jones); The Western Mail, 17 June 1961, 9 (M. Merchant); The Western Mail, 9 January 1962, 4 (E.M. Roberts) REBECCA (Opus 26) Ballad for unaccompanied mixed chorus (SATB) Text: Jon Manchip White Commissioned by: Oxford University Press

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Duration: 8’ First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 21 June 1962 The Elizabethan Singers, conducted by Louis Halsey Publication: Oxford University Press (New York). Vocal score © 1962 Manuscript: dated December 1961 Recording: GPWM HOR-PR-7 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 10 (August 1962), 42–43 (L. HughesJones); Musical Times, 103 (August 1962), 551 (A. Porter) RONDO SCHERZO (Opus 25 No. 1) For piano Commissioned by: The Welsh Arts Council First performance: 27 October 1961 Joyce Hedges (piano) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown THE WONDROUS NIGHT [Nos fendigaid] (Opus 25 No. 2) Christmas carol for unaccompanied women’s voices (SSA) Text: Revd Llywelwyn C. Huws Duration: 3’ First performance: Cardiff, Aberdare Hall (University College, Cardiff), 3 December 1961 Unable to trace performers Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1962 (English and Welsh texts) Manuscript: dated November 1961 1962 FOLK SONG SUITE For orchestra (1) Y Gelynnen [The Holly] (Allegro) (2) Hw’Mlaen [Ox-driving song] (Moderato) (3) Cân Serch [Love Song] (Adagio) (4) Croen y Ddafad Felan [The Yellow Sheepskin] (Allegretto) (5) Trymder [Sadness] (Andante) (6) Wrth fynd efo Deio I Dywyn [Going with Deio to Towyn] (Allegretto) (7) Lisa Lân [Fair Lisa] (Lento) (8) Modryb Neli [Aunt Nellie] (Allegro)

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Commissioned by: T.W.W. Limited (Independent Television for South Wales and the West of England) 2.1.2.1/2.2.2.0/timpani/percussion(1)/harp/strings Duration: 27’ First performance: TWW, 29 April 1962 Unpublished Manuscript: dated April I962 DERIVED WORK Folk Song Suite (1965) Consisting of numbers 4, 2, 3 and 8 Required performing forces: as above Duration: 10’ First performance: unable to trace Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1965 JACKIE THE JUMPER Incidental music for the theatre play by Gwn Thomas Décor by Michael Annals Lighting by Robert Ornbo Directed by John Dexter Flute/piccolo, trumpet, percussion(1) and harp First performance: London, Royal Court Theatre, 1 February 1963 Norman Knight (flute and piccolo); Cliff Haines (trumpet), Martin Aston (percussion) and Elisabeth Coates (harp) Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Notes: The music consisted of arrangements and adaptations of Welsh hymns and folk songs SONATA No. 2 (Opus 27) For piano In three movements (1) Moderato (2) Adagio (3) Allegro

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Commissioned by: The Macnaghten Concerts Duration: 14’ First performance: London, Arts Council Drawing Room (4 St. James’s Square), 16 February 1962. Colin Kingsley (piano) First broadcast performance: BBC Welsh Home Service. 29 March 1963 Valerie Tryon (piano) Publication: Novello & Co. Ltd. Score © 1964 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recordings: HMV ALP 2098/ASD 645; Lyrita RCS 27 Bibliography: Sleeve notes for the Nimbus recording (NI 5369) (G.Lewis); The Times, 17 February 1962, 4 (Anon.) SYMPHONY No. 2 (Opus 29) For orchestra In four movements (1) Adagio (2) Allegro molto (3) Molto adagio (4) Maestoso-Allegro-Maestoso-Presto Commissioned by: The 1962 Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Dedication: “To Alan Rawsthorne” Duration: 24’ First performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 11 July 1962 The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Schwarz Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1966 Manuscript: dated March 1962 Recordings: Pye Virtuoso TPLS 13013; re-issued: Oriel ORM 1003 Bibliography: Musical Opinion, 85 (September 1962), 721–725 (E.M. Webster); Musical Times, 103 (September 1962), 619–620 (R. Henderson); The Times, 12 July 1962, 14 (Anon.); The Western Mail, 21 July 1962, 5+7 (D. Wynne) OTHER VERSION Part of this score was used in the film The Secret World of Odilon Redilon (1973)

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VARIATIONS (Opus 28) For flute, clarinet (in Bb), harp, two violins, viola and violoncello Theme (Andante) March (Moderato) Nocturne (Adagio) Scherzo (Allegro molto) Waltz (Andante) Elegy (Adagio molto) Pastoral (Moderato) Finale (Presto) Commissioned by: The 1962 Anglesey Music Festival Duration: 8’–9’ First performance: Menai Bridge, David Hughes Secondary School, 7 April 1962 The Virtuoso Ensemble First broadcast performance: BBC Third Programme, 9 February 1964. The Virtuoso Ensemble Publication: Oxford University Press. Miniature score © 1963 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Times, 103 (June 1962), 410 (B. Rands) 1963 ANTIGONE Incidental music to the theatre play by Jean Anouilh (1910–1987) (translated by Lewis Galantiere) Produced by Meurig Wynn Owen First performance: Llantwit Major, Atlantic College, 22 March 1963 College Choir, conducted by Harry Potts Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown DIVERTIMENTO (Opus 32) For oboe, clarinet (in Bb), horn (in F) and bassoon In five movements (1) Overture (Maestoso) (2) Scherzo 1 (Presto)

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(3) Variations (Andante) (4) Scherzo 2 (Prestissimo e sempre) (5) March (Allegro) Written for the Portia Ensemble Dedication: “To Glyn Jones on his 60th birthday” Duration: 16’ First performance: Cardiff, Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre, 26 November 1963 The Portia Wind Ensemble First broadcast performance: BBC Third Programme, 23 March 1966 The Venturi Ensemble Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1965 Manuscript: dated November 1963 Recordings: Argo ZRG 770 FANFARE For three trumpets (in Bb), two trombones and drums Written for the Wales Celebration Ball Duration: c. 1’ First performance: Cardiff, City Hall, 14 November 1963 Bandsmen of the Welsh Guards Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: The Western Mail, 16 November 1963, 6 (Anon.) THREE MEDIEVAL SONGS (Opus 30) For unaccompanied women’s voices Text: translated and adapted by Charles Elliott Of the New Year (SSAA) Moderato In Praise of Ivy (SA solos and SSA) Andante Christ and Sinful Man (SSA) Allegro Commissioned by: Watney Mann Ltd for the 1963 Farnham Festival Duration: 7’–8’ First performance: Farnham, the Parish Church of St. Andrew’s, 15 May 1963 The Farnham Girls’ Choir, conducted by Mary Joynes Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1963

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Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Composer, no. 25 (Autumn 1967), 14–17 (A. Fluck); Musical Times, 104 (July 1963), 493 (E. Tracey); The Times, 16 May 1963, 16 (Anon.) VARIATIONS (Opus 31) For orchestra In nine movements (1) Prelude (Andante) (2) Nocturne (Adagio) (3) Scherzo (Allegro) (4) Pastoral (Moderato) (5) Romance (Andante) (6) Molto Perpetuo (Allegro molto) (7) March (Moderato) (8) Elegy (Adagio) (9) Finale (Allegro) Written for the National Youth Orchestra of Wales 2.1.2.1/2.2.1.0/timpani/percussion(3)/strings Dedication: “To Clarence Raybould” Duration: 10’ First performance: Newtown, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavillion, 4 August 1963 The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Clarence Raybould Unpublished Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Opinion, 87 (October 1963), 19 (A. Davies); Musical Times, 104 (October 1963), 721 (A. Davies); The Times, 5 August 1963, 11 (Anon.) REVISED VERSION (1964) Revised by the composer Publication: Novello & Co. Ltd. Full score and parts © 1966 Manuscript: the composer

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1964 BLODEUWEDD Incidental music for a TV drama by Saunders Lewis Produced by Emyr Humphreys Commissioned by: BBC Wales 1.0.0.0/1.0.0.0/timpani/percussion(2)/celesta and harpsichord/cello Duration of music: 9’30” First performance: Cardiff, Studio A, Broadway, 17 and 19 January 1965 Members of the BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott This recording was subsequently shown on BBC TV (Wales) on 1 March 1965 (St. David’s Day) between 21:30 and 22:45 hours Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown DANEGELD (Opus 33) Six episodes for unaccompanied mixed chorus (SATB) Text: R. George Thomas, adapted from The Battle of Maldron (1) Let the hawk fly (Andante) (2) Across the grey water (Adagio) (3) The sea swirled in (Allegro) (4) A Viking spear (Allegro) (5) The faithful thanes (Andante) (6) The snapped spear is gone (Adagio) Commissioned by: Lady Dorothy Mayer for the 11th Cork International Choral Festival (1964) Duration: 14’ First performance: Cork, City Hall, Friday 22 May 1964 The Glendower Singers, conducted by Arwel Hughes First broadcast performance: BBC Third Programme, 13 June 1966 The Glendower Singers, conducted by Arwel Hughes Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1966 Manuscript: dated March 1964 Bibliography: Musical Times, 105 (July 1964), 527–528 (C. Acton)

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EVERY MAN’S WORK SHALL BE MADE MANIFEST Anthem for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text: from I Corinthians III, vv. 13, 14, 8–11 Dedication: “for Christ Church, Llanishen” Duration: 4’ First performance: Llanishen, Parish Church of Christ Church, 15 March 1964 The church choir. Unable to trace the organist Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1964 Manuscript: dated February 1964 FOUR WELSH SONGS [Pedair Cân Gymreig] Arranged for unison voices and orchestra (or solo piano) Text: traditional Welsh words, translated and adapted by Rhiannon Hoddinott (1) Have you seen my mother? [Dacw Mam yn Dwad] (Allegretto) (2) Lullaby [Cysga di, fy Mhlentyn Tlws] (Andante) (3) Shoeing Song [Pedoli, Pedoli] (Moderato) (4) The Holly [Y Gelynnen] (Allegro) Commissioned by: The Royal National Eisteddfod, Newtown, 1965 2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/timpani (optional)/percussion/harp/strings Duration: 6’ First performance: Newtown, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavilion, 3 August 1965 Primary school choirs and Montgomeryshire Youth Orchestra, by Alan Paynes Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1965 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Times, 5 August 1965, 8 (Anon.) HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Introit for unaccompanied mixed chorus (SATB) Text by Bishop R. Heber (1783–1826) First performance: Brecon, Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist, 27 May 1964 Cathedral Choir directed by Bryan Hesford Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1964

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Manuscript: the composer JACK STRAW (Opus 35) Overture for orchestra Commissioned by: the Welsh Committee of the Arts Council 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/ harp (optional)/ strings Duration: 5’ First performance: Aberystwyth, King’s Hall, 1 May 1964 The New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 4, 14 February 1971 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by John Carewe Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd Manuscript: dated April 1964 REVISED VERSION (1980) The overture was re-scored in 1980 for a larger orchestra of triple woodwind, with the further addition of a tuba and extra percussion and harp. Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recording: Unicorn RHD 401 Bibliography: Musical Times, 105 (August 1964), 596 (A.F. Leighton Thomas) SINFONIA FOR STRING ORCHESTRA (Opus 34) In four movements (1) Intrada (2) Scherzo (3) Aria (4) Danza violins I and II, violas, cellos and double basses Duration: 12’ First performance: Bromsgrove, College of Education Hall, 19 April 1964 The Festival Strings and Wind, conducted by Joseph Stones Publication: A.Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1964 Score and parts on hire from Oxford University Press

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Manuscript: dated April 1964 Bibliography: Musical Times, 105 (June 1964), 446 (N.Fortune) REVISED VERSION The movements were re-titled to the following: (1) Maestoso (2) Presto (3) Adagio (4) Allegro First performance: unable to trace SONATA FOR HARP (Opus 36) In three movements (1) Moderato – inquieto (2) Adagio espressivo (3) Presto – alla tarantella Commissioned by: The 1964 Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music Dedication: “To Osian Ellis” Duration: 12’ First performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 12 July 1964 Osian Ellis (harp) First London performance: Law Society’s Hall, 28 January 1969 Osian Ellis (harp) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score (edited by Osian Ellis) © 1967 Manuscript: dated June 1964 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 17 (August 1969), 79 (D. Richards); The Times, 11 July 1964, 5 (Anon.) TOCCATA ALLA GIGA (Opus 37 No. 1) For organ Commissioned by: Oxford University Press Duration: 3’– 4’ First performance: Madrid, Almudena Cathedral. July 1964 Bryan Hesford (organ)

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First British performance: Little Walsingham, Parish Church of St. Mary, 12 August 1964 Bryan Hesford (organ) Publication: Oxford University Press (in Modern Organ Music, Book 1, edited by Bryan Hesford) © 1965 Manuscript: dated July 1964 Recording: BRAN B 1202 WHAT TIDINGS? (Opus 38 No. 1) Carol for unaccompanied mixed chorus (SATB) Text by John Audeley (15th century), adapted by Jacqueline Froom Commissioned by: Oxford University Press Duration: 3’ First performance: London, 18 December I964 The Elizabethan Singers, conducted by Louis Halsey Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score (included in Carols of Today) © 1965. Also available separately: vocal score © 1965 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recording: Argo RG 499; ZRG 5499 1965 AUBADE AND SCHERZO (Opus 42) For horn (in F) and string orchestra Commissioned by: BBC Wales violins I and II, violas, cellos and double basses Dedication: “To Jon Manchip White” Duration: 8’ First performance: Cardiff, New Theatre, 24 October 1965 James Diack (horn) and the BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Maurice Handford Publication: Oxford University Press. Miniature score © 1967; Solo horn part © 1967 Manuscript: dated September 1965 CONCERTO GROSSO No. l (Opus 41) For chamber orchestra In three movements

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(1) Maestoso (2) Allegro Molto (3) Grave Commissioned by: The South Wales Argos for the 1965 Caerphilly Festival 0.2.0.2/2.0.0.0/strings Duration: 16’ First performance: Caerphilly, Boys Grammar School, 11 June 1965 The English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Roy Bohana First London performance: Victoria and Albert Museum, 15 October1967 The Jacques Orchestra conducted by Alan Barlow First American performance: Glen Ellyn (Illinois), Performing Arts Center (College of Du Page), 17 January 1984 College Orchestra, conducted by H. Bauer Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1966. Oriana Publications © 2004 Manuscript: dated June 1965 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 13 (August 1965), 44 (K. Loveland); Musical Times, 106 (August 1965), 617–618 (M. Burtch); The Times, 16 October 1967, 7 (Anon.) DIVES AND LAZARUS (Opus 39) Cantata for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra (or organ) Text: Gwynno James Commissioned by: James Smyth Ltd for the 1965 Farnham Festival 2.1.2.1/0.2.1.0/timpani/piano duet/strings or for organ, piano duet and strings or for organ (in which case the player adapts the reduction in the vocal score) Duration: 17’ First performance: Farnham, Parish Church of St. Andrew, 20 May 1965 Valerie Walden (soprano), Christopher Haines (baritone), Colin and Julia Wilson (piano duet). The Choirs and Orchestras of Aldershot High School and Farnborough Grammar School, conducted by Peter Mound Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1965 Manuscript: dated January 1965 Recordings: Argo ZRG 824 Bibliography: Music in Education, 29, no. 314 (1965), 173–175 (M. Hurd); Musical Times, 106 (July 1965), 529–530 (W. Mann); The Times, 21 May 1965, 17 (Anon.)

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MEDIEVAL CAROL (Opus 38 No. 2) For medium voice and piano Text: freely adapted by Jaqueline Froom Duration: 4’ First performance: Cambridge, 27 October 1965.Unable to trace performers First London performance: 19 May 1968 Unable to trace performers Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1966 (Oxford Solo Songs) Manuscript: the composer QUARTET No. 1 FOR STRINGS (Opus 43) (1) Grave (tempo 1°) (2) Allegro molto (tempo 2°) (3) Meno mosso (tempo 3°) (4) Grave (tempo 1°) Commissioned by: The 1965 Aberystwyth Arts Festival 2 violins, viola and cello Dedication: “To Richard and Lucy Dynevor” Duration: 16’ First performance: Dynevor, The Castle, 10 September 1966 University Ensemble of Cardiff First London performance: Purcell Room, 5 June 1968 University Ensemble of Cardiff Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile miniature score © 1967 Manuscript: dated November 1965–July 1966 Recordings: Pye Golden Guinea CSGC/GSGL 14107 Bibliography: Musical Times, 107 (November 1966), 979–980 (J. Lewis); The Times, 6 June 1968, 13 (Anon.) SONATA No. 3 (Opus 40) For piano (1) Adagio, (Tempo I) espressivo e rubato (2) Allegro energico (Temp II) (3) Adagio (Tempo I) (Tempo II)

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Commissioned by: David Harries Dedication: “To Humphrey Searle” Duration: 10’ First performance: Banger, Powis Hall (UCNW), 8 March 1963 David Harries (piano) First London performance: Arts Council Drawing Room (4 St. James’s Square), 18 April 1966 John McCabe (piano) Publication: Novello and Co. Ltd. Score © 1966 (No. 2 in Virtuoso: A Modern Piano Series, edited by John Ogdon) Manuscript: dated March 1965 Bibliography: Sleeve notes for Nimbus recording (NI 5369) (G. Lewis); Melos, 38 (July/August 1971), 313–316 (B. Schiffer); Music and Musicians, 14 (June 1966), 60 (A. Payne); Musical Times, 107 (June 1966), 515 (S. Sadie); The Times, 19 April 1966, 14 (Anon.) 1966 ARABESQUE For violin and piano A contribution to ‘Violin Music for Young Players’, a volume dedicated to the memory of D. Roger Jones (1898–1965), Secretary of the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music between 1959–1965 Other contributors were Mervyn Burtch, Hubert Davies, William Mathias, David Harries, Ian Parrott, Bernard Rands, Mervyn Roberts, Robert Smith, Mansel Thomas, Gareth Walters, Grace Williams and David Wynne Commissioned by: The Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music Dedication: “To the memory of Roger Jones” Duration: c.2’30” First performance: unable to trace Publication: Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music. Score © 1972 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown CONCERTO GROSSO No. 2 (Opus 46) For orchestra In six movements

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(1) Intrada: full orchestra (2) Scherzo: woodwind/brass/percussion (3) Variazioni: full orchestra (4) Intermezzo: strings (5) Aria: 2 flutes/harp/solo violin (6) Finale alla Danza: full orchestra Commissioned by: The Welsh Joint Education Committee for the National Youth Orchestra of Wales 2.2.2.2/4.3.3.0/ timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: “To Clarence Raybould on the occasion of his 80th birthday” Duration: 16’ First performance: Ammanford, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavillion, 28 July 1966 The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Clarence Raybould First London performance: The Duke’s Hall (Royal Academy of Music), 25 March 1969 The Royal Amateur Orchestral Society Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1966 Manuscript: dated July 1966 Recordings: BBC Records REC 222 Bibliography: Musical Opinion, 90 (October 1966), 17–18 (A. Davies); Musical Times, 107 (October 1966), 886 (A. Davies); The Times, 4 August 1966, 6 (Anon.) CONCERTO No. 3 FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (Opus 44) In four movements (1) Cadenza (Maestoso e allegro non troppo) (2) Scherzo (Presto) (3) Notturno (Adagio) (4) Finale alla Marcia (Allegro molto) Commissioned by: The 1966 Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music 3+1.2.2+1.2/4.3.3.0/timpani/percussion(3)/celesta/harp/strings Dedication: “To John Ogdon” Duration: 23’

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First performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 12 July 1966 John Ogdon (piano) and the combined BBC Northern Orchestra and the BBC Midland Light Orchestra/ conducted by Maurice Handford First London performance: Royal Albert Hall, 20 August 1974 Martin Jones (piano) and the BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Boris Brott Publication: Oxford University Press. Score (arrangement for two pianos) © 1968 Manuscript: dated June 1966 Recording: RCA Red Seal RK 25082/RL 25082 Bibliography: Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, 127 (September 1966), 350–352 (H. Hollander); Musical Opinion, 89 (September 1966), 727 and 729 (E.M.Webster); The Times, 13 July 1966, 16 (Anon.); The Times, 23 August 1966, 8 (Anon.) INTRADA (Opus 37 No. 2) For organ Commissioned by: Oxford University Press Duration: 2’30” First performance: Cambridge, 15 July 1967 Unable to trace the organist Publication: Oxford University Press. Score (in Easy Modern Organ Music) © 1967 Manuscript: the composer NIGHT MUSIC (Opus 48) For orchestra Commissioned by: The New Philharmonia Orchestra 2.2.2.2/2.2.2.0/timpani/percussion(1)/strings Dedication: “To John Wright” Duration: 9’ First performance: Aberystwyth, 30 January 1967 The New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Sergiu Commissiona First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 21 December 1967 BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by John Carewe Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1967 Manuscript: It is dated December 1966 Recording: Argo ZRG 824 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 15 (April 1967), 47 (K. Loveland)

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OTHER VERSION Dawns and Dusks Ballet with choreography by John Butler First performance: Canada (1979) First European performance: Rome, Opera House, 2 January 1991 L’Orchestra del Teatro Dell’Opera conducted by Alberto Ventura PANTOMIME (Opus 45) Overture for orchestra Commissioned by: The Croydon Youth Orchestra for its 21st Anniversary Concert 2.2.2.2/3.3.3.0/timpani/percussion(1)/strings Duration: 3’ First performance: Croydon, Fairfield Hall, 16 July 1966 The Croydon Youth Orchestra, conducted by Ralph Nicholson Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1966 Manuscript: dated 1966 THE PIED PIPER Incidental music to Robert Browning’s poem Commissioned by: The Arthur Davison Orchestral Concerts for Children 1.0.2.0/2.0.0.0/strings First performance: Croydon, Fairfield Hall, 26 November 1966 Narrator: Dame Peggy Ashcroft with the Little Symphony of London, conducted by Arthur Davison Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Notes: This music is described in the programme as ‘a short overture and underlining dramatic highlights [written] in this musician’s unique style’. SONATA No. 4 FOR PIANO (Opus 49) Toccata 1 (Allegro agitato) Aria (Adagio flessible) Toccata 2 (Presto) Notturno (Lentissimo) Toccata 3 (Allegro con brio)

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Commissioned by: John McCabe Dedication: “To John McCabe” Duration: 11’ First performance: Manchester, Royal Northern College of Music, 12 December 1966 John McCabe (piano) First London: Arts Council Drawing Room (4 St. James Square), 27 February 1967 John McCabe (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1968 Manuscript: dated December 1966 Bibliography: Sleeve notes for Nimbus recording (NI 5369) (G.Lewis); The Times, 28 February 1967, 8 (Anon.) VARIANTS FOR ORCHESTRA (Opus 47) (1) Sonata (Moderato) (2) Toccata (Presto, ma sempre sotto voce e leggiero) (3) Variazioni (Andante) (4) Notturno (Lento) (5) Passacaglia (Andante) (6) Fuga (Presto) Commissioned by: The Royal Philharmonic Society in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(5)/celesta/harp/strings Dedication: “To Joseph Morgan” First performance: London, The Royal Festival Hall, 2 November 1966 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by George Hurst Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1967 Manuscript: dated October 1966 Recordings: Pye Virtuoso TPLS 13013; Re-issued in Oriel ORM 1003 Bibliography: Musical Events, 21 (December 1966), 30 (E. Chapman); Musical Opinion, 90 (February 1967), 247 (G.M.); Musical Times, 107 (December 1966), 1075 (W. Mann); Tempo, no. 79 (Winter 1966–1967), 15–17 (N. Kay); The Times, 27 October 1966, 6 (Anon.); The Times, 3 November 1966, 7 (Anon.)

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OTHER VERSIONS Part of this score was used in the film The Secret World of Odilon Redilon (1973) The music was also used in the Welsh Arts Council film Variants (1972) produced by Newport College of Art and Design (Film School) and directed by Michael Barnes VARIATION (No. 2: NOCTURNE) ON A WELSH FOLK SONG [‘BRAINT’] Contribution to the Severn Bridge Variations for orchestra, a composite work, by Malcolm Arnold, Alun Hoddinott, Nicholas Maw, Daniel Jones, Grace Williams and Michael Tippett, written to commemorate the first birthday of the BBC Training Orchestra, its first visit to Wales and the opening of the Severn Bridge Commissioned by: The BBC 3.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 2’32” First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 11 January 1967 The BBC Training Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Boult First London performance: Royal Albert Hall, 20 July 1976 The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Boris Brott (A Henry Wood Promenade concert) Unpublished Manuscript: the composer Recording: NNMC D062 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 15 (March 1967), 44 (K. Loveland); The Times, 13 January 1967, 14 (Anon.); The Times, 21 July 1976, 9 (W. Mann) WRTH DDRWS Y GORLLEWIN DRAW’ [By the door of the East yonder] Welsh folksong arranged for solo soprano and mixed chorus Text: T. Gwynn Jones Commissioned by: BBC TV (Wales) Duration: c. 3’ First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studio A, 27 March 1966 The Cardiff Polyphonic Choir, conducted by Roy Bohana

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(This was included in a programme Expecting Company, shown on BBC TV (Wales) Unpublished Manuscript: dated March 1966 1967 CONCERTO FOR ORGAN AND ORCHESTRA (Opus 51) In three movements (1) Toccata 1 – Notturno – Toccata 2 (Allegro brioso) (2) Variazioni (Adagio) (3) Scherzo – Alla Marcia (Allegro) Commissioned by: The 1967 Llandaff Festival 3.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.0/timpan/percussion (4)/strings Dedication: “To Herbert S. Parry” Duration: 16’ First performance: Llandaff, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 19 June 1967 Robert Joyce (organ) and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves First London performance: Royal Albert Hall, 1 September 1979 (A Promenade Concert) John Scott (organ) and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bryden Thomson Publication: Oxford University Press. Score (solo organ part with condensed orchestral accompaniment) © 1968 Manuscript: dated May 1967 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 16 (October 1967), 32 (K. Loveland); Musical Events, 22 (May 1967), 10–11 (A. Hoddinott); The Times, 20 June 1967, 6 (Anon.); The Times, 2 September 1979, 17 (Anon.) SONATA FOR CLARINET AND PIANO (Opus 50) In three movements (1) Cadenza (Allegro brioso) (2) Aria (Adagio) (3) Moto Perpetuo (Presto) Duration: 11’

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First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 14 December 1967 Keith Puddy (clarinet) and John Streets (piano) (A Park Lane Group concert) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1968 Manuscript: dated April 1967 Recording: Pye Golden Guinea GSGC/GSGL 14107 Bibliography: The Clarinet, 12 (Winter 1985), 14–17 (E.L. Willey); Musical Times, 109 (February 1968), 156 (R. Crichton); The Times, 15 December 1967, 7 (Anon.) SUITE FOR HARP (Opus 52) In three movements (1) Capriccio (Allegro non troppo) (2) Sarabanda (Adagietto) (3) Giga (Brioso) Commissioned by: The 1967 Dynevor Festival Dedication: “To Marisa Robles” Duration: 6’–7’ First performance: Dynevor, The Castle, 7 July 1967 Marisa Robles (harp) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1968 Manuscript: the composer TWO WELSH FOLK SONGS Arranged for male chorus (TTBB) (1) Lisa Lân [Fair Lisa] (2) Dadl Dau [The Lazy Wife] Commissioned by: The Royal National Eisteddfod, Cardigan, May 1967 First performance: unable to trace Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown 1968 AN APPLE TREE AND A PIG (Opus 55) Scena for unaccompanied mixed chorus (SATB) Text by Emyr Humphreys

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Dedication: “For Roy Bohana” Duration: 10’–11’ First performance: London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 17 March 1968 The Cardiff Polyphonic Choir, conducted by Roy Bohana Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1969 Manuscript: dated February 1968 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 16 (June 1968), 43 (G. Crankshaw); Musical Times, 109 (May 1968), 448 (D. McVeagh); The Times, 18 March 1968, 6 (D. McVeagh) BARTI DDU [Black Bart] (Opus 59) Ballad for mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra Text: I. D. Hooson (from Cerddi a Baledi) with English adaptation by Rhiannon Hoddinott Commissioned by: The Caernavonshire Education Authority on the occasion of the Investiture of the Prince of Wales 2+1.2.2.2/3.3.3.0/ timpani/percussion(3)/2 harps/piano/strings Dedication: “To Haydn Wyn Davies” Duration: 18’–19’ First performance: Caernarfon, The Castle, 24 July 1969 County Youth Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Haydn Davies Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1969 Manuscript: dated September 1968 DIVERTIMENTO FOR EIGHT INSTRUMENTS (Opus 58) In five movements (1) Scherzo 1 (Allegro e leggiero) (2) Canzonetta (Andante semplice) (3) Scherzo 2 (Allegro alia marcia) (4) Barcaruola (Andante) (5) Scherzo 3 (Presto) Commissioned by: The 1968 Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music 1.0.1.1/I.0.0.0/1.1.1.1 Dedication: “To George Wilkinson” Duration: 16’ First performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 11 July 1968 The Virtuoso Ensemble

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First London performance: Queen Elizabeth Hall, 18 May 1969 The Czech Nonet Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1968 Manuscript: dated July 1968 Bibliography: Musical Opinion, 91 (September 1968), 652–657 (E.M. Webster); Musical Times, 109 (September 1968), 831 (G. Larner); The Times, 12 July 1968, 7 (J. Chissell); The Times, 19 May 1969, 11 (Anon.) FIORITURE (Opus 60) For orchestra In twenty sections Allegro; Moderato; Adagio; Allegro; Presto (strings only); Presto; Presto; Presto (strings only); Andante; Andante; Andante; Adagio (strings only); Andante; Andante; Andante; Andante; Presto (strings and percussion); Presto; Presto; Maestoso Commissioned by: The BBC 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.0/timpani/percussion (3)/harp/strings Dedication: “To Michael Tippett” Duration: 20’ First performance: Aberdeen, University Music Hall, 24 November 1968 The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Loughran First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 3 March 1970 The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Loughran Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1970 Manuscript: dated October 1968 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 17 (December 1968), 44 (E. Mason); Musical Times, 110 (January 1969), 65 (P.J. Pirie); The Times, 25 November 1968, 11 (W. Mann) NOCTURNES AND CADENZAS (Opus 53) For clarinet, violin and cello Cadenza – cello (Maestoso) Nocturne – clarinet, violin and cello (Adagio) Cadenza – violin (Agitato, veloce)

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Nocturne – clarinet, violin and cello (Presto non assai e sotto voce) Cadenza – clarinet (Andante e mesto) Coda – clarinet, violin and cello (Adagio) Commissioned by: The Music Society, Newport College of Art Dedication: “For the Gabrieli Ensemble” Duration: 8’ First performance: Newport, College Hall (Clarence Place), 8 February 1968. The Gabrieli Ensemble Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1969 Manuscript: dated January 1968 ROMAN DREAM (Opus 54) Scena for soprano and instrumental ensemble (piano, percussion and harp) Text by Emyr Humphreys Commissioned by: Josephine Nendick and the Paris Chamber Ensemble piano, celesta, claves, percussion(3) and harp Dedication: “For Josephine Nendick and the Paris Chamber Ensemble” Duration: 10’–11’ First performance: Paris, Centre de Musique (261 Boulevard Raspall), 16 February 1968 Josephine Nendick (mezzo soprano) and the Paris Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Keith Humble First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 29 March 1968 Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1969 Manuscript: dated January 1968 Recording: Argo ZRG 691 SINFONIETTA No. l FOR ORCHESTRA (Opus 56) In two movements (1) Rapsodia (Allegro moderato) (2) Scherzi (Presto-Allegro alla marcia-Adagio-Prestissimo-poco a poco crescendo al fine) 2+1.2.2.2/2.2.2.0/timpani/percussion (1 or 2)/strings Duration: 12’ First performance: Cardiff, New Theatre, 29 April 1968 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Kempe Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1969

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Manuscript: the composer Recording: Argo ZRG 824 Bibliography: Musical Times, 109 (June 1968), 559–560 (M. Boyd); The South Wales Echo, 30 April 1968, 8 (A.J. Sicluna); The Times, 30 April 1968, 8 (K. Loveland) SONATA No. 5 FOR PIANO (Opus 57) In four movements Cadenza (Allegro) Aria 1 (Adagio) Aria 2 (Andante) Toccata (Presto) Commissioned by: The Welsh National Council of the United Nations Association in celebration of Human Rights Year 1968 Dedication: “To Gavin Miller” Duration: 14’–15’ First performance: Cardiff, City Hall, 27 April 1968 John Ogdon (piano) First London performance: Wigmore Hall, 14 December 1968. Christian Elton (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1969 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: Sleeve notes for the Nimbus recording (NI 5369) (G. Lewis); Music and Musicians, 16 (July 1968), 68 (K. Loveland); Musical Times, 109 (June 1968), 559–560 (M. Boyd); The Times, 16 December 1968, 6 (J. Chissell) SYMPHONY No. 3 (Opus 61) For orchestra In two movements (1) Adagio-Presto (2) Allegro-Adagio Commissioned by: The Hallé Concerts Society 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.0/timpani/percussion(3)/piano/celesta/harp/strings Duration: 21’ First performance: Manchester, the Free Trade Hall, 5 December 1968 The Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Maurice Handford

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Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1971 Manuscript: the composer Recordings: Decca SXL 6570 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 17 (February 1969), 50 (M. Dixon); Musical Times, 110 (May 1969), 511–512 (M. Boyd); The Times, 6 December 1968, 17 (K. Loveland) OTHER VERSION Part of this score was used in the film The Secret World of Odilon Redilon(1973) 1969 CONCERTO FOR HORN AND ORCHESTRA (Opus 65) In three movements Romanza (Andante) Scherzo (Presto) Cadenza (Allegro) – Adagio Commissioned by: The 1969 Llandaff Music Festival 2+1.2.2.2/3.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 14’ First performance: Llandaff, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 3 June 1969 Ifor James (horn) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Edouard Van Remoortel Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1972 Manuscript: There are two manuscripts: (1) the original version, and (2) the revised version with amendments on the final pages. Both are dated May 1969 Recording: Decca SXL 6606 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 17 (August 1969), 39+62 (K. Loveland); Musical Times, 110 (August 1969), 859 (M. Boyd); The Times, 5 June 1969, 9 (K. Loveland) DIVERTIMENTO FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA (Opus 69) In three movements

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(1) Amabile (2) Calmo (3) Capriccioso Commissioned by: The Cardiff Polyphonic Choir Duration: 12’–13’ First performance: Llandaff, Cathedral Church of St.Peter and St. Paul, 15 November 1969 The London Mozart Players, conducted by Roy Bohana First London performance: Queen Elizabeth Hall, 22 November 1969 The London Mozart Players, conducted by Roy Bohana Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1969 Manuscript: dated November 1969 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 18 (February 1970), 55–56 (G. Crankshaw); Musical Times, 111 (February 1970), 188 (M. Boyd); The Times, 24 November 1969, 17 (C.G.) ‘ERYRI’ [Snowdonia] Song for solo baritone, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra Text: Thomas Parry-Williams Commissioned by: The Duke of Norfolk for the Investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1969 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/harp/strings Duration: 11’ First performance: Caernarfon, The Castle, 1 July 1969 Geraint Evans (baritone), the Investiture Choir and the augmented BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Roy Bohana Manuscript: Records of the Royal Choral Society (now deposited in the London Metropolitan Archives) reveal that in a copy of the original score, solo parts were written for 16 voices (with chorus and orchestra) and were later changed to one soloist Withdrawn Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 18 (September 1969), 56 (K. Loveland); Musical Times, 109 (August 1968), 749 (Anon.); The Times, 1 July 1969, 1 and 2 (Anon.) Notes: This work was part of the programme of music that was used while the processions within the Castle were taking place

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FOUR WELSH DANCES [Set 2] (Opus 64) For orchestra (1) Maestoso – moderato (2) Presto (3) Lento non troppo (4) Allegro con brio Commissioned by: The National Youth Orchestra of Wales 2+1.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 10’ First performance: Merthyr Tydfil, College of Education Concert Hall, 16 April 1969 The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Arthur Davison First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 27 July 1969 The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Arthur Davison Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1971 Manuscript: dated April 1969 Recordings: BBC records REC 222; MFP 2129 Bibliography: The Merthyr Tydfil Express, 1 May 1969, 10 (J. Bow) INVESTITURE DANCES (Opus 66) For orchestra (1) Allegro (2) Andante (3) Presto Commissioned by: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (in celebration of the Investiture of the Prince of Wales) 3+1.2.2.2+l/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 8’–9’ First performance: London, Royal Albert Hall, 22 June 1969 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1971 Manuscript: dated June 1969 Recording: BBC Records REC 222 Bibliography: The Times, 23 June 1969, 11 (Anon.) NOCTURNES AND CADENZAS (Opus 62) For cello and orchestra

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Lento (orchestra) Lento (solo cello) Moderato (solo cello) Adagio (orchestra) Commissioned by: The BBC 2+1.2.2+1.2/3.2.2.0/timpani/percussion(3)/piano/celesta/harp/strings Dedication: “To Raphael Sommer with admiration” Duration: 23’ First performance: Cardiff, BBC Studios, 27 February 1969 Raphael Sommer (cello) and the BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Norman del Mar First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 8 July 1969 First concert performance: Cardiff, 9 January 1971 Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1972 Manuscript: dated February 1969 Recordings: Unicorn RHD 401 Bibliography: Musical Times, 110 (June 1969), 659 (M. Boyd); The Strad, 86 (April 1976), 877–887 (S.S. Dale) NOCTURNES AND CADENZAS (Opus 68 No. 1) For harp Nocturne (Andante) Cadenza (Allegro) Nocturne (Adagio) Cadenza (Presto) Nocturne (Andante) Dedication: “for Osian Ellis” Duration: 13’ First performance: London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 28 September 1969 Osian Ellis (harp) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1969 Manuscript: dated September 1969 Bibliography: The Times, 29 September 1969, 9 (S. Walsh) DERIVED PUBLICATION Sonata Notturna (Opus 68b) (1990) For harp

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Recast for an album of 20th century major works for solo harp, intended for Gillian Tingay to play First performance: London, Purcell Room, 17 February 1994 Elinor Benet (harp) Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: whereabouts unknown SINFONIETTA No. 2 FOR ORCHESTRA (Opus 67) In five movements Maestoso Allegro Allegretto – quasi andante Adagio Presto Commissioned by: The 1969 Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain 3.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 10’–11’ First performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 4 July 1969 The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Schwarz Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1971 Manuscript: dated June 1969 Recordings: RCA Red Seal RK 25082/RL 25082 Bibliography: Musical Opinion, 92 (September 1969), 628–633 (E.M. Webster); Musical Times, 110 (September 1969), 957 (R. Henderson); The Times, 5 July 1969, 19 (Anon.) SONATA No. 1 FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (Opus 63) In eleven sections Presto ritornello 1; Presto scherzo; Adagio ritornello 2; Presto ritornello 1; Allegro alla marcia; Adagio ritornello 2; Allegro quasi cadenza ritornello 1; Adagio romanza; Adagio ritornello 2; Presto ritornello 1; Maestoso (coda) Duration: 15’–16’ First performance: Cardiff, Reardon Smith Theatre, 8 March 1969 Ruggiero Ricci (violin) and Ernest Lush (piano) First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 20 October 1969

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Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1970 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recording: Argo ZRG 770 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 17 (May 1969), 25 (K. Loveland) SYMPHONY No. 4 (Opus 70) For orchestra In two movements (1) Adagio (2) Presto–Allegro-Maestoso Commissioned by: The Hallé Concerts Society 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.0/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: “To Cecil Bevan” Duration: 23’ First performance: Manchester, the Free Trade Hall, 14 December 1969 The Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Maurice Handford First London performance: Royal Festival Hall, 25 January 1970 The Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Maurice Handford Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1971 Manuscript: dated November 1969 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 18 (February 1970), 48 (K. Loveland); Music and Musicians, 18 (March 1970), 59 (G. Crankshaw); Musical Opinion, 93 (March 1970), 296– 297 (D. Simmons); Musical Times, 111 (May 1970), 524–525 (M. Kennedy); The Strad, 80 (March 1970), 525–529 (T.D.S.); The Times, 5 December 1969, 7 (K. Loveland); The Times, 24 January 1970, 3 (W. Mann) 1970 FANTASY (Opus 68 No. 2) For harp Andante; Allegro; Moderato; Allegro; Maestoso (Andante) Duration: 8’ First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 14 May 1970 Elinor Benet (harp)

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Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1972 Manuscript: dated May 1970 OUT OF THE DEEP (Opus 74) Motet for unaccompanied mixed chorus (SATB) Text: arranged by W. Moelwyn Merchant Dedication: “For Richard Lloyd” Duration: 12’ First performance: Cardiff, New Hall (Corbett Road), 9 March 1971 The Cardiff Polyphonic Choir, conducted by Roy Bohana Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1972 Manuscript: dated June 1970 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 19 (June 1971), 71–72 (K. Loveland) SARUM FANFARE (Opus 37 No. 3) For organ Commissioned by: Oxford University Press Duration: 3’ First performance: Salisbury, Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 2 May 1970 Michael Smith (organ) (A service held in commemoration of the 750th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the Cathedral church on the Feast of St. Vitalis, 28 April 1220) First London performance: unable to trace any venue, 20 October 1984 Publication: Oxford University Press. Score (in Modern Organ Music, Book 3) © 1974 Manuscript: dated April 1970 SINFONIETTA No. 3 FOR ORCHESTRA (Opus 71) In two movements Moderato Adagio Commissioned by: The 1970 Cardiff Festival of 20th Century Music 3.1.2.2.2+1/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 11’–12’ First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 10 March 1970

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The New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Edward Downes (A Welsh Arts Council Concert) First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 28 September 1971 BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Norman del Mar Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1972 Manuscript: dated February 1970 Recordings: Decca SXL 6570 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 18 (June 1970), 32–33 (K. Loveland); Musical Times, 111 (May 1970), 528 (M. Boyd); The Times, 20 March 1970, 10 (Anon.) SONATA FOR CELLO AND PIANO (Opus 73 No.2) In two movements (1) Andante (2) Allegro molto Dedication: “For George Isaacs and Eric Harrison” Duration: 13’30” First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 15 May 1970 George Isaacs (cello) and Eric Harrison (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1970 Manuscript: dated 1970 Recordings: Argo ZRG 695 SONATA No. 2 FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (Opus 73 No.1) In three movements (1) Cadenza (Allegro e brillante) (2) Moto perpetuo (Presto e leggiero) (3) Episodi e coda (Adagio e espressivo) Commissioned by: The Midland Arts Association for the Ranger-Kellaway Duo Duration: 14’ First performance: Birmingham, University of Aston, 9 May 1970 Brigid Ranger (violin) and Rena Kellaway (piano) First London performance: Purcell Room, 21 May 1970 Brigid Ranger (violin) and Rena Kellaway (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1972 Manuscript: dated ‘Asolo – March 1970’

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SUITE No. 1 (Opus 72 No.1) For orchestra In five movements (1) Overture (Allegro) (2) Barcarolle (Andante) (3) Scherzo (Presto) (4) Nocturne (Adagio) (5) March (Allegro) Commissioned by: The Southampton Education Committee 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(3)/strings Duration: 10’ First performance: Southampton, Central Hall, 16 April 1970 The Southampton Youth Orchestra, conducted by Peter Davies Publication: Oxford University Press. Manuscript: dated March 1970 ‘THE SUN, THE GREAT LUMINARY OF THE UNIVERSE’ (Opus 76) Music for orchestra Commissioned by: The 1970 Swansea Festival in memory of Leonard Pinn (the Festival’s first director) 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.2+1.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: Duration: 12’ First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 8 October 1970 The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vernon Handley First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 12 December 1978 BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Boris Brott First performance at a Promenade concert: London, Royal Albert Hall, 28 July 1986 The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1972 Manuscript: dated September 1970 Recordings: Decca SXL 6570 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 19 (December 1970), 72 (K. Loveland); Musical Times, 112 (January 1971), 61 (M. Boyd); The Times, 13 October 1970, 13 (Anon.)

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OTHER VERSIONS Part of this score was used in the film The Secret World of Odilon Redilon (1973) Dawns and Dusks Ballet with choreography by John Butler First performance: Canada (1979) First European performance: Rome, Opera House, 2 January 1991 L’Orchestra del Teatro Dell’Opera conducted by Alberto Ventura TRIO (Opus 77) For violin, cello and piano In two sections (1) Andante (2) Allegro-andante Commissioned by: The Incorporated Society of Musicians (for their annual conference) Duration: 12’ First performance: Cardiff, Reardon Suite Theatre, 31 December 1970 James Barton (violin), George Isaacs (cello) and Roger Green (piano) First London performance: Purcell Room, 14 May 1971 James Barton (violin) George Issacs (cello) and Valerie Tryon (piano) Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Score © 1984 Manuscript: the composer Recording: Argo ZRG 691 Bibliography: Musical Times, 112 (January 1971), 162 (M. Boyd) 1971 CONCERTINO (Opus 72 No.2) For horn, trumpet and orchestra In three movements (1) Allegro (2) Poco Lento (3) Allegro Scherzando

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Commissioned by: The Anglesey Education Committee for the 21st Anniversary Concert of the North Wales Youth Orchestra 2.2.2.2/2.2.3.0/timpani/percussion/harp/strings Duration: 9’ First performance: Llangefni, County Secondary School Hall,

7 April 1971 Richard Thomas (horn), Gwyn Williams (trumpet) and the North Wales Youth Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott (A North Wales Youth Orchestra 21st Anniversary Concert) Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1971 Manuscript: dated March 1971 Notes: The programme for this concert reveals that the movements were originally Intrada, Ciacona and Scherzo FOUR WELSH SONGS Arranged for male chorus (TTBB) and piano (or orchestra) Text: traditional with English versions by Rhiannon Hoddinott (1) Croen y Ddafad Felen [The Yellow Sheepskin] (Con brio) (2) Breuddwyd y Bardd [The Poet’s Dream] (Adagio) (3) Lisa Lân [Fair Lisa] (Andante) (4) Dadl Dau [The Lazy Wife] (Allegro) 2+1.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion/harp/strings Dedication: “For Glynne Jones and the Pendyrus Choir” Duration: 10’ First performance: HTV (Wales), 27 September 1971 First public performance: San Francisco, Masonic Auditorium, 8 October 1971 The Pendyrus Male Voice Choir, conducted by Glynne Jones Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1975 OTHER VERSION Two Welsh Folk Songs Arranged for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano or harp Text: traditional with English versions by Rhiannon Hoddinnott Lisa Lân (Andante) Dadl Dau (Allegretto)

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Duration: 4’23” First performance: Llanddewibrefi, St. David’s Church, 17 May 1975 Choir of University College Cardiff, conducted by Clifford Bunford Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1976 Recordings: Lisa Lân: SAIN 12095 D PUER NATUS [A Child is Born] Carol for double mixed chorus (SSAATTBB) and organ Text: 16th century German words translated by W. Moelwyn Merchant Commissioned by: The Cardiff Polyphonic Choir in association with the Welsh Arts Council Duration: 3’ First performance: Cardiff, New Hall, 16 December 1971 The Cardiff Polyphonic Choir, conducted by Roy Bohana Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1972 (Anthems for Choirs 4) and available separately (X229) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recordings: OUP 150; CPT 996: BM 106; VPS 1071 ST. PAUL AT MALTA (Opus 80) Cantata for tenor soloist, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra Text: Paul Merchant Commissioned by: The 1971 Stroud Festival for its Silver Jubilee Celebrations in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain 0.1.2.1/4.3.3.I/timpani/percussion(3)/strings Duration: c.40’ First performance: Stroud, Subscription Rooms, 14 October 1971 Kenneth Bowen (tenor), the Festival Choir and the Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Lawrence Hudson Publication: Oxford University Press Manuscript: dated September 1971 SINFONIETTA No. 4 FOR ORCHESTRA (Opus 72 No.3) In four movements (1) Maestoso-Allegro-Maestoso (2) Andante-Lento

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(3) Allegro (4) Maestoso-Presto Commissioned by: The Welsh Joint Education Committee for the National Youth Orchestra of Wales Dedication: “To Arthur Davison” Duration: 10’ First performance: Rhos, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavillion, 30 Ju1y 1971 The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Arthur Davison Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1972 Manuscript: dated July 1971 Bibliography: Musical Times, 112 (October 1971), 987–988 (A. Luff); The Times, 9 August 1971, 7 (K. Loveland) SONATA FOR HORN AND PIANO (Opus 78 No. 2) In three movements (1) Moderato, quasi Allegretto (2) Adagio (3) Presto Commissioned by: The 1971 Vale of Glamorgan Festival, in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “To Barry Tuckwell” Dedication: 11’ First performance: St. Donat’s Castle, the Bradenstoke Hall, 28 August 1971 Barry Tuckwell (horn) and Margaret Kitchin (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1972 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Times, 112 (November 1971), 1094 (M. Boyd); Musical Times, 114 (November 1973), 1156 (T. Messenger) SONATA No. 3 FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (Opus 78 No.1) In three movements (1) Moderato (2) Presto (3) Adagio

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Commissioned by: BBC Wales Duration: 14’ First performance: Llandaff, Broadcasting House, 2 March 1971 Eric Gruenberg (violin) and Balint Vaszonyi (piano) (Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 23 April 1971) First USA performance: New York, Merkin Concert Hall (Abraham Goodman House), 4 January 1986 Charles Libove (violin) and Nina Lugovoy (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1973 Manuscript: the composer Recording: Argo ZRG 761 THE TREE OF LIFE (Opus 79) Oratorio for soprano and tenor soloists, mixed chorus (SATB), organ and orchestra Text: W. Moelwyn Merchant Prologue (Lento) Part 1 The Tree of Life (Andante) Part 2 The Tree of Seth (Andante) Part 3 Solomon’s Temple (Allegro) Part 4 The Pool of Siloam (Adagio) Part 5 The Crucifixion (Adagio) Part 6 The New Jerusalem (Maestoso) Commissioned by: The 1971 Three Choirs Festival, with funding made available by the Taynton Trust 2+1.2.2.2+1/4.3.2+1.0/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/organ/strings Duration: 50’–55’ First performance: Gloucester, the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, 25 August 1971 Margaret Price (soprano), Gerald English (tenor), the Festival Chorus, Martin Neary (organ) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Sanders First London performance: Queen Elizabeth Hall, 27 February 1982 Janet Price ( soprano) , David Johnston (tenor), the City of London Choir, Martin Neary (organ) and the London Bach Orchestra, conducted by Donald Cashmore Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1972 Manuscript: the composer

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Bibliography: The Citizen, 26 August 1971, 8 (R.G.); Music and Musicians, 20 (December 1971), 73–74 (M. Dawney); Musical Opinion, 95 (October 1971), 21–25 (K. Dommett); Musical Times, 112 (October 1971), 985–986 (K. Loveland); The Times, 31 August 1971, 9 (K. Loveland); Welsh Music, III (Autumn 1971), 51–52 (M. Dawney) 1972 AUBADE (Opus 72 No. 4) For small orchestra Composed for the 25th anniversary of the Cheltenham’s Young People’s Orchestra 2.1.2.1/2.1.2.0/timpani/percussion(2)/strings Duration: 8’ First performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 31 August 1972 Cheltenham Young People’s Orchestra, conducted by Michael Burbridge Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1972 Manuscript: dated June 1972 ‘THE HAWK IS SET FREE’ (Opus 72 No.5) For orchestra Commissioned by: The 1972 North Monmouthshire Festival 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: c. 7’ First performance: Abergavenny, St. Mary’s Priory Church, 21 September 1972 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Jorg Faerben First broadcast performance: BBC Wales Radio 4, 8 October 1972 The BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Yuval Zaliouk Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: dated September 1972, and the place given as ‘Les Avants-Segromio Monte’ Notes: The piece was inspired by a painting ‘the hawk is set free’ by John Wright IEUENCTID Y DYDD [Youth of the Day] For mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra (or organ) Text: Thomas H. Parry-Williams

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Commissioned: as a tribute to Urdd Gobaith Cymru (the Welsh League of Youth), on the occasion of its 50th anniversary 2+1.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Duration: c. 16’ First performance: Llandaff, the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St Paul, 5 June 1972 The Cardiff Aelwyd Choir and the BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by David Lloyd Jones Publication: Oxford University Press. Manuscript: dated ‘Mai l972’ QUINTET (Opus 78 No. 4) For two violins, viola, cello and piano Commissioned by: Lancaster University Concerts Duration: 15’ First performance: Lancaster, the University’s Great Hall, 2 March 1972 The Sartori String Quartet with David Wilde (piano) First London performance: Purcell Room, 21 June 1973 The Cardiff Festival Players with Howard Shelley (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1973 Manuscript: dated February 1972 Bibliography: Musical Events, 28 (September 1973), 26 (Anon.); Musical Times, 114 (August 1973), 813–814 (P. Griffiths) SONATA No. 6 FOR PIANO (Opus 78 No.3) Adagio maestoso Allegro bruscamente Andante mesto Dedication: “In memory of Alan Rawsthorne” Duration: 10’ First performance: London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 10 October 1972 Martin Jones (piano) First public performance: London, Purcell Room, 10 March 1973 Janice Williams (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1974 Manuscript: the composer Recordings: Argo ZRG 761; Phoenix DGS 1013

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1973 ANCESTOR WORSHIP (Opus 82) Four songs for baritone and piano Text: Emyr Humphreys (1) Ancestor Worship (Andante) [5’14”] (2) Marro’s Only Son (Allegro molto) [1’43”] (3) From Father to Son (Adagio) [3’45”] (4) Master Plan (Moderato) [3’03”] Commissioned by: The 1977 Vale of Glamorgan Festival First performance: St. Donat’s Castle, Tythe Barn, 19 August 1977 Stephen Roberts (baritone) and Stephen Ralls (piano) First London performance: Wigmore Hall, 16 June 1982 Stephen Roberts (baritone) and Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1979 Manuscript: dated July 1977 THE BEACH OF FALESA (Opus 83) Opera in three acts, with libretto by Glyn Jones, based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Act one: Scene 1 Deck of a schooner in the South Seas (Moderato) Scene 2 Interior of Randall’s house (Moderato) Act two: Scene 1 Interior of Wiltshire’s store (Allegretto e pesante) Scene 2 The veranda of Randall’s store and the beach (Presto) Scene 3 Outside the chief’s hut and the beach (Moderato) Act three: Scene 1 Interior of Wiltshire’s store (Allegro) Scene 2 In the forest (Adagio) Commissioned by: The Welsh National Opera Company with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council 2+1.2.2+1.2/4.2.3.1/timpani/percussion(4)/harp/strings Duration: Act 1: 42’; Act 2: 40’; Act 3: 40’

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First performance: The opera was recorded by Welsh National Opera in Cardiff on 21 March 1974, and subsequently televised on the Welsh ITV network on 30 March with the same performers (see below) First public performance: Cardiff, New Theatre, 26 March 1974 Cast: Schooner Captain (tenor) Terence Walters Wiltshire: a new trader (baritone) Delme Bryne-Jones Apia: a member of the ship’s crew (silent) Ieuan Davies Case: the resident trader (baritone) Geraint Evans Black Jack: Case’s henchman (bass) Forbes Robinson Randall: a drunken trader (tenor) Rowland Jones Uma: a half-caste (mezzo-soprano) Sandra Browne Fa’avao: Uma’s mother (contralto) Peggy Troman Father Galuchet: a Catholic Priest (tenor) Edward Byles Maea: a young chief (tenor) Mark Hamilton Chorus of chiefs, villagers, and so on. The Welsh National Opera Chorus (chorus master: Anthony Hose) and the Welsh Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Richard Armstrong Designer: Alexander McPherson Lighting: Robert Bryan Producer: Michael Geliot Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1974 and Libretto © 1974 Manuscript: dated February 1974, at the end of Act 3 Bibliography: R. Fawkes. Welsh National Opera (London, MacRae Books, 1986); The Financial Times, 29 March 1974, 3 (R. Crichton); The Guardian, 2 March 1974, 22 (E. Greenfield); The Listener, 91 (14 March 1974), 344–345 (S. Walsh); Melos, no. 4 (1974), 232–238 (B. Schiffer); Music and Musicians, 22 (March 1974), 20–21 (C. Powell); Musical Times, 115 (March 1974), 207–209 (M. Boyd); Musical Times, 115 (May 1974), 412 (B. Northcott); Opera, 25 (May 1974), 386–388 (A. Jacobs); Opera News, 38 (June 1974), 34 (J. Stedman, etc.); The South Wales Evening Post, 27 March 1974, 5 (F. Gold); The Texas Arts Journal, 1977, 77–82 (G. Jones); The Times, 28 March 1974, 11 (W. Mann); Welsh Music, IV (Spring 1974), 8–19 (A.J. Heward Rees); The Western Mail, 25 March 1974, 4 (P. Davies); The Western Mail, 27 March 1974, 5 (E. Williams); Y Faner, 14 December 1979, 19 (G. Glyn)

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‘THE FLOORE OF HEAV’N’ (Opus 72 No. 6) For orchestra Commissioned by: Sam Wanamaker 2+1.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 5’ First performance: London, Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St. Saviour and St. Mary Overie, Southwark, 30 April 1973 The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Elgar Howarth Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1973 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Times, 27 April 1973, 9 (Anon.) Notes: The reference to ‘the floore of heav’n’ comes from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene 1 THE SECRET WORLD OF ODILON REDILON Music for the documentary film Production company: Kevala Films, for the Arts Council of Great Britain Script: Stephen Cross who also produced and edited the film Music used as follows: The Sun the Great Luminary of the Universe (Opus 76) [9’10”] Symphony No. 3 (Opus 61) [9’05”] Variants for Orchestra (Opus 47) [8’03”] Symphony No. 2 (Opus 29) [1’00”] Duration (of film): 30’ Release date: London, Colour Film Services (Baker Street), 18 October 1973 Bibliography: Monthly Film Bulletin, 40 (December 1973), 257 THE SILVER SWIMMER (Opus 84) Song for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano duet Text: John Manchip White Commissioned by: The University of Texas at Austin Dedication: “For Morris J. Beachy” Duration: 6’30”

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First performance: University of Texas at Austin (USA), Music Building, 10 July 1973 The University Choir with Paula Stephens and Jerry Stephens (piano duet), conducted by M.J. Beachy Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1975 Manuscript: dated June 1973 SYMPHONY No. 5 (Opus 81) For orchestra In two movements Allegro Adagio-Allegretto-Andante-Allegro-Adagio-Presto Commissioned by: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.2+1.1/timpani/percussion(4)/harp/strings Dedication: “To Moelwyn Merchant with great affection and admiration” Duration: 25’ First performance: London, Royal Festival Hall, 6 March 1973 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Davis Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile Score © 1975 Manuscript: dated February 1973 Recordings: Decca SXL 6606 Bibliography: Musical Times, 114 (May 1973), 511 (M. Harrison); Musical Times, 114 (May 1973), 517–518 (M. Boyd); The Sunday Times, 11 March 1973, 29 (F. Aprahamian); The Times, 7 March 1973, 11 (M. Harrison); The Times, 19 March 1973, 10 (K. Loveland) 1974 RITORNELLI (Opus 85) For solo trombone, wind instruments and percussion Commissioned by: The London Sinfonietta, with the aid of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 1+1.1.1+1.1/1.1.0.0/percussion Duration: 11’ First performance: London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3 May 1974 Denis Wick (trombone) and the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Elgar Howarth

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Publication: Oxford University Press. Trombone and piano score © 1977 Manuscript: dated April 1974 Recordings: Gunmar GM 2009 Bibliography: Melos, 41, no. 5 (1974), 314–316 (B. Schiffer); Music and Musicians, 22 (August 1974), 49–50 (M. Chanan); New Yorker, 51 (2 February 1976), 75–78 (A. Porter) 1975 FIVE LANDSCAPES [Ynys Mon] (Opus 87) Song cycle for high voice and piano Text by Emrys Humphreys (1) Mynydd Bodafon (Andante) (2) Din Lligwy (Allegro) (3) Llys Dulas (Vivace) (4) Traeth Bychan (Adagio) (5) Hen Gapel (Allegro) Dedication: “For Stuart Burrows” Duration: 15’–16’ First performance: Cardiff, Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre, 27 May 1975 Stuart Burrows (tenor) and John Samuel (piano) First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 4, 11 April 1976 Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1976 Manuscript: dated March 1975 Bibliography: Musical Times, 119 (December 1978), 1067 and 1069 (A.J. Heward Rees) LANDSCAPES (Opus 86) Three pieces for orchestra, inspired by a poem (Snowdonia) by T.H. ParryWilliams (1887–1975) (1) Allegro (2) Adagio (3) Andante-allegro Commissioned by: The 1975 Royal National Eisteddfod 2+1.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 20’

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First performance: Criccieth, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavillion, 8 August 1975 The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vernon Handley REVISED VERSION (1976) 3+1.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings First performance: Cardiff, New Hall (Corbett Road), 9 March 1976 The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Boris Brott First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 4 August 1976 The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Boris Brott Publication: Oxford University Press. Full score © 1979 Manuscript: dated ‘July 1975, revised February 1976’ Recordings: RCA Red Seal RK 25082/RL 25082 Bibliography: Musical Times, 117 (June 1976), 510–511 (M. Boyd); The Times, 19 March 1976, 12 (Anon.) THE MAGICIAN (Opus 88) Opera in one act, with libretto by John Morgan Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7

Stage of a theatre (Allegro) Sesto’s dressing room (Allegretto) Adriana’s dressing room (Allegro non troppo) Sesto’s dressing room (Andante non troppo) Adriana’s dressing room (Allegro) Sesto’s dressing room (Moderato) Stage of a theatre (Allegro)

Commissioned by: HTV in association with the Welsh Arts Council 1+1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/timpani/percussion(3)/piano/strings Duration: 35’ First performance: Cardiff, HTV Studios, 11 February 1976 Televised as Murder, the Magician Cast: Sesto, the magician (baritone) Adriana, his wife (soprano) Angelo, his assistant (tenor)

Geraint Evans Elizabeth Gale Ian Caley

The Welsh Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Eric Wetherall First performance of stage version: Cardiff, Sherman Theatre, 28 April 1976

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Cast: Sesto, the magician Adriana, his wife Angelo, his assistant

Kelvin Thomas Linda Coombes Maldwyn Davies

University College (Cardiff) Opera Orchestra, conducted by Clifford Bunford (A University College (Cardiff) Opera Workshop production) Designer: Douglas James Associate Producer: Geraint Evans Producer: Terry DeLacey Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1978 Manuscript: dated February 1975 Bibliography: The Daily Mail, 11 February 1976, 25 (Anon.); The Daily Telegraph, 12 February 1976, 4 (S. Clayton); Music and Musicians, 24 (July 1976), 40 (D. Fingleton); Opera, 27 (April 1976), 389–390 (A. Jacobs); The South Wales Argus, 18 February 1976, 11 (K. Loveland); The South Wales Echo, 4 February 1976, 5 (A.J. Sicluna); The Sun, 11 February 1976, 11 (Anon.); The Sunday Times Magazine, 8 February 1976, 44–45 (J. Morgan); The Times, 22 January 1976, 10 (Anon.); The Times, 11 February 1976, 10 (A. Blyth) WELSH AIRS AND DANCES Arranged for symphonic wind band Allegro; Andante; Allegretto; Andante; Presto Commissioned by: The International Festival of Youth Brass and Symphonic Bands Piccolo, flute, oboe, bassoon, 2 E-flat clarinets, 2 B-flat clarinets, E-flat alto clarinet, B-flat bass clarinet, E-flat alto saxophone, B-flat tenor saxophone, E-flat baritone saxophone, 2 B-flat trumpets, 2 horns in F, 2 trombones, baritone, tuba, string bass, timpani and percussion (2) Duration: 16’ First performance: Cardiff, University Great Hall, 21 August 1975 International Youth Symphonic Wind Band, conducted by Bernard Keefe First London performance: Royal Albert Hall, 24 August 1975 I.Y.S.W.B, conducted by Charles Mackerras Publication: Oxford University Press (New York). Score © 1979

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Manuscript: dated June 1975 Bibliography: Composer, no. 79 (Summer 1983), 1–3 (T. Reynish); The Times, 25 August 1975, 5 (Anon.) OTHER VERSION Arrangement for wind band Publication: Denis Wick Publications © 2003 1976 A CONTEMPLATION UPON FLOWERS (Opus 90) Three songs for soprano and small orchestra Texts: chosen by Myfanwy Piper (1) Life (George Herbert) (Andante) (2) The Flower (George Herbert) (Allegro) (3) A Contemplation upon Flowers (Henry King) (Andante) Commissioned by: The 1976 Fishguard Festival in association with the Welsh Arts Council 2.1.2.1/2.1.0.0/percussion(1)/strings Dedication: “In memory of my father (24.7.1899 – 23.3.1974)” Duration: 16’ First performance: Fishguard, St. David’s Cathedral, 24 July 1976 Felicity Palmer (soprano) and the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conducted by John Davies First London performance: St. John’s, Smith Square, 30 April 1984 Alison Truefitt (soprano) and the Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Julian Bigg Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score (1979) – piano reduction by Timothy Taylor Manuscript: dated June 1976 Recordings: Chandos ABRD 1400; ABTD 1400 (cassette); CHAN 8762 (CD) Bibliography: Musical Times, 117 (October 1976), 846–847 (M. Boyd); The Times, 31 July 1976, 9 (Anon.) SONATA No. 4 FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (Opus 89) In three movements

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(1) Allegro, non troppo e flessible (2) Adagio (3) Presto e leggiero Commissioned by: BBC Wales Dedication: “To Moelfryn Harries” Duration: 18’ First performance: Cardiff, Broadcasting House, 3 March 1976 Pierre Amoyal (violin) and Pascal Rogé (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1978 Manuscript: the composer STEEL BE MY SISTER: The Poetry and Painting of David Jones [d.1975] Music for the television documentary film Production company: Harlech TV Directed and script by Leo Aylen Music written for the following sections: 1A (0’14”); 1B (0’18”); 2 (1’05”); 3 (0’25”); 4A (0’39”); 4B (0’15”); 4C (1’46”); 4D (1’30”); 4E (2’24”); 4F (0’36”); 5A (0’30”); 5B (1’46”); 5C (1’12”); 5D (0’28”); 5E (2’17”); 5F (0’20”); 5G (0’30”); 5H (1’20”); 5I (0’56”); 5J (0’21”); 5K (2’13”); 6 (1’20”+1’16”+0’04”); 7A (0’09”); 7B (0’42”); 7C (0’04”); 7D (1’09”); 7E (1’36”); 7F (0’12”); 7G (0’3.5”); 7H (0’33”); 7I (0’07”); 7J (2’11”); 7K (0’02”); 7L (2’30”); 8 (1’32”) Two percussion, piano and cello Film first shown: ITV Welsh network, 29 February 1976 Unpublished Manuscript: a copy is dated January 1976 TO AUTUMN Song for unaccompanied mixed chorus (SATB) Text: John Keats (1795–1821) Contribution to Gaudeamus, a songbook containing nine settings by contemporary British composers, the others being John Joubert, Robin Holloway, John Gardner, Nicholas Maw, Phyllis Tate, Alan Ridout, Gordon Crosse and William Mathias Commissioned by: The British Committee for Europa Cantat 6, with funds

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provided by East Midlands Arts Association Duration: c. 8’ First performance: Leicester, New Hall (Gateway School), 5 August 1976 The Purcell Concert, conducted by Grayston Burgess Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1976 Manuscript: dated March 1976 1977 FRENCH SUITE (Opus 91) For small orchestra In five movements (1) Overture (Allegro con brio) (2) Basse-danse (Presto) (3) Arietta (Adagio) (4) Badinerie and Musette (Vivace) (5) Passepied (Allegro assai) Commissioned by: The London Mozart Players, with funds made available by the Welsh Arts Council 2.2.2.2/2.2.0.0/timpani/strings Duration: 18’ First performance: Cardiff, New Theatre, 13 March 1977 The London Mozart Players, conducted by Paul Tortelier Publication: Oxford University Press Manuscript: dated January 1977 Bibliography: Musical Times, 118 (May 1977), 413–414 (M. Boyd) ITALIAN SUITE (Opus 92) For treble recorder (or flute) and guitar In four movements (1) Cadenza (Con fuoco) (2) Passamezzo (Moderato) (3) Gondoliera (Andante) (4) Tarantella (Prestissimo) Duration: 16’ First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 4 March 1977 Carl Dolmetsch (recorder) and John Mills (guitar)

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Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1983 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Dolmetsch Bulletin, 28 (September 1977), 6 (D. MacMillan); Musical Times, 118 (May 1977), 411–412 (F. Dobbins); Recorder and Music, 5 (1977), 327 (Anon.) NIGHTPIECE: MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA (Opus 86 No.2) Commissioned by: The Welsh Philharmonic Orchestra in association with the Welsh Arts Council 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 10’ First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 14 February 1978 The Welsh Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Richard Armstrong Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Full score © 1978 Manuscript: dated December 1977 Notes: The piece was inspired by a quote from William Wordsworth (1798): ‘The sky is overcast With a continuous cloud of texture close, Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moor, Which through that veil is indistinctly seen’ PASSAGGIO (Opus 94) For orchestra In twenty sections: allegretto; allegretto; adagio; adagio; allegro molto; mono mosso; allegro molto; allegretto; adagio; adagio; quasi cadenza; presto; presto; prestimssimo; adagio; allegro; allegro; allegro; andante; adagio Commissioned by: The 1977 Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music, with funds made available by the Arts Council 2+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: “To Renna and John Manduell” Duration: 19’ First performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 6 July 1977 The Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Gibson First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 5 June 1978 Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd.

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Manuscript: dated May 1977 Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 25 (August 1977), 14 (D. Richards); The Sunday Times, 10 July 1977, 35 (F. Aprahamian); The Times, 7 July 1977, 14 (Anon.) THE SHINING PYRAMID Incidental music for the television drama by Arthur Machen, adapted by Emyr Humphreys. Produced by Huw Davies Commissioned by: HTV Wales 0.0.1.0/1.0.0.0/percussion(1)/piano/cello Duration: c.40’ First performance: 19 August 1977 on the Welsh ITV network (HTV) Music performed by ad hoc musicians, conducted by Norman Kay Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown SINFONIA FIDEI (Opus 95) Cantata for soprano and tenor soloists, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra (1) A Sequence for St. Michael (Alcuin) (Moderato) (2) Hymn to the Virgin (Anon) (Andante) (3) The Banner of the King Advance (Venantius Fortinatus) (Allegro) Commissioned by: The 1977 Llandaff Festival, in association with the Welsh Arts Council 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: “To Charles Groves” Duration: 22’ First performance: Llandaff, the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 18 June 1977 Alison Pearce (soprano), Kenneth Bowen (tenor), the Dyfed Choir and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves First London performance: Royal Festival Hall, 20 May 1983 Wendy Eathorne (soprano), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), the Bach Choir and the Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Willcocks Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1978 Manuscript: the composer Recordings: Unicorn RHD 401

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Bibliography: Music and Musicians, 25 (August 1977), 14 (D. Richards); Musical Times, 118 (August 1977), 663 (M. Boyd); Musical Times, 124 (July 1983), 438 (G. Norris); The Times, 20 June 1977, 7 (K. Loveland) SONATA No. 2 FOR CELLO (Opus 96 No.1) In three movements (1) Moderato (2) Adagio (3) Allegro Commissioned by: Alan Dalziel and John Constable Duration: 16’ First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 27 November 1977 Alan Dalziel (cello) and John Constable (piano) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1982 Manuscript: dated November 1977 Bibliography: The Daily Telegraph, 28 November 1977, 13 (M.M.) WHAT THE OLD MAN DOES IS ALWAYS RIGHT (Opus 93) A children’s opera in one act, with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5

The old man’s cottage (Allegro) On the road to the fair (Allegro) Outside the inn At the fair The old man’s cottage (Allegro)

Commissioned by: The 1977 Fishguard Festival, with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council 0.0.1.0/1.0.0.0/percussion(2)/violin/cello/piano duet Duration: 54’ First performance: Fishguard, Secondary School Theatre, 27 July 1977 Cast: The Old Man (bass baritone) The Old Woman (soprano) First Traveller (tenor)

Geraint Evans Eiddwen Harrhy Yolande Jones

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Second Traveller (tenor) Landlady (contralto) Shepherdess (soprano) Farmer (baritone) Old couple (baritone, contralto) Chorus of children, dancers and animals

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Claire McBrearty Maldwyn Davies, Philip Hughes and pupils of the Fishguard Secondary School

Martin Ronchetti (clarinet), William Salaman (horn) James Blades and Paul Patrick (percussion), Robin Stowell (violin), Dewi Watkins(cello), Arnold Draper and Stephen Price (piano), conducted by John Davies Set design: John Piper Scenery: David Garratt Repititeur: Arnold Draper Choreography: David Hepburn Costume design: Philip Thomas Production: John Moody, assisted by Euros Lewis Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal Score © 1980 – piano reduction by John Parry. Chorus parts © 1980. Libretto © 1980 Manuscript: dated April 1977 Bibliography: Country Life, 18 August 1977, 431 (K. Loveland); Music and Musicians, 25 (August 1977), 14 (D. Richards); Music and Musicians, 26 (November 1977), 57 (D. Richards); Music Teacher, 56 (July 1977), 15–16 (A. Hoddinott); Musical Times, 118 (October 1977), 484 (M. Boyd); Opera, 28 (Autumn 1977), 48–49 (K. Loveland); Opera, 40 (Annual 1989), 40 (N. Goodwin); The Times, 28 July 1977, 9 (Anon.); Welsh Music 5 (Winter 1977), 77–81 (M. Burtch) DERIVED WORK (1984) Theatre Overture Edited, from the opera, for concert performance by Robert Matthew-Walker 2.2.2.2/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(2)/strings Duration: c. 8’ First performance: London, St. John’s Smith Square, 30 April 1984 The Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Julian Bigg Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd.

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1978 CYMRU [Wales] Song arranged for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Written in memory of T. H. Parry-Williams Text: T.H. Parry-Williams Commissioned by: The 1978 Royal National Eisteddfod Duration: c.6’ First performance: Cardiff, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavilion, 7 August 1978 The Eisteddfod Choir, conducted by Alun Guy Unpublished Manuscript: the composer DULCIA IUVENTUTIS [The Joys of Youth] (Opus 97) Three songs for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano duet Texts selected and translated by Christopher Cory (1) Nunc est Bibendum [Now is the time for drinking] (Allegro, ma non troppo) (2) Novus Amor [New love] (Andante) (3) Tenera Iuventa [Tender youth] (Allegro con brio) Commissioned by: The 1978 Cardiff Festival of Choirs Dedication: “To Mervyn Williams” Duration: 9’ First performance: Cardiff, Assembly Rooms (City Hall), 13 January 1978 Vocal Ensemble of Wales with Arnold Draper and Stephen Price (piano duet), conducted by Richard Elfyn Jones (Cardiff Festival of Choirs) Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1981 Manuscript: dated January 1971 Bibliography: Musical Times, 119 (March 1978), 261 (M. Boyd); The Times, 14 January 1978, 11 (K. Loveland) SONATA FOR ORGAN (Opus 96 No. 2) In three movements (1) Moderato (2) Andante (3) Allegro Molto

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Dedication: “For Huw Tregelles Williams” Duration: 12’ First performance: Cardiff, New Hall (Corbett Road), 6 March 1978 Huw Tregelles Williams (organ) First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 23 August 1978 Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1980 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Times, 119 (May 1978), 438–440 (M. Boyd) SONATINA FOR GUITAR (Opus 98 No. 1) In three movements Allegretto Andante Allegro molto Commissioned by: Oxford Univerity Press Duration: c. 10’ First performance, Guelph (Canada), Music Room-Mackinnon Building (College of Arts), 31 October 1982 Bruce French (guitar) First UK performance: Truro Festival, 10 March 1983 Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1981 edited by Hector Quine Manuscript: dated October 1978 SONATINA FOR TWO PIANOS (Opus 98 No. 2) In two movements Andantino Allegro-Adagio-Presto Duration: 10’ First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 4 October 1978 Anthony Lindsay and Simon Young (pianos) Publication: University College Cardiff Press © 1984 VOYAGERS (Opus 75) Songs for baritone solo, male chorus (TTBB) and orchestra (or piano duet) Text: J. Manchip White

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(1) Sailing at Dawn (Moderato) (2) Winter Sunday at sea (Adagio, ma con moto) (3) American Gals (Allegretto: with each refrain piu allegro) (4) Lament for Welsh Sailors (Adagio) – baritone solo (5) Homeward Run (Allegro) Commissioned by: The Pendyrus Male Choir, with funds made available by the Welsh Arts Council 3.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: “For Glynne [Jones]” Duration: 20’ First performance: Cardiff, Broadcasting House, 26 February 1979 Stephen Roberts (baritone) and the Pendyrus Male Choir with the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bryden Thomson First American performance: Santa Barbara (University of California), Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, 6 March 1983 Kurt Berentsen (baritone) and the University of California Santa Barbara Men’s Chorus with Glenn Walp (piano), conducted by Carl Zytowski Publication: Oxford University Press. No. 3 (vocal score): Aureus Publications © 1996 Manuscript: the composer OTHER VERSION Arranged for baritone, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra by the composer First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 24 July 1987 Christopher Lewis (baritone) and the West Glamorgan Youth Choir and Orchestra, conducted by John Jenkins 1979 FANFARE FOR THE CARDIFF TATTOO For three trumpets in B-flat and three trombones Duration: c. 3’ First performance: Cardiff, Courtyard of the Castle, 2 August 1979 Trumpeters of the Band of the Welsh Guards

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Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown GREAT IS THE LORD Anthem for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text: Psalms 84 and 145 Duration: 3’ First performance: Cardiff, 26 November 1979 Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score ©1982 Manuscript: the composer HYMNUS ANTE SOMNUM (Opus 97 No. 2) Motet for male chorus (TTBB) and organ Text: Marcus Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, translated by Alfred Moritz Commissioned by: The Pendyrus Male Choir Dedication: “In memoriam, Benjamin Britten [1913–1976]” Duration: 4’ First performance: Southwold, Parish Church of St. Edmund, King and Martyr, 23 June 1979 The Pendyrus Male Choir, directed by Glynne Jones with Huw Tregelles Wiliams (organ) First American performance: Santa Barbara (University of California), Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, 2 March 1980 The University of California Santa Barbara Mens’s Chorus and Schubertians, conducted by Carl Zytowski with Glenn Walp (organ) Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Vocal score © 1983 Manuscript: dated May 1979 Bibliography: Musical Times, 120 (August 1979), 674 (K. Loveland) NOCTURNES AND CADENZAS (Opus 101a) For cello Andante L’istesso tempo ma rubato Allegro e leggiero Meno mosso Andante

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Duration: 16’ First performance: London, St. John’s, Smith Square, 2 November 1979 Gwyneth George (cello) Publication: University College Cardiff Press © 1983 Manuscript: the composer THE RAJAH’S DIAMOND (Opus 99) Opera in one act for television, with libretto by Myfanwy Piper based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scene 1

Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7 Scene 8 Scene 9 Scene 10 Scene 11 Scene 12 Scene 13 Scene 14 Scene 15 Scene 16

The smoking room of a London men’s club. Prince Florizel is sitting, smoking a cigar, a glass of brandy on the table, reading a newspaper with jewel-theft headlines (Allegro) The club (Allegro moderato) The coffee room of the club (Pesante) The railway station (Allegro) As Scene I (Moderato) A lawyer’s office (Allegro moderato) The club (as before) (Moderato) Inside the Opera (Moderato) Outside Vandeleur’s house (Allegretto) Daylight, outside Vandeleur’s house (Allegro) A typical Paris street (Allegro) The home next to Vandeleur (Agitato) Scrymgeour is looking out of the window of his room (Andante) A brightly lit cafe (Allegro) They have arrived at Vandeleur’s house (Moderato) A Street leading to Florizel’s house (Molto moderato)

Commissioned by: BBC Wales, in association with the Welsh Arts Council to celebrate the composer’s 50th birthday 3+1.2.2+1.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(3)/celesta/piano/harp/strings Duration: 63’ First performance: Pre-recorded: Cardiff, BBC Studio ‘A’ (Broadway), 13,15,17 and 18 May 1979 This recording was subsequently shown on BBC2 on Saturday 24 November 1979 and simultaneously broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Cast: Florizel (baritone) Rolles (tenor)

Geoffrey Chard Kenneth Bowen

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Rolles’ friend (tenor) Vandeleur (bass baritone) Servant (baritone) Sleeping-car attendant (tenor) Francis Scrymgeour (tenor) Lawyer (bass) Rose (soprano) Concierge (mezzo soprano) Detective (baritone)

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The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robin Stapleton Piano accordion: Mario Conway Designer: Peter Phillips Director: Basil Coleman Producer: J. Mervyn Williams Publication: Oxford University Press Manuscript: dated April 1979 Bibliography: Opera, 31 (January 1980), 105–106 (A. Blyth); Radio Times, 24–30 November 1979, 4–6 (L. Thornton); The Times, 23 November 1979, 9 (Anon.); The Western Mail, 24 November 1979, 8 (R. Pitchford) RITORNELLI 2 (Opus 100 No. 2) For brass quintet (1) Moderato (2) Allegro molto (3) Andante (4) Adagio (5) Allegro Commissioned by: The 1979 Cheltenham Festival of British Contemporary Music Two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba Duration: 15’ First performance: Cheltenham, the Pittville Pump Room, 12 July 1979 The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 8 November 1979

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Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1980 Denis Wick Publications Full score © 2003 Manuscript: dated June 1979 SCENA FOR STRING QUARTET (Opus 100 No. 1) Moderato e rubato Presto e agitato Adagio e calmo Allegro con energico Commissioned by: The City of Portsmouth for its International String Quartet Competition as a test piece in the second stage of the competition, which was held 20–26 April 1979 Two violins, viola and cello Duration: 6’ First performance: Portsmouth, Concert Hall (Central Library), 23 April 1979 (11 times) First London performance: Wigmore Hall, 29 April 1979 The Takacs – Nagy Quartet (Hungary) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1981 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Times, 121 (March 1980), 194 (M. Boyd); The Strad, 90 (July 1979), 190–193 (G. Smith) SURVIVORS Song for unaccompanied mixed chorus (SATB) Text by Emrys Humphreys Commissioned by: The 1980 Dublin Festival Duration: 4’ First performance: Dublin, Exams Hall (Trinity College), 9 January 1980 The RTE Singers, conducted by Eric Sweeney First UK performance: unable to trace Unpublished Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Perspectives in New Music (New York), 17 (1979), 260–267 (J. O’Leary)

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1980 THE HEAVENTREE OF STARS (Opus 102) Poem for violin and orchestra Commissioned by: BBC Wales for Christopher Warren-Green and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.2.1/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/celesta/strings Dedication: “For Christopher Warren-Green” Duration: 15’ First performance: Cardiff, City Hall, 5 March 1980 Christopher Warren-Green (violin) and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes (broadcast on BBC Radio 3) Publication: Oxford University Press. Facsimile score © 1986 Manuscript: dated February 1980 Notes: The title is taken from Ulysses by James Joyce: ‘The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit …’ NOCTURNES AND CADENZAS (Opus 101b) For flute Andante Piu mosso Presto e leggiero Meno mosso Andante Dedication: “for Wissan Boustany” Duration: 12’ First performance: London, Concert hall of the Royal Academy of Music, 1 November 1990 Hallfridur Olafsdottir (flute) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1982 Manuscript: dated June 1980 1981 FANFARE FOR ST. DAVID’S AND THE FISHGUARD FESTIVAL For three trumpets (in B flat)

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Commissioned by: The 1981 Fishguard Festival for its celebration concert to mark the occasion of the marriage of HRH The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer Duration: c. 1’ First performance: Fishguard, Cathedral Church of St. David, 29 July 1981 Avelia Moisey, Barbara Snow and Elaine Wolff (trumpets) Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown LANTERNES DES MORTS (Opus 105 No. 2) For orchestra Commissioned by: The 1981 North Wales Music Festival (St.Asaph) for the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, in association with the Welsh Arts Council 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 14’ First performance: St.Asaph, Cathedral Church of St. Asaph, 21 September 1981 The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bryden Thomson First London performance: St. John’s Smith Square, 21 March 1985 The London College of Music Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Peter Turton First USA performance: Charlottesville, Peforming Arts Centre (University of Virginia), 26 February 1994 The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carl Roskett Publication: OUP (facsimile score) Manuscript: dated 1981 Recording: Chandos ABRD 1400; ABTD 1400 (cassette); CHAN 8762 (compact disc) Bibliography: Musical Times, 123 (January 1982), 46 (A.J. Heward Rees) RITORNELLI 3 (Opus 104) For four double basses Commissioned by: The London Double Bass Ensemble First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 27 April 1981 The London Double Bass Ensemble Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer

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Bibliography; The Times, 28 April 1981, 13 (H. Finch) OTHER VERSION Ritornelli (1991) For String Quartet Publication: A. Lengnick & Co.Ltd. TE DEUM (Opus 105, No. 1) For mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text from the Roman Missal (in Latin) Commissioned by: John Davies and the Dyfed Choir, with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “To John Davies and Cor Dyfed” Duration: c.6’ First performance: Fishguard, Cathedral Church of St. David, 29 July 1981 The Dyfed Choir and Huw Tregelles Williams (organ), conducted by John Davies Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1985 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Times, 122 (October 1981), 691 (A.J. Heward Rees); The Times, 3 August 1981, 9 (K. Loveland) THE TRUMPET MAJOR (Opus 103) Opera in three acts, with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the novel by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) Act one: Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5

The kitchen of Overcombe Mill (Allegro con brio) Outside Oxwell Hall (Allegretto) The Mill Garden (Allegro moderato) A hilltop near the mill (Allegro) The kitchen of Overcombe Mill (Andante)

Act two: Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4

The Mill Garden (Allegro) The Mill Garden (Allegro) The Mill Garden (Andante) The other side of the mill (Allegro)

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Scene 5 Scene 6

Outside Oxwell Hall (Moderato) A hilltop near the mill (Presto)

Act three: Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7

The Mill Garden (Allegro molto) The kitchen of Overcombe Mill (Moderato con brio) Budmouth (Allegro con brio) The Mill Garden (Moderato) The other side of the mill (Andante) The kitchen (Allegro) The Mill Garden (Allegro)

Commissioned by: The Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester 3+1.2.2+1.2+1/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/piano/celesta/strings Duration: c.150’ First performance: Manchester, Opera Theatre (RNCM), 1 April 1981 Cast: Anne Garland (soprano) Zena Jones Martha Garland (mezzo soprano) Elizabeth Gaskell John Loveday, the Trumpet Major (baritone) Jeremy Munro Robert Loveday (tenor) Philip Creasy Miller Loveday (baritone) Robert Roberts Matilda Johnson (soprano) Margaretha Orvelius Festus Derriman (baritone) Martin Bussey Benjamin Derriman (tenor) David Buxton Cripplestraw (tenor) Barry Banks Corporal Tullidge (tenor) John Pugh Tremlett (baritone) Mark Holland Sergeant Stanner (tenor) Gwion Thomas David (tenor) Pius Hume A Soldier (baritone) Anthony Mee The Press Gang: Lieutenant (tenor) Sergeant (baritone) 1st Marine (tenor) 2nd Marine (baritone) 1st Sailor (baritone) 2nd Sailor (baritone) Captain Hardy (baritone) Jim Cornick (baritone)

David Buxton David Hoult Gwion Thomas Clive Bayley Nigel Sanne Howard Charles Martin Bussey David Richards

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The Royal Northern College of Music Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by David Jordan Designer: Robin Don Lighting: Philip L. Edwards Producer: Basil Coleman Publication: Oxford University Press Manuscript: dated February 1981 Bibliography: Classical Music and Album Review, 2 May 1981, 23 (M. Morris); Country Life, 30 April 1981, 1184 (H. Cole); The Daily Telegraph, 3 April 1981, 15 (M. Kennedy); The Financial Times, 6 April 1981, 13 (A. Clements); The Guardian, 3 April 1981, 13 (G. Larner); Musical Opinion, 104 (April 1981), 246–248 (D. Byfield); Musical Opinion, 104 (June 1981), 347–349 (L. Duck); Musical Times, 122 (April 1981), 237–238 (M. Boyd); Musical Times, 122 (July 1981), 493 (D. Fallows); Opernwelt, 22 (July 1981), 60–61 (O. Trilling); The Stage and Television Today, no. 5220 (30 April 1981), 25 (J. Holliday); The South Wales Argus, 10 April 1981, 6 (K. Loveland); The Sunday Times, 5 April 1981, 40 (D. Cairns); The Sunday Times, 12 April 1981, 41 (D. Cairns); The Times, 2 April 1981, 11 (P. Griffiths); Welsh Music, VI (Summer 1981), 17–17 (C. Powell) OTHER VERSION Four Scenes from The Trumpet Major (Opus 103a) For orchestra (1) Celebration at Overcombe Mill (Allegro con brio) (2) The Mill Garden by day (Andante) (3) The Mill Garden by night (Allegro molto) (4) The Fleet at Budmouth (Allegro con brio) 2+1.2.2.2/4.3.2+1.1/timpani/percussion(3)/strings Duration: c.17’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 27 November 1982 The Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Hans Zanotelli

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First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 8 October 1984 The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes Unpublished Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Times, 124 (March 1983), 184 (M. Boyd) 1982 THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Ballad for male voices (TTBB) and piano Text: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) Commissioned by: Llaneli Male Choir and the Welsh Amateur Music Federation, in association with the Welsh Arts Council Duration: 6’ First performance: unable to trace Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Vocal score © 1982 Manuscript: dated March 1982 DOUBLES (Opus 106) Concertante for oboe, harpsichord and string orchestra In seven sections: Vivace –Presto –Moderato – Adagio – Cadenza – Allegro – Presto Commissioned by: St. David’s Cathedral Bach Festival with funds made available by the Welsh Arts Council Duration: 17’ First performance: Fishguard, Cathedral Church of St. David, 3 June 1982 Anthony Camden (oboe), Nicholas Jackson (harpsichord) and the London Virtuosi, conducted by Alun Hoddinott First London performance: Purcell Room, 7 March 1984 Unable to trace performers Unpublished Manuscript: dated May 1982 Bibliography: Classical Music, 14 August 1982, 17 (M. Morris); Musical Times, 125 (March 1984), 166–167 (M. Boyd)

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FIVE STUDIES FOR ORCHESTRA (Opus 107) (1) Allegro (Rhythm) (2) Presto (Dynamics) (3) Adagio (Sonorities) (4) Moderato quasi andante (Textures) (5) Vivace allegro (Ensemble) Commissioned by: The Welsh Joint Education Committee in association with the Welsh Arts Council 2+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.2+1.0/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: For Arthur Davison and the National Youth Orchestra of Wales Duration: c. 18’ First performance: Aberystwyth, University Great Hall, 1 August 1982 The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Arthur Davison First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 4 May 1984 Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: dated July 1982 Notes: This orchestral piece explores some particular aspect of orchestral playing, and throughout, spotlights the principals of each section in numerous cadenzas IN PARASCEVE DOMINUM: III NOCTURNO Motet for female voices (SSAA) and piano: ‘The Crucifixion of Our Lord on the Day of Preparation’ Commissioned by: The Sirenian Singers in association with the Welsh Arts Council Duration: 4’ First performance: Llangollen, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavilion, 8 July 1982 The Sirenian Singers, conducted by Jean Stanley-Jones First London performance: Purcell Room, 16 May 1986 The Ionian Singers, conducted by Timothy Salter Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Vocal score [© 1983] Manuscript: dated May 1982 Recording: TAP 002 QUODLIBET ON WELSH NURSERY TUNES For orchestra (1) Allegro [Dacw Dadi’n Mynd i’r F fair] (2) Moderato [Pedoli]

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(3) Presto [Deryn y Bwn o’r Banna] (4) Andante [Cysga di, fy Mhlentyn Tlws] (5) Allegro con brio [Dacw Mam yn Dwad] Commissioned by: South Glamorgan Youth Orchestra Parents’ Association with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council 2+1.2.3.2/4.2.3.1/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Dedication: “To Frank Kelleher and the South Glamorgan Youth Orchestra” Duration: 12’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 9 January 1983 The South Glamorgan Youth Orchestra, conducted by Frank Kelleher Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Full score © 1984 Manuscript: the composer Recordings: Phoenix DGS 1040; Trax Classique TRX 138 Notes: The items in this suite appeared in a different order (at the first performance) to that in the published score. A sixth item was also included: ‘Gee, Geffyl Bach’, which does not appear in the published score SIX WELSH FOLKSONGS Arranged for high voice and piano English words adapted by Rhiannon Hoddinott (1) Tra Bo Dau [Two hearts remain] Allegretto (2) Y Deryn Pur [O gentle dove] (Moderato) (3) Pe Cawn I Hon [If she were mine] (Allegretto) (4) Ap Sièncyn (Allegro) (5) Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn [The Golden Wheat] (Andante) (6) Mentra Gwen [Fairest Gwen] (Allegretto) Dedication: “for Stuart” [Burrows] Duration: c. 10’ First performance: Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, 2 December 1982 Maldwyn Davies (tenor) and Caryl Thomas (harp) Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1984 Manuscript: dated January 1982

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1983 INGRAVESCENTEM AETATEM [The Growing Weight of Age] (Opus 108) Four songs for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano duet Text: translated by Christopher Cory (1) To his friend Postumus (Horace) (Moderato) (2) To his wife (Ausonius) (Andantino) (3) Devouring time (Seneca the Younger) (Adagio) (4) To Lesbia (Catallus) (Allegro) Commissioned by: The Kansas State Choir Commissioning Project Dedication: “for Rod Walker” Duration: 16’ First performance: Manhatten (Kansas), McCain Auditorium (Kansas State University), 10 April 1983 Kansas State University Concert Choir with Rod Walker and Janet Anschutz (piano duet) First UK performance: unable to trace Unpublished Manuscript: dated March 1983 Bibliography: The Manhatten Mercury, 10 April 1983, D3 (I. Payne) JUBILATE : MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE Anthem for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Texts from Psalms 95, 96, 98 and 100 Commissioned by: University College (Cardiff) for the Centenary Thanksgiving Service Duration: c.4’ First performance: Llandaff, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 21 October 1983 The College Chamber Choir, conducted by Clifford Bunford with Robert Court (organ) Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1987 Manuscript: the composer KING OF GLORY Anthem for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text: from Psalm 24

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Commissioned by: The Yorkshire Arts Association Dedication: “For the Sterndale Singers” Duration: c.4’ First performance: Sheffield, Norton, the Parish Church of St. James, 16 July 1983 The Sterndale Singers, conducted by James Wild with Paul Parsons (organ) Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1985 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Sheffield Morning Telegraph, 18 July 1983, 8 (B. Lee) MASKS (Opus 109) Five theatre abstracts for oboe, bassoon and piano (1) Allegro and vivace (2) Moderato (3) Allegro (4) Andante (5) Allegro molto Commissioned by: The City of London Trio in association with the Welsh Arts Council Duration: 18’ First performance: Epsom, the Court House, 23 November 1983 The City of London Trio Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1987 Manuscript: dated March 1983 QUODLIBET ON WELSH NURSERY TUNES For brass quintet In five sections Allegretto-Moderato-Presto possible-Andante-Allegro con brio Commissioned by: Equale Brass in association with the Welsh Arts Council Horn in F, 2 trumpets in C, trombone and tuba Duration: c.12’ First performance: Huntingdon, Kimbolton Castle, 22 May 1982 Equale Brass First broadcast performance: BBC Wales, 26 February 1984

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Equale Brass Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Score © 1983 Manuscript: the composer 1984 BAGATELLES FOR OBOE AND HARP (Opus 112) In five movements (1) Allegro con brio (2) Presto (3) Cadenza (4) Andante (5) Vivace Duration: 10’ First performance: London, Purcell Room, 7 March 1984 Nicholas Daniel (oboe) and Imogen Barford (harp) First American performance: (Maryland), Jack Masur Auditorium, 28 December 1986 Jonathan Small (oboe) and Mary Ann Sharman (harp) Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1986 Manuscript: dated February 1984 THE BELLS OF PARADISE (Opus 117) A Christmas cantata for solo baritone, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra Text: selected and arranged by W. Moelwyn Merchant 3.2.3.2/4.3.3.0/timpani/percussion(4)/harp/strings Duration: 20’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 1 December 1984 David Gwesyn Smith (baritone) and the South Glamorgan Youth Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Helena Braithwaite Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Vocal score © 1984 Manuscript: the composer Recordings: Oriana Records ONA 0004; CBM 1018 Bibliography: The Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 22 November 1985, C4 (P. Durichen); Musical Times, 126 (March 1985), 168 (M. Boyd); The South Wales Echo, 3 December 1984, 4 (A.J. Sicluna)

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OTHER VERSION The Bells of Paradise Version for reduced orchestra by the composer (1990) 1.1.2.1/l.1.0.0/percussion (1/2)/piano (4 hands),strings First performance: York, University College Chapel, 30 November 1991 Jim Morgan (baritone), the Micklegate Singers and choristers of York College for Girls, and the Amici Ensemble, conducted by Dennis Freeborn Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Score © 1990 Manuscript: the composer HOMAGE À CHOPIN (Opus 107 No. 2) Studies for orchestra Commissioned by: The West Glamorgan Youth Orchestra, with funds from the Welsh Arts Council 3.1.2.2+1.2/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion/harp/strings Dedication: “To the West Glamorgan Youth Orchestra and John Jenkins” Duration: 12’ First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 2 September 1984 The West Glamorgan Youth Orchestra, conducted by John Jenkins Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The South Wales Echo, 26 November 1984, 4 (A.J. Sicluna) Notes: This piece reflects Alun Hoddinott’s affection for the piano music of Chopin and contains fragments from Chopin’s Studies for piano: Opus 10, nos. 1, 3 and 7 and Opus 25, nos. 7 and 11. These are not in a direct manner but take on subtle disguises LADY AND UNICORN (Opus 110) Cantata for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams (1) Sight (Moderato) (2) Hearing (Allegro) (3) Scent (Andante) (4) Touch (Allegretto) (5) Taste (Moderato quasi allegro) (6) The Pavilion

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Commissioned by: The Camden Chamber Choir with funds provided by the Greater London Arts Association Duration: c. 12’30” First performance: London, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, King Henry’s Road (NW3), 18 March 1984 The Camden Chamber Choir and Linn Hendry (piano), conducted by Julian Williamson Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: dated January 1984 Recordings: Libra Realsound LRS 150 Bibliography: Tempo, no. 168 (March 1989), 52–53 (M. Miller) QUARTET No. 2 FOR STRINGS (Opus 113) Moderato-Presto-Moderato-Adagio-Allegro Duration: c.15’ First performance: Belfast, Ulster Hall, 19 November 1984 The Medici Quartet First London: Purcell Room, 5 March 1985 The Medici Quartet Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Score © 1984 Manuscript: dated March 1984 Bibliography: Musical Times, 126 (May 1985), 293 (B. Millington); The Times, 6 March 1985, 15 (S. Pettitt) Notes: This Quartet is an elaboration and extension of an earlier piece for string quartet – Scena (Op.100 No.1) – written for the City of Portsmouth International Quartet Competition in 1979. SCENES AND INTERLUDES (Opus 115) Concertante for trumpet in C, harpsichord and strings (1) Moderato (2) Piacevole (3) Allegro (4) Andante (5) Adagio (6) Allegro molto (7) Presto Commissioned by: The 1984 St. David’s Festival

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Duration: 20’ First performance: Fishguard, Cathedral Church of St.David, 2 June 1984 C. Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Nicholas Jackson (harpsichord) and the London Virtuosi Players, conducted by John Geordiadis Publication: University College Cardiff Press Manuscript: the composer SONATA No. 7 FOR PIANO (Opus 114) Moderato Adagio Allegro Andante Andante Commissioned by: Martin Jones in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “For Martin Jones” Duration: 14’ First performance: London, St. John’s Smith Square, 15 May 1984 Martin Jones (piano) Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Score © 1986 Manuscript: the composer SYMPHONY No. 6 (Opus 116) For orchestra Maestoso-Allegro-Presto-Allegro-Adagio-Allegro-Maestoso Commissioned by: The 1984 Llandaff Festival with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: “To John Piper on his 80th birthday, with affection and admiration” Duration: c.24’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 15 June 1984 The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott First London performance: St. John’s Smith Square, 10 November 1987 Repertory Orchestra from the Royal Academy of Music, conducted by Colin Matters Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Facsimile score © 1986 Manuscript: dated June 1984

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Recording: Chandos ABRD 1400; ABTD 1400 (cassette); CHAN 8762 (compact disc) Bibliography: Music and Musicians, August 1984, 29 (K. Loveland); Musical Times, 125 (August 1984), 456 (M. Boyd); The South Wales Echo, 1 June 1984, 4 (A.J. Sicluna) Notes: This symphony had a subtitle –‘Odyssey’ which the composer later discarded TRIO No. 2 (Opus 111) For violin, cello and piano In three movements (1) Moderato (2) Presto (3) Adagio Dedication: “for the Stuttgart Piano Trio” Duration: c.14’ First performance: Cardiff, Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre (National Museum of Wales), 13 March 1984 The Stuttgart Piano Trio First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 18 May 1984 Publication: Oxford University Press. Score © 1987 Manuscript: dated February 1984 Bibliography: Country Life, 3 May 1984, 1237 (K. Loveland) 1985 CHRIST IS RISEN Anthem for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text: The Easter Anthems (1 Corinthians 5 & 15; Romans 6) Commissioned by: Sir Nicholas Jackson in association with the Welsh Arts Council Duration: c. 4’ First performance: unable to trace Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1986 Manuscript: dated March 1985 Notes: This anthem was commissioned during Sir Nicholas Jackson’s final year as organist of St. David’s Cathedral (1983–84)

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DIVERTIMENTI (Opus 118) For flute, bassoon, double bass and percussion (side drum, vibraphone, wood block, cymbal, temple block, tambourine, tomtom, crotale, triangle, maracas and castanet) In four movements (1) Alla Marcia (Allegro) (2) Scherzo (Presto) (3) Notturno (Adagio) (4) Finale (Con brio) Commissioned by: Musica Varia, Salzburg Duration: 18’ Dedication: “for Ensemble Musica Varia, Salzburg” First performance: Salzburg, ORF – Landestudio, 5 May 1985

Musica Varia Ensemble First UK performance: Cardiff, University Concert Hall, 24 November1986 Musica Varia Ensemble Unpublished Manuscript: dated April 1985 FANFARE AND VARIANTS For brass band Commissioned by: The National Youth Brass Band of Wales with funds made available by the Welsh Arts Council Cornets (soprano, solo 2 or 3); horns (flugel, solo, 1 and 2); baritones (1 and 2); trombones (1 and 2, bass); tubas (euphonium, EE flat and BB flat), percussion and timpani Duration: 4’15” First performance: Bangor, Pritchard Jones Hall, 4 August 1985 The National Youth Brass Band of Wales, conducted by Edward Gregson (This recording was subsequently played on BBC Radio3, 29 August 1985) First public performance: Rhyl, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavilion, 5 August 1985 The National Youth Brass Band of Wales, conducted by Edward Gregson Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: dated 26 July 1985

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FOUR WELSH DANCES [Set 3] (Opus 123) For orchestra In its original form, this work was commissioned by the BBC (London). Later the Suite was revised and re-written for a differently constituted orchestra 1.1.1.1/2.2.1.1/timpani/percussion(3)/celesta/piano/harp/strings Duration: c. 14’ First performance: London, Golders Green Hipperdrome, 19 February 1985 The BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes REVISED VERSION (1) Allegro (2) Allegretto (3) Lento (4) Presto 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Duration: c.14’ First performance: Aberystwyth, Arts Centre, 4 August 1985 The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Arthur Davison Publication: University College Cardiff Press. Facsimile score © 1985 Manuscript: the composer Recording: Black Mountain CBM 1040 Bibliography: The Western Mail, 3 March 1986, 3 (J. Greally) GREEN BROOM Ballad for male voices (TTBB) and piano Text: Anonymous Commissioned by: The Pontarddulais Choir Dedication: “For Noel Davies and the Pontarddulais Choir” Duration: c. 2’ First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 29 November 1986. The Pontarddulais Male Choir, conducted by Noel Davies Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 2004 Manuscript: dated October 1985

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PASSACAGLIA AND FUGUE (Opus 122) For organ Moderato Allegretto Commissioned by: The St. David’s Cathedral Bach Festival, in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “For Malcolm Watts” Duration: c.8’ First performance: Fishguard, Cathedral Church of St. David, 2 June1985 Malcolm Watts (organ) Unpublished Manuscript: dated May 1985 REVISED VERSION PASSACAGLIA AND FUGUE ON B.A.C.H. Allegro-Allegrissimo First performance: St.Asaph, Cathedral Church of St. Asaph, 22 September 1995 Andrew Lumsden (organ) Duration: c.8’ Publication: Paraclete Press (USA). Score © 1996 (PPM09619) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: The American Organist, 30 (November 1996), 64 (H. Mardirosian) SCENA (Opus 119) For string orchestra Moderato – Presto – Moderato – Adagio – Con brio Commissioned by: The City of London Sinfonia in association with the Welsh Arts Council Violin I and II, violas, cellos and double basses Duration: 15’15” First performance: Kristiansand (Norway), The Cathedral, 10 May 1985

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The City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier (14th International Chamber Music Festival) First London performance: Barbican Centre, 8 April 1986 The City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Grant Llewellyn Publication: Orpheus Publications. Facsimile score © 1989 Manuscript: the composer Recordings: Chandos ABRD 1400; ABTD 1400 (cassette); CHAN 8762 (compact disc) THE SILVER HOUND (Opus 121) Song cycle for tenor and piano Text: Ursula Vaughan Williams (1) Prologue (Andante) (2) Lullaby (Moderato) (3) The Schoolboy (Piu mosso] (4) The Soldier (Agitato) (5) The Lover (Adagietto) (6) The Statesman (Allegro) (7) The Old Man (Adagio) (8) Epitaph (Andante) Duration: c. 18’ First performance: London, Duke’s Hall (Royal Academy of Music), 6 January 1986 Kenneth Bowen (tenor) and Roger Steptoe (piano) Publication: Orpheus Publications. Vocal score © 1989 Manuscript: dated May 1985 Bibliography: The Guardian, 8 January 1986, 11 (M.J. White) SING A NEW SONG Anthem for mixed chorus (SSAATB) and organ Texts: from Psalms 98, 100 and 117 Commissioned by: St. Lawrence Choir, Montreal, Canada Duration: 5’ First performance: Montreal, Church of St. Lawrence, 1 September 1985 Resident church choir First UK performance: Bridgend, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavilion, 3 August 1998 The Sirenian Singers

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Publication: Oxford University Press. Vocal score © 1987 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown SONATA FOR FOUR CLARINETS (Opus 104, No.2a) Con brio-Prestissimo-Andante-Moderato-Con brio-Prestissimo Commissioned by: The Ebony Quartet, in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “for the Ebony Quartet” Duration: 10’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 21 January 1986 The Ebony Quartet First London performance: Purcel1 Room, 28 January 1986 The Ebony Quartet Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: dated December 1985 Bibliography: The Western Mail, 22 January 1986, 3 (E. Williams) OTHER VERSION Sonata for Four Saxophones (Opus 104 No.2b) Arrangement of the above for one soprano, two alto and one tenor saxophones Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS (Opus 120) Moderato Presto Adagio Con brio Commissioned by: Martin Jones and Richard McMahon Duration: c. 18’ First performance: Salzburg, Landesstudio (ORF), 4 May 1985 Martin Jones and Richard McMahon (pianos) First UK performance: unable to trace Unpublished Manuscript: dated 1985

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First performance: Cheltenham, Town Hall, 5 July 1986 The Stuttgart Piano Trio and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Daily Telegraph, 7 July 1986, 15 (M. Kennedy); The Guardian, 8 July 1986, 9 (G. Larner); The Times, 7 July 1986, 15 (R. Morrison); The Western Mail, 7 July 1986, 5 (E. Williams) DIVERSIONS (Opus 126) Concertante for horn, harpsichord and strings In eight sections Presto-Moderato-Cadenza-Andante/Adagio-Cadenza-Moderato-Presto Commissioned by: The Cardiff Chamber Orchestra Duration: c.18’ First performance: Cardiff, Concert Hall (University College, Cardiff), 2 February 1986 William Salaman (horn), Robert Court (harpsichord) and the Cardiff Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Martin Jones Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: dated June 1986 FLOWER SONGS For women’s voices and piano (1) To Blossom (Robert Herrick 1591–1674) (Moderto) (2) A Garden (Andrew Marvell 1621–1678) (Alla Marcia) (3) To Daffodils (Robert Herrick) (Andante) Commissioned by: The Sirenian Singers in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “For the Sirenian Singers” Duration: c.7’ First performance: Bridgend, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavilion, 4 August 1998 The Sirenian Singers Unpublished Manuscript: dated February 1986

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IN PRAISE OF MUSIC ‘Make glad sounds, your voices raise’ for treble voices and orchestra Text: Vivienne Price Commissioned by: The National Children’s Orchestra Duration: c.8’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 6 April 1986 The South Glamorgan High Schools’ Choir and National Children’s Orchestra, conducted by Vivienne Price Publication: A Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: The South Wales Echo, 7 April 1986, 4 (A.J. Sicluna) SONATA No. 8 FOR PIANO (Opus 125) Allegro Andante Con brio Dedication: “For Thalia Myers” Duration: c. 10’ First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 23 May 1986 Thalia Myers (piano) Publication: A. Lengnick & Cp. Ltd. Score © 1990 Manuscript: dated May 1986 1987 ASPICIENS A LONGE Anthem for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text (in Latin and Welsh) Commissioned by: Royston Havard (Extra Mural Department, University College, Cardiff), in association with the Welsh Arts Council Duration: c.6’ First performance: unable to trace Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown

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BIRTHDAY GREETINGS FOR PAUL PATTERSON’S 40th BIRTHDAY For chamber orchestra One of the specially written pieces for the birthday concert’s Finale Tribute 1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/percussion/strings (one of each) Dedication: “To Paul Patterson” Duration: c. 3’ First performance: London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 10 February 1987 Aquarius, conducted by Nicholas Cleobury Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: The Times, 11 February 1987, 17 (Anon.) CONCERTO No. 2 FOR CLARINET AND ORCHESTRA (Opus 128) In two movements Andante Presto Commissioned by: Janet Hilton 2.1.2.1/3.0.0.0/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: “For Janet Hilton” Duration: c.2l’ First performance: Manchester, Concert Hall of the Royal Northern College of Music, 20 February 1987 Janet Hilton (clarinet) and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Alun Hoddinott Publication: Oriana Publications. Full score forthcoming Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Guardian, 23 February 1987, 11 (D. Fanning); The Times, 21 February 1987, 42 (D. Fallows); The Western Mail, 4 February 1987, 2 (Anon.) THE HOLY SON OF GOD Advent carol for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text by Henry More (1613–1687) Commissioned by: George Guest for the 1987 Advent Carol Service Dedication: “To George Guest and the Choir of St.John’s College, Cambridge”

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Duration: 3’01” First performance: Cambridge, Chapel of St. John’s College, 29 November 1987 The College Choir and Robert Huw Morgan (organ), conducted by George Guest Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Vocal score © 1992 (no. 3 of Three Advent Carols) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recordings: Nimbus NI 5335 (The Sound of St.John’s) IMPROVISATIONS ON AN OLD WELSH TUNE [‘BRAINT’] For orchestra Moderato – Andante – Allegretto – Presto – Adagio – Maestoso Commissioned by: The Welsh Joint Education Committee for the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council, to celebrate Arthur Davison’s 25 years of association with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales 3+picc.2+ca.2+bc.2+cb/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: “for Arthur Davison” Duration: 13’–14’ First performance: Aberystwyth, University Great Hall, 2 August 1987 The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Arthur Davison Unpublished Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Western Mail, 4 August 1987, 3 (M. Hughes) THE LEGEND OF ST. JULIAN (Opus 124) Cantata for narrator, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra Text: Myfanwy Piper, adapted from Flaubert’s La Legrande de St.Julien Hospitalier (1880) Commissioned by: The 1987 Cardiff Festival of Music 2.1.2.1/2.1.0.0/percussion(2)/strings Duration: c. 50’ First performance: Llandaff, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 2 December 1987 Brian Kay (narrator), the Richard Hickox Singers and the City of

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London Sinfonia, conducted by Richard Hickox (The Christopher Cory

Memorial Concert) Unpublished Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Music and Musicians International, 36 (February 1988), 33 (K. Loveland); The South Wales Echo, 15 October 1987, 4 (A.J. Sicluna); The South Wales Echo, 3 December 1987, 3 (A.J. Sicluna), The Times, 4 December 1987, 16 (Anon.) WELSH DANCES FOR BRASS BAND (Opus 123a) (1) Migildi Magildi (Vivace) (2) Croen y Ddafad Felen [The Yellow Sheepskin](Andantino) (3) Wrth fynd efo Deio I Dywyn [Going with Deio to Towyn] (Allegretto) (4) Ym Mhontypridd mae Nghariad [My love dwells in Pontypridd] (Andante) (5) [No title] (Con brio) Commissioned by: The National Youth Brass Band of Wales with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council 7(Cornets) 4(Horns) 2(Baritones) I (Trombones) 3(Tubas) Timpani and Percussion Dedication: “for Tom and Alice” Duration: c.20’ First performance: Aberystwyth, the Great Hall (Penglais), 5 August 1987 The National Youth Brass Band of Wales, conducted by Edward Gregson Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Western Mail, 7 August 1987, 3 (B. Buckley); The Western Mail, 8 August 1987, 7 (A. Davies) 1987–1988 LITTLE SUITE Three pieces for trumpet with piano accompaniment (Grades 6–7) Rondino (Allegretto) 1987 Arietta (Andante) 1988 Alla Marcia (Vivo) 1988

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Publication: Brass Wind Educational Supplies Co. Score © 1988 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Notes: This suite is published in conjunction with the ‘National Association of Brass Teachers in Education’ The second piece was originally called Adagietto. The title page contains a quotation from Dylan Thomas (‘Was There A Time’): ‘…what’s never known is safest in this life…’ 1988 LINES FROM MARLOWE’S DR. FAUSTUS (Opus 131) Scena for mixed chorus (SATB), brass and percussion (1) Moderato (2) Pesante-Allegretto-poco meno mosso-andantino (3) Andante (4) Moderato (5) Adagio (6) Allegro (7) Moderato Commissioned by: the National Youth Choir of Wales with funds made available through the Welsh Arts Council Duration: c.16’ First performance: Fishguard, School Concert Hall, 28 July 1989 The National Youth Choir of Wales and the Youth Brass Ensemble of Wales, conducted by Gregory Rose First London performance: Queen Elizabeth Hall, 27 June 1992 London Concert Choir and the London Jupiter Orchestra, conducted by Gregory Rose Publication: Orpheus Publications. Vocal score © 1989 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Welsh Music, 9 (Autumn 1989), 6–16 (G. Lewis) PULLMAN PRELUDE For orchestra Commissioned by: Inter-City (British Rail) to celebrate the introduction of a new Pullman Service on their Inter-City Route between Paddington and Swansea, May 1988 3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings

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Duration: c.5’ First performance: unperformed. The concert (Brangwyn Hall, Swansea), at which this Prelude was to be performed, was cancelled Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown QUARTET No. 3 FOR STRINGS (Opus 130) Moderato-Adagio-Allegro molto-Andante-Allegro-Presto-Allegro Commissioned by: The 1988 Newbury Spring Festival, with additional funds made available by Southern Arts Association 2 violins, viola and cello Duration: c.26’ First performance: Shaw-cum-Donnington, Parish Church of St Mary, 13 May 1988 The Gabrieli String Quartet Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer TARANTELLA For harp and orchestra Commissioned by: BBC Wales 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.2+1.1/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: c.8’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 1 March 1988 Ieuan Jones (harp) and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes Unpublished Manuscript: BBC Wales 1989 NOCTIS EQUI (Opus 132) Poem for cello and orchestra Andante Presto Andante Presto Cadenza Andante Adagio

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Commissioned by: The London Symphony Orchestra, in association with Shell UK 3+1.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: “for Mstislav Rostropovich” Duration: 21’ First performance: London, Barbican Centre, 27 October 1989 Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Study score © 1990 Manuscript: the composer Recording: Erato 2292 45489-2 Bibliography: The Guardian, 30 November 1989, 35 (D. Nice); The Strad, 100 (October 1989), 822–826 (G. Lewis); The Strad, 101 (January 1990), 12–13 (M. Miller); The Times, 30 October 1989, 21 (N. Goodwin); Welsh Music, 9 (Autumn 1989), 6–16 (G. Lewis) RHAPSODY ON WELSH TUNES For orchestra Commissioned by: The Welsh Joint Education Committee for the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council 3+picc.2+ca.2+bc.2+cb/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Dedication: To Arthur Davison and the National Youth Orchestra of Wales Duration: 10’ First performance: Aberystwyth, Great Hall (University College), 6 August 1989 The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Arthur Davison First public performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 11August 1989 (the composer’s 60th birthday) The National Youth Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Arthur Davison Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer SONATA No. 9 FOR PIANO (Opus 134) (1) Vivo (2) Calmo (3) Tempi

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Commissioned by: Simon Shewring with funds from the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “for Simon Shewring” Duration: 14’ First performance: Cheltenham, Pittville Pump Room, 15 July 1989 Simon Shewring (piano) First London performance : Croydon, Fairfield Hall, 29 January 1991 Simon Shewring (piano) Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Opinion, 117 (February 1994), 53–54 (Anon.); Musical Times, 130 (October 1989), 631 (K. Loveland); The South Wales Echo, 14 November 1989, 4 (A.J. Sicluna); Welsh Music, 9 (Autumn 1989), 6–16 (G. Lewis) SONATA No. 10 FOR PIANO (Opus 136) Andante Allegretto Presto Commissioned by: Raymond Clarke Duration: 12’ First performance: London, Purcell Room, 27 September 1989 Raymond Clarke (piano) First Welsh performance: Aberystwyth, Joseph Parry Hall (University College, Wales), 15 November 1989. Raymond Clarke (piano) Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Score © 1999 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Welsh Music, 9 (Autumn 1989), 6–16 (G. Lewis) SONGS OF EXILE (Opus 133) Song cycle for tenor and orchestra Text: Emyr Humphreys (1) The tide fingers the same (Moderato) (2) Everywhere lovers are victims (Adagio) (3) Remorseless package (Presto) (4) What is the point of flying (Allegro) (5) Angel or spirit (Adagio) (6) How can my world end (Moderato)

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Commissioned by: BBC Wales 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.l/timpani/percussion (2)/harp/strings Dedication: “for Robert Tear on his 50th birthday” Duration: c. 18’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 22 April 1989 Robert Tear (tenor) and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The South Wales Echo, 20 October 1989, 8 (A.K. Sicluna); Welsh Music, 9 (Autumn 1989), 6–16 (G. Lewis) STAR CHILDREN (Opus 135) For orchestra Commissioned by: The BBC for the 1989 Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 3+l.2+l.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(4)/harp/strings Duration: 20’ First performance: London, Royal Albert Hall, 7 September 1989. The BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Armstrong Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Financial Times, 9 September 1989, xxi (D. Murray); The Independent, 9 September 1989, 34 (R. Maycock); Musical Times, 130 (November 1989), 697 (A. Hall); The Times, 8 September 1989, 14 (S. Pettitt) SYMPHONY No. 7 (Opus 137) For organ and orchestra In three movements (1) Vivo (2) Calmo (3) Energico Commissioned by: The 1989 Swansea Festival, in association with the Welsh Arts Council 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(3)/strings Duration: c.22’ First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 17 October 1989

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Jane Watts (organ) and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Hickox Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Guardian, 19 October 1989, 29 (G. Larner); Musical Opinion, 113 (January 1990), 28 (Anon.) WELSH DANCES [Set 4] For Symphonic Wind Band In four movements (1) Con brio (2) Grazioso (3) Tenerezza (4) Vivo Commissioned by: The American Waterways Wind Orchestra Flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, tubas, percussion (5), harp and piano/organ Duration: c.9’ First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 28 June 1989 The AWWO, conducted by Robert A. Boudreau Unpublished Manuscript: the composer 1990 THE COMING OF THE LORD Advent carol for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text: B.H. Kennedy (1804–1889) Commissioned by: George Guest for the 1990 Advent Carol Service Dedication: “To George Guest and the Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge” Duration: 2’57” First performance: Cambridge, Chapel of St. John’s College, 2 December 1990 The College Choir and Alexander Martin (organ), conducted by George Guest Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Vocal score © 1992 (no. 1 of Three Advent Carols)

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Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recording: Nimbus NI 5335 (The Sound of St.John’s) DWY GAROL [2 carols] For male chorus (TTBB) and piano Text: Rev. Llywelyn C. Huws (1) Yn y preseb ym Methlehem [In a manger in Bethlehem] (Andantino) (2) Daeth dydd Nadolig eto ar ei rawd [Christmas day has come again] (Andante) Composed at the invitation of Glynne Jones for the Pendyrus Male Choir Duration: c. 5’ First performance: Bridgend, 31October 1992 Pendyrus Male Choir, conducted by Glynne Jones Publication: Paraclete Press (USA) as Two Carols for Christmas. Vocal score © 1994 (PPM09403) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown EMYNAU PANTYCELYN [Hymns of Pantycelyn] (Opus 138) For baritone solo, mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra Text: William Williams (1) Pererin wyf (Moderato) (2) Iesu, Iesu rwyt Ti’n ddigon (3) Rwy’n edrych dros y bryniau pell (Più mosso) (4) Mi bellach goda ma’s (Allegretto) (5) O nefol addfwyn Oen (Più mosso) Commissioned by: the Royal National Eisteddfod, Cwm Rhymni, 1990 in association with the Welsh Arts Council 3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 15’ First performance: Rhymney Valley, Royal National Eisteddfod Pavilion, 5 August 1990 David Gwesyn Smith (baritone), the RNE Choir and BBC Welsh Orchestra, conducted by Grant Llewellyn Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Vocal score © 1990 (Welsh Edition) Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Times, 6 August 1990, 12 (K. Loveland)

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Notes: William Williams, known usually as Pantycelyn, was one of the greatest of all Welsh poets and certainly the greatest hymn-writer TWO PIECES FOR TROMBONE AND PIANO (1) Promenade (Allegretto) (2) Capriccio (Allegretto) Publication: Brass Wind Educational Supplies Co. Score © 1991. Both appear in an album of solos with piano accompaniment called Top Line Manuscript: whereabouts unknown TWO SONGS FROM GLAMORGAN [Dwy Gan o Forgannwg] For tenor and piano Text: traditional (1) My love dwells in Pontypridd (Andante) [1’47”] (2) Farewell to fair Llangyfelach (Allegro non troppo) [2’24”] Written for the 80th birthday celebrations of Sir Cennydd Traherne First performance: Cardiff, City Hall, 12 December 1990 Stuart Burrows (tenor) and John Samuel (piano) Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown OTHER VERSION Arrangement for baritone and piano by the composer First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 23 January 2001 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 2004 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recordings: SAIN SCD 2318

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1991 A MAY SONG For mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra Text: Thomas Ashe (1836–1889)); Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) and John Milton (1608–1674) Commissioned by: The 1992 Garden Festival, Wales Duration: c.10’ First performance: Ebbw Vale (Garden Festival), Lake-side Arena, 5 May 1992 (Official Opening Ceremony) Combined School Choirs and Gwent Schools Band, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes First concert performance: Cardiff, St.David’s Hall, 7 July 1992 Combined Schools Choirs and Gwent Schools Band, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes Unpublished Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: The Western Mail, 5 May 1992, 3 (C. Betts) NOVELETTE (Opus 139) For flute, oboe and piano Moderato Vivace Lento Moderato Con brio Duration: c.15’ First performance: Brockenhurst, College Hall, 19 April 1991 The Oriel Trio Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD Advent carol for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text: B.H. Kennedy (1804–1889) Commissioned by: George Guest for the 1991 Advent Carol Service Dedication: “To George Guest and the Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge”

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Duration: 1’40” First performance: Cambridge, Chapel of St. John’s College, 1 December 1991 The College Choir and Philip Scriven (organ), conducted by Christopher Robinson Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Vocal score © 1992 (no. 2 of Three Advent Carols) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recordings: Nimbus NI 5335 (The Sound of St.John’s) where it is listed as ‘Saviour of the Nations’ SONATA FOR FLUTE AND PIANO (Opus 140) In four movements (1) Allegretto (2) Presto (3) Andante (4) Vivo Dedication: “for Julian Cawdrey” Duration: 16’ First performance: Harrogate, Old Swan Hotel, 6 August 1991 Julian Cawdrey (flute) and Jan Shultsz (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2004 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown SET ME AS A SEAL UPON THINE HEART [Caniad Solomon] Wedding Anthem for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text: Song of Solomon 2:10–13; 8:6,7 Composed to celebrate the wedding of Manon Jenkins and Jeremy Huw Williams Duration: c.5’ First performance: Cambridge, Chapel of St. John’s College, 28 September 1991 The choir of St. John’s College, conducted by George Guest Publication: Paraclete Press (USA). Vocal score © 1994 (PPM09404) Manuscript: Jeremy Huw Williams Notes: This event also marked the retirement of Dr George Guest as Director of Music at the chapel of St. John’s College

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1992 SONATA No. 5 FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (Opus 141) In four movements Allegro assai Adagio Allegro assai-Presto non troppo Quasi cadenza-adagio (Played without a break) Commissioned by: Charles Libove and Nina Lugovoy Duration: c.17’ First performance: New York, University Center for Performance, 1 April 1992 Charles Libove (violin) and Nina Lugovoy (piano) First UK performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 17 May 1995 Louise Jones (violin) and Iwan Llewelyn-Jones (piano) Publication: Aureus © 1995 Manuscript: the composer VESPERS CANTICLE For mixed chorus (SSATB) and organ Text: Revelation, 15:3–4 Commissioned by; St. David’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Cardiff Dedication: “for David Neville and St. David’s Cathedral Choir” Duration: c.7’ First performance: Cardiff, Cathedral Church of St. David, 15 May 1992 Cathedral choir, conducted by David Neville (Feast day of St. John Baptist de la Salle) Publication: Paraclete Press (USA). Vocal score © 1995 (PPM09508) Manuscript: the composer SYMPHONY No. 8 (Opus 142) For brass and percussion In four movements (1) Allegro moderato (2) Presto (3) Adagio (4) Allegro assai

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Commissioned by: The National Youth Brass Band of Wales in association with the Welsh Arts Council 7 cornets, 4 horns, 2 baritones, 2 trombones, bass trombone, euphonium, two tubas, timpani and percussion (6) Duration: c.20’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 20 September 1992 The National Youth Brass Band of Wales, conducted by Ray Farr Unpublished Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Tempo, no. 182 (September 1992), 70 (Anon.) PARADWYS MAI [The Paradise of May] (Opus 143 No.1) Three Songs to poems by Saunders Lewis for mezzo-soprano and string quartet with piano (1) Y Pîn [The Pines] (Adagietto) [3’46”] (2) Difiau Dyrchafael [Ascension Thursday] (Allegrissimo) [2’07”] (3) Mai 1972 [May 1972] (Moderato) [2’21”] Commissioned by: The 1992 Lower Machen Festival First performance: Lower Machen (South Wales), Parish Church of St. Michael, 26 June 1992 Gaenor Ellis (mezzo-soprano), Caroline Clemmow (piano), Janet Masters and David LePage (violins), David Curtis (viola) and Martin Thomas (cello) Unpublished Manuscript: the composer OTHER VERSION Arrangement for baritone and piano (2001) First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 23 January 2001 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano) Recordings: SAIN SCD 2318 CHORALES, VARIANTS AND FANFARES (Opus 144) For organ and brass quintet (two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba) In three movements (1) Moderato

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(2) Presto (3) Lento Duration: c.10’ First performance: Swansea, Brangwyn Hall, 12 October 1992 Unable to trace performers Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2003 Manuscript: the composer GLORIA (Opus 143 No. 2) For mixed chorus (SATB and divisi) and organ Text: from the Roman Missal Commissioned by: John S. Davies and the Pembrokeshire Youth Choir Dedication: “For John S. Davies and the Pembrokeshire Youth Choir” Duration: c.6’ First performance: Tenby, Parish Church of St. Mary, 26 September 1992 The Pembrokeshire Youth Choir, conducted by John S. Davies Publication: Paraclete Press (USA). Vocal score © 1993 (PPM 09320) Manuscript: the composer THE GATES OF HEAV’N (Opus 143 No.3) Advent carol for mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Text by C. Coffin (1676–1749), edited by W. J. Blair (1808–1894) Commissioned by: Christopher Robinson for the 1994 Advent Carol Service Dedication: “for Christopher Robinson and the Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge” Duration: c. 3’ First performance: Cambridge, the Chapel of St. John’s College, 27 November 1994. The College Choir and Alan Walker (organ), conducted by Christopher Robinson Publication: Paraclete Press (USA). Vocal score © 1996 (PPM09609) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: Sacred Music, 124 (Spring 1997), 23 (S. Treacy) SYMPHONY No. 9: A VISION OF ETERNITY (Opus 145) For soprano and orchestra In three movements

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(1) I stood among my valleys of the south (William Blake 1757–1827) (Allegro) (2) Some say that gleams of a remote world (Percy B. Shelley 1792–1822) (Adagio) (3) The world of imagination is the world of Eternity (William Blake) (Moderato) Commissioned by: St. David’s Hall, Cardiff to mark its 10th Anniversary, with funds provided by Cardiff City Council and the Welsh Arts Council 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.2+1.1/timpani/percussion(4)/harp/soprano/strings Duration: 28’15” First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 30 January 1993 Dame Gwyneth Jones (soprano) and the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tadaaki Otaka Publication: A. Lengnick & Co. Ltd. Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: BMS Newsletter, no. 57 (March 1993), 176 (P. Reynolds); Musical Opinion, 116 (March 1993), 104 (Anon.); Musical Times, 134 (March 1993), 166 (K. Loveland); The Times, 3 February 1993, 31 (K. Loveland); The Western Mail, 18 January 1993, 10 (R. Clarke); The Western Mail, 1 February 1993, 9 (M. Bell) 1993 THREE MOTETS (Opus 143 No. 4) For mixed chorus (SATB) and organ (1) Death be not proud (John Donne) ‘Sonnet VI’ (Allegro) (2) The nature of infinity is this (William Blake) ‘Milton’ (Andante) (3) They are all gone into the world of Light (Henry Vaughan) (Allegro) Commissioned by: Alice Witherspoon Bliss in memory of her mother Dedication: “In Memory of Evelyn Lee Witherspoon” [1896–1987] Duration: c.16’ First performance: Emory University (Georgia, USA), Cannon Chapel, 17 October 1993 Emory University Concert Choir, conducted by Alfred Calabrese Publication: Paraclete Press (USA). Vocal score © 1993 (PPM09333) Manuscript: the composer

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QUINTET (Opus 146) For flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon In four movements (1) Vivo (2) Volante (3) Calmo (4) Con brio Commissioned by: by Professor Tony Hazell in association with the Welsh Arts Council, in memory of his mother Dedication: “for the New Chamber Ensemble of Wales” Duration: c.15’ First performance: Reynoldston, Parish Church, 22 July 1993 (Gower Festival). NCEW Unpublished Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Opinion, 117 (January 1994), 27 (Anon.) SONATA No. 11 FOR PIANO (Opus 147) Andante-piu mosso-presto-sempre legato Commissioned by: The 1993 Criccieth Festival in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “In Memoriam William Mathias” Duration: 16’ First performance: Criccieth, Memorial Hall, 19 June 1993 Iwan Llewelyn-Jones (piano) First London performance: Wigmore Hall, 15 July 1994 Iwan Llewelyn-Jones (piano) Publication: Aureus © 1996 Manuscript: the composer IMPROVIATIONS ON AN OLD WELSH TUNE For soprano, male chorus (TTBB) and orchestra Commissioned by: Opus Television for a film that was never made Instrumentation: unable to trace Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown

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1994 MISSA SANCTI DAVID (Opus 148) For treble voices, tenor, double chorus (SSAATTBB), piano (four hands), organ and percussion (two players) Introit: Let us rejoice in the Lord (Andante) Kyrie eleison (Piu mosso) Gloria (Allegro) Collect: Thou who didst foretell the coming (Moderato) Gradual: Lord thou hast prevented (Andante) Sequence: David the faithful witness (Allegro) Credo (Allegro) Offertory: I have found David my servant (Andante) Sanctus (Allegretto) Agnus Dei (Moderato) Communion: Blessed is that servant (Moderato) Post Communion: Repleti domine (Andante) Commissioned by: The 1994 Fishguard Music Festival with funds provided by the Arts Council of Wales Dedication: “ad majorem gloriam Deo: For J.S. and the John S. Davies Singers” Duration: 35’ First performance: Fishguard, Cathedral Church of St. David, 30 July 1994 John Hudson (tenor), Michael Slaney and Hugh Thomas (pianos), Graham Reader and Paul Philbert (percussion), Jane Watts (organ) and the John S. Davies Singers and Orchestra, conducted by John S. Davies Publication: Samuel King (Cardigan). Full score © 1994; Vocal score © 1994 Manuscript: dated ‘St. David’s Day, 1 March 1994’ Bibliography: G. Lewis: Programme notes for the first performance. 1994 Festival Programme Book, pp. 58–61; Musical Opinion, 117 (Autumn 1994), 272 (Anon.) SONATA No. 12 FOR PIANO (Opus 149) Andante-Allegro-Andante-Adagio-Andante-Presto-Andante Commissioned by: Simon Shewing in association with the Welsh Arts Council

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Duration: c.17’ First performance: London, St. John’s, Smith Square, 18 April 1994 Simon Shewing (piano) First Welsh performance: St.Asaph, Cathedral Church of St. Asaph, 22 September 1997 Roger Owens (piano) Publication: Aureus © 1996 Manuscript: the composer SIX BAGATELLES FOR VIOLIN, 2 VIOLAS AND CELLO (Opus 150) Moderato Presto Allegro Adagio Moderato Allegro quasi prestissimo Commissioned by: The 1994 Lower Machen Festival in association with the Arts Council of Wales Duration: c.15’ First performance: Lower Machen, Parish Church of St. Michael, 24 June 1994 A. Marwood (violin), T. Boulton and James Boyd (violas), and A. Hess (cello) Unpublished Manuscript: the composer LINES FROM ‘THE MUSIC MAKERS’ For mezzo soprano and female chorus (SSAA) Text: Arthur O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881) Commissioned by: The Richard Williams Singers Duration: c.15’ First performance: Llantrisant, Leisure Centre, 16 September 1995 Helen Hessey-White (mezzo soprano) and the Richard Williams Singers, conducted by Richard Williams Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown

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THREE HYMNS (Opus 151 No. 1) For mixed chorus (SATB) and organ (1) Forgetting God (Thomas Seymour) (Andante) (2) A Hymn to God the Father (John Donne) (Poco Lento) (3) A True Hymn (George Herbert) (Allegro) Commissioned by: The 1994 North Wales Festival in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “for George Guest on his 70th birthday” Duration: 16’ First performance: St. Asaph, Cathedral Church of St. Asaph, 18 September 1994 (North Wales Music Festival) Lady Margaret Singers and Jeremy Filsell (organ), conducted by George Guest Publication: Paraclete Press (USA). Vocal score © 1997 (PPM09701) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown THREE SHAKESPEARE SONGS (Opus 151 No. 2) For unaccompanied mixed voices (SSAATTBB) (1) Shall I compare thee (Sonnet 18) (Allegretto) (2) Fear no more (Dirge, Cymbeline) (Adagio) (3) Let me not to the marriage (Sonnet 116) (Moderato) Commissioned by: The Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music in association with the Arts Council of Wales for the Joyful Company of Singers Dedication: ‘The Joyful Company of Singers’ Duration: 10’ First performance: Swansea, Parch Church of St. Mary, 14 October 1994 The Joyful Company of Singers, conducted by Peter Broadbent Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 2001 Manuscript: the composer THE SILVER SWIMMER (Opus 152 No. 1) For soprano and ensemble Text: Jon Manchip White Commissioned by: The Composers’ Ensemble Duration: 8’

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First performance: Swansea, Taliesin Arts Centre (Swansea University), 20 October 1994 (Swansea Festival) Mary Wiegold (soprano) and the Composers’ Ensemble, conducted by Michael Rafferty Publication: Aureus Manuscript: the composer Notes: This is the composer’s second setting of Jon Manchip White’s text FIVE POEMS OF GUSTAVO ADOLFO BECQUER (Opus 152 No. 2) For baritone and piano Text translated from the Spanish by Ifan Payne (1) Today the earth and the skies smile at me (Moderato) [2’26”] (2) The invisible atoms of the air (Allegro) [1’37”] (3) Who would be a moonbeam? (Moderato) [3’18”] (4) Sighs are air and return to the air (Adagio) [1’24”] (5) We are born as if in the blinding moment (Allegro) [1’20”] Commissioned by: Jeremy Huw Williams in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication : “for Jeremy” First performance: Manchester, Royal Exchange Theatre, 17 November 1994 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 2000 Manuscript: Jeremy Huw Williams Recordings: SAIN SCD 2318 ‘ONE MUST ALWAYS HAVE LOVE’ (Opus 152 No. 3) Song cycle for high voice and piano (1) Sonnet (C. Rosetti) (Moderato) (2) Daisy (E. Dickinson) (Allegro) (3) Tasmanian Poem (A.Bliss) (Andantino) (4) The Ragged Wood (W.B.Yeats) (Moderato) Commissioned by: Alice Bliss in memory of her mother Evelyn Lee Weatherspoon Duration: 20’ First performance: Morrow (Georgia, USA), Spivey Hall (Music Department, Clayton State College), 19 April 1998

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Cheryl Boyd-Waddell (soprano) and John Schuster-Craig (piano) First UK performance: Lower Machen, Parish Church of St. Michael, 27 June 1998 Gail Pearson (soprano) and Michael Pollock (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2000 Manuscript: the composer 1995 CONCERTO No. 2 FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (‘Le Mistral’) Opus 153) In three movements (1) Moderato (2) Vivo (3) Presto Commissioned by: The BBC 3.3.3.4/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Duration: 28’04” First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 6 June 1996 Dong-Suk Kang (violin) with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Tadaaki Otaka Publication: Oriana Publications: forthcoming – full score and piano reduction Manuscript: the composer CONCERTO FOR TRUMPET AND ORCHESTRA (‘The Shining Pyramid’) (Opus 154) In four movements (1) Vivo (2) Presto (3) Andante (4) Vivo Commissioned by: The Welsh Proms 3+1.2.2.2/4.2.2+1.0/timpani/percussion(3)/strings Dedication: “for Gareth Small” Duration: 20’

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First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 22 July 1995 Gareth Small (trumpet) and the Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 19 September 2005 Philippe Schartz (trumpet) and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Douglas Bostock Publication: Oriana Publications. Full score © 2001 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Opinion, 118 (Autumn 1995), 163 (Anon.) OTHER VERSION Movements 3 and 4 transcribed for brass band by Christopher Painter Commissioned by: The Welsh Amateur Music Federation with additional funding from the Arts Council of Wales and the PRS Foundation First performance: Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre, 28 July 2005 Gareth Small (trumpet) and the National Youth Brass Band of Wales, conducted by Ray Farr Unpublished DAWNS Y NADOLIG [A Christmas Dance] Carol for female voices (SSA) and piano Text: W. Rhys Nicholas Duration: c.4’ First performance: unable to trace – may have been in July 1996 Publication: [Gomer Press] in ‘Wyth Carol Newydd’ (no. 5 of Eight New Carols) [© 1995] Manuscript: whereabouts unknown TYMHORAU: PEDAIR O GERDDI GWYN THOMAS [Seasons: Four Poems of Gwyn Thomas] (Opus 155) Songs for baritone and piano (1) Din Lligwy [Din Lligwy] (Moderato) [4’33”] (2) Lusard [Lizard](Allegro) [1’42”] (3) Deilen [Leaf](Andante) [3’37”] (4) Nos o Aeaf [Winter Night](Allegro) [2’56”]

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Commissioned by: Jeremy Huw Williams in association with the Welsh Arts Council First performance: Machynlleth, The Tabernacle Cultural Centre, 22 August 1995 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano) First London performance: Purcell Room, 10 January 1997 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications Manuscript: the composer Recordings: SAIN SCD 2318 OTHER VERSION Arrangement for voice and string orchestra (3.3.3.5) by the composer (1996) First performance (no. 4 only): Criccieth, Memorial Hall, 23 June 1996 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and the Northern Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Ben Holland ‘POETRY OF EARTH’ (Opus 156) Songs for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano duet (1) On the Grasshopper and Cricket (Keats) (Andante) (2) Song : I Had a Dove (Keats) (Andante) (3) Sonnet to a Cat (Keats) (Allegro) (4) On a Spaniel called Beau (Cowper) (Moderato) Commissioned by: Helena Braithwaite in association with the Arts Council of Wales for the Cardiff Ardwyn Singers Duration: c.15’ First performance: Cardiff, City Hall, 25 November 1995 The Ardwyn Singers with Janice Ball and Karen Howard (pianos), conducted by Helena Braithwaite Unpublished Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Classical Music, no. 594 (15 November 1997), 9 (Anon.)

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SONATA FOR OBOE AND HARP (Opus 157) In one movement Moderato-Presto-Moderato-Adagio-Allegro quasi presto Dedication: “for Helena Gaunt and Manon Morris” Duration: c.15’ First performance: Cardiff, The Point (Cardiff Bay), 20 November 1995 Helena Gaunt (oboe) and Manon Morris (harp) Publication: Alun Hoddinott © 1998 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Musical Opinion, 119 (February 1996), 11 (Anon.) DARK MARCH For piano Commissioned by: Thalia Myers with funds provided by the Arts Council of England, The Holst Foundation and the Britten-Pears Foundation Duration: 2’01” First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 22 June 1996 Thalia Myers (piano) Publication: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) © 1996 (in Spectrum: 20 contemporary works for solo piano) Manuscript: dated ‘October 1995’ Recording: NME NMCD057 1996 MASS OF THE PILGRIMS: THE CAMARGUE MASS [Offeren y Camargue] (Opus 158) For baritone/speaker, mixed chorus (SATB), 2 pianos, organ, timpani and percussion (3 players) Text: Twn Morys and based on the tale of three saints, Sainte Marie Jacobé, Sainte Marie Salomé and Sainte Sara, that is celebrated each year in the South of France. In Welsh, English and Latin And the curtain (Moderato) Kyrie (L’istesso tempo) And who are these? (Allegrissimo)

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Gloria (L’istesso tempo) There were ten thousand (Allegro) Credo (L’istesso tempo) You are a thousand times more beautiful (Andante) Sanctus (Meno mosso) Benedictus (Andante) Agnus Dei (Lento) Commissioned by Opus Television Duration: 54’ First performance: Llandaff, Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 9 April 1998 (shown on S4C) Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), John S. Davies Singers and Ensemble, conducted by John S. Davies Publication: Oriana Publications. Score forthcoming Manuscript: the composer SONATA No. 3 FOR CELLO AND PIANO (Opus 159) In five movements (1) Allegro (2) Andante (3) Presto (4) Andante (5) Allegro Commissioned by: Nia Harries in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “for Nia Harries and Pamela Lidiard” Duration: 20’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 21 May 1996 Nia Harries (cello) and Pamela Lidiard (piano) First London performance: Wigmore Hall, 3 July 1997 Nia Harries (cello) and Pamela Lidiard (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2000 Manuscript: the composer MAGNIFICAT AND NUNC DIMITTIS (St. DAVID’S SERVICE) For mixed chorus (SATB) and organ Commissioned by: The 1996 St. David’s Festival in association with the Welsh Arts Council

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Dedication: “for Geraint Bowen, Michael Slaney and St. David’s Cathedral Choir” Duration: 10’ First performance: St. David’s, Cathedral Church of St. David, 26 May 1996 The Cathedral Choir with Michael Slaney (organ), conducted by Geraint Bowen Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 1999 Manuscript: the composer FESTIVO: MUSIC FOR A CELEBRATION For flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, violin, viola and cello Written to mark the retirement of Sir John Manduell as Principal of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester Duration: c.6’ First performance: Manchester, Sema Group Concert Hall, 16 June 1996 The RNCM Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Edward Warren Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown QUARTET No. 4 FOR STRINGS (Opus 160) In three movements (1) Moderato (2) Allegro (3) Adagio-Presto Commissioned by: The Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust in association with the Welsh Arts Council Duration: c.20’ First performance : Machynlleth, The Tabernacle Cultural Centre, 23 August 1996 The Bridge String Quartet Publication: Aureus © 1997 Manuscript: the composer TRIO (Opus 161) For violin, cello and piano Grace-Vivo-Grave-Moderato-Presto-Grave

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Commissioned by: The 1996 Fishguard Festival with funds from the Welsh Arts Council Duration: 15’ First performance: Fishguard, School Concert Hall, 24 July 1996 Fenella Barton (violin), Nia Harries (cello) and Pamela Lidiard (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © [n.d.] Manuscript: the composer SONATA No. 2 FOR CLARINET AND PIANO (Opus 162) In four movements (1) Moderato (2) Presto (3) Adagio (4) Vivo-Andante-Vivo Commissioned by: Peryn Clement Evans and Harvey Davies in association with the Welsh Arts Council Duration: 18’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 1 February 1997 Peryn Clement Evans (clarinet) and Harvey Davies (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 1999 Manuscript: the composer 1997 CANEUON INDEG [Songs for Indeg] Three Welsh nursery tunes arranged for baritone and harp (1) Pedoli, Pedoli [Shoe the Horse] (Allegretto) [1’38”] (2) Cysga di [Sleep, my baby](Andante) [2’21”] (3) Gee, Geffyl Bach [Gee up, little horse] (Vivo) [0’48”] Written to mark the birth of Indeg Williams Dedication: “to Manon and Jeremy-and Indeg” First performance: BBC Radio (Wales), 17 June 2002 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Manon Morris (harp) Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 2004 Manuscript: Jeremy Huw Williams Recordings: SAIN SCD 2318

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SONATA No. 6 FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (Opus 163) In four parts, played without a break Moderato-Presto-Adagio-Vivo Commissioned by: Elenid Owen in association with the Arts Council of Wales Dedication: “for Elenid” Duration: 18’ First performance: Lower Machen, Parish Church of St. Michael, 28 June 1997 Elenid Owen (violin) and Richard Ormrod (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 1998 Manuscript: the composer Notes: This work is the 1000th new work funded by the Welsh Arts Council since the commissioning scheme was introduced in 1969. The first work commissioned and funded was Alun Hoddinott’s Horn Concerto for the 1970 Llandaff Festival LIZARD For piano Suggested by “Lizard”, a poem by Gwyn Thomas Commissioned by: Thalia Myers with financial support from the BrittenPears Foundation Duration: 0’53” First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 18 May 1999 Thalia Myers (piano) Publication: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) © 1999 (in Spectrum 2: 30 Miniatures for solo piano) Manuscript: dated August 1997 Recording: NME NMCD 057 TEMPI (Opus 164) Sonata for harp Tempo 1: Andante/Tempo 2: Presto/Tempo 1: Andante/Tempo 3: Adagio/Tempo 2: Presto/Tempo 4: Moderato/Tempo 5: Andante/ Tempo 6: Allegro/Tempo 1: Andante/Tempo 4: Moderato/Tempo 6: Allegro/Tempo 3: Adagio/Tempo 5: Andante/Tempo 2: Presto

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Commissioned by: The 1997 North Wales Festival (for Manon Morris) in association with the Arts Council of Wales Duration: 12’06” First performance: St. Asaph, Cathedral Church of St. Asaph, 25 September 1997 Manon Morris (harp) Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 1999 Manuscript: the composer Recordings: SAIN SCD2484 THE POETRY OF EARTH [Barddoniaeth Daear] (Opus 165) Five songs for baritone and harp Introduction: Poetry of Earth Andante [0’36”] (1) On the grasshopper and cricket (Keats) (Allegramente) [2’26”] (2) The snail (Bourne) (Andante) [2’48”] (3) I had a dove (Keats) (Lento) [3’02”] (4) The Boy and the Birds (Whitman) (Allegro) [4’39”] (5) To Nature (Coleridge) (Moderato) [1’52”] Commissioned by: Jeremy Huw Williams and Manon Morris First performance: Croydon, Fairfield Hall, 25 November 1997 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Manon Morris (harp) Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 1999 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recordings: SAIN SCD 2484 1998 ISLAND OF DRAGONS (Opus 166 No. 1) Variants for cello “the Komodo Dragon slumbered on its secret volcanic island protected by seas, breathing only I dream and myth” Ring of Fire (Blair) Moderato quasi andante; Presto; Adagio; Allegretto; Meno Mosso; Moderato quasi andante; Adagio; Presto; Adagio Commissioned by: Royston Havard (Department of Continuing Education, University College, Cardiff), in association with the Welsh Arts Council Duration: 22’

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First performance: Rhmney Valley, Music Club, 26 February 1998 Liwei Qin (cello) First London performance: Wigmore Hall, 1 March 2002 Kathryn Price (cello) Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 1998 Manuscript: the composer DRAGONFIRE (Opus 167) Concertante for timpani, percussion and orchestra Quasi presto-Adagio-Presto-Moderato-Adagio-Presto-Moderato-Allegro Commissioned by: The BBC in association with the Arts Council of Wales to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the formation of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.2+1.1/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Duration: 19’32” First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 25 April 1998 The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 1998 Manuscript; whereabouts unknown LIZARD (Opus 166 No. 2) Variants for solo treble recorder Inspired by the poem ‘Lizard’ by Gwyn Thomas Presto-Andante-Allegro-Adagio-Andante-Allegro-Presto Commissioned by: John Turner Dedication: “for John Turner, to play in celebration of Sir John Manduell’s 70th birthday” Duration: 5’38” First performance: Tenby, Parish Church of St. Mary, 25 September 1998 John Turner (recorder) (A 1998 Tenby Festival concert) First performance in England: Manchester, Bridgewater Hall, 27 September 1998 John Turner (recorder) Publication: Peacock Press © 2005 (PJT043) Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recordings: CAMEO 2038

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GRONGAR HILL (Opus 168) Scena for baritone, string quartet and piano Text: John Dyer (1) More than Olympus (Moderato quasi andante) (2) White as the rugged cliffs (Allegro non troppo) (3) Ever changing, ever new (Lento) (4) Here while on humble earth (Moderato) Commissioned by: The 1998 Beaumaris Festival in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “for Jeremy Huw Williams” Duration: 15’ First performance: Beaumaris, Leisure Centre, 28 May 1998 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and the Archinto String Quartet Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 1999 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: Classical Music, no. 606 (9 May 1998), 9 (Anon.) CELEBRATION DANCES (Opus 169) For orchestra In five movements in which following Welsh dance and folktunes are used: Pibddawns y Mwmbwls [The Mumbles Hornpipe] (Allegro) Morgiana yng Nghymru [Morgiana in Wales] (Andante) Ril Ardalyddes Lansdown [The Marquess of Lansdown’s Reel] (Presto) Trymder [Heaviness] (Andante) Pe cawn I hon [If I Could Have Her]/Modryb Neli [Aunt Nelli] (Allegro e vivace) Commissioned by: The Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan Youth Orchestra in association with the Arts Council of Wales to celebrate 50 years of Welsh medium education in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.2+1.1/timpani/percussion(5)/harp/strings Dedication: “for Eric Phillips and the Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan Orchestra” Duration: 14’ First performance: Cardiff, City Hall, 31 March 1999 Cardiff County and Vale of Glamorgan Youth Orchestra, conducted by Eric Phillips

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Publication: Oriana Publications. Full score © 1999 Manuscript: the composer 1999 TOWER (Opus 170) Opera in three acts with libretto by John Owen Commissioned by: Opera Box in association with Swansea Grand Theatre, and sponsored by The Western Mail. Act one: Scene 1 Tyrone’s office (Quick) Scene 2 Tyrone’s office (with movement) Scene 3 Manager’s office (Quick) Scene 4 Supermarket (Lively) Scene 5 Pithead baths (Fairly quick) Scene 6 Susan and Colin’s home (Very fast) Scene 7 Miners’ club (Fast) Act two: Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7 Scene 8 Act three: Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6

Coalface (Quick) Coalface – pit bottom (Quietly, with movement) Pithead (Quick) Pithead (Slow) Miners’ march to London (Quick) Miners’ march to London (Agitated) Whitehall offices (Slow) Whitehall offices (Agitated)

Workingmen’s club (Lively) Pit manager’s office (Quick) Whitehall offices (Measured) Christmas scene – children singing carols … (With movement) Tyrone’s office (Quick) Sounds of miners marching in the distance – everybody comes together in celebration (Quick)

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Duration: c.120’ First performance: Swansea, Grand Theatre, 23 October 1999 Cast: Tyrone: union representative (bass) Robert Lloyd Colin: miner (tenor) Mark Luther Emrys: the pit manager (baritone) Jeremy Huw Williams Elaine: Tyrone’s wife (soprano) Bridgett Gill Susan: Colin’s wife (soprano) Alison Charlton-West Ann: Ann Clwyd, MP (mezzo soprano) Ann Atkinson Glyn: retired miner (baritone) David Marsh David: a manager A civil servant (tenor)

Huw Priddy

Miner 1 Journalist 1 Civil Servant 1(tenor)

Philip Creasy

Miner 2 Journalist Civil Servant (tenor)

Neville Ackerman

Gerwyn: a manager Miner 3 Journalist 3 Minister (baritone)

Gwion Thomas

Young miner (tenor)

Gareth Davies

Chorus

Stephanie Crooks Gareth Davies Alan Rankin Crooks Aris Nadirian Kevin Sharp

Male Chorus: The Black Mountain Male Chorus (director: Tim Rhys Evans) The Cambrian Male Choir (director: Bryan Myles) Children’s Chorus and children’s roles: Ysgol Gymraeg, Pontardawe Bishop Gore School, Sketty

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National Chamber Orchestra of Wales with Nicholas Bosworth and Sharon Williams (pianos), John Metcalf (keyboard), Cliff Prior, Andy Cookson, Phil Gurling and Graham Bardley (percussion), conducted by Fraser Goulding Designer: Russell Craig Lighting Design: Chris Barrett and Mark Satchel Director: Brendan Wheatley Unpublished Manuscript: the composer, including the vocal score Bibliography: Opera, 51 (January 2000), 111–112 (M. Dreyer); The South Wales Echo, 20 October 1999, 19 (J. Longhurst); The South Wales Echo, 21 October 1999, 19 (S. Edwards); The Times, 25 October 1999, 43; The Western Mail, October 1999, 5 (K. Price) and (N. Speed) FIVE BAGATELLES (Opus 150b) For wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon) (1) Moderato (2) Presto (3) Adagio (4) Moderato (5) Allegro Commissioned by: The 1999 Fishguard International Music Festival with funds from the Welsh Arts Council Duration: 14’ First performance: Goodwick, Parish Church of St. Peter, 27 July 1999 The Belfast Wind Quintet Publication: Oriana Publications. Full score © 1999 Manuscript: the composer TO THE POET (Opus 171) Six poems by Alexander Pushkin for baritone and piano (1) Elegy (Moderato) [3’09”] (2) The Cloud (Andantino) [2’29”] (3) Gift of Life so useless (Adagio) [2’27”] (4) To the Poet (Allegro) [1’26”]

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(5) The Flower (Moderato) [1’52”] (6) To Anna Kern (Allegro) [2’15”] Commissioned by: The British Pushkin Bicentennial Trust First performance: Monmouth, Wyastone Leys: the Concert Hall of the Nimbus Foundation, 25 August 1999 Neal Davies (bass-baritone) and Julian Milford (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 1999 Manuscript: the composer Recordings: SAIN SCD 2484 SYMPHONY No. 10 (Opus 172) For orchestra In four movements (1) Moderato (2) Presto (3) Adagio (4) Allegro Commissioned by: The 1999 North Wales International Music Festival in association with the Arts Council of Wales 2.2.2.2/4.2.2+1.0/timpani/percussion(2)/strings Duration: 30’ First performance: St. Asaph, Cathedral Church of St. Asaph, 25 September 1999 The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Tadaaki Otaka Publication: Oriana Publications. Full score © 1999 Manuscript: the composer Bibliography: Classical Music, no. 641, (18 September 1999), 12 (Anon.) 2000 LA SERENISSIMA (Opus 173) Songs for baritone and piano There is a city on the sea (Rogers) Moderato [2’30”] The wildest visions (Dickens) Presto [1’54”] Dids’t ever see a gondola? (Byron) Moderato [2’25”] Voli l’agile barchetta (Pepoli) Andante [2’10”] In the still canals (Crawford) Moderato [2’12”]

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Commissioned by: Jeremy Huw Williams First performance: London, European Academy of the Arts (Grosvenor Place), 22 March 2000 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano) First performance in Wales: St. Donat’s, Bradestoke Hall, 11 September 2000 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score [n.d.]: a facsimile of the composer’s score Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recording: SAIN SCD 2266 Bibliography: The Western Mail, 22 March 2000, 12 (K. Price) DOUBLES (Opus 174) Quintet for oboe, piano and string trio Presto-Allegro-Adagio-Allegro Commissioned by: Alun Darbyshire Duration: 20’ First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 20 June 2000 The Ovid Ensemble Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2000 Manuscript: the composer CONCERTO FOR SOLO PERCUSSION AND BRASS BAND (Opus 175) In five movements (1) Allegro (2) Andante (3) Presto (4) Adagio (5) Vivo Commissioned by: The Welsh Amateur Music Federation for the National Youth Brass Band of Wales in association with the Welsh Arts Council Soprano cornet in Eb, 3 solo cornets in Bb, 3 repiano cornets in Bb, flugelhorn in Bb, solo horn in Eb, 2 horns in Eb, 2 baritones in Bb, 2 trombones in Bb, bass trombone, euphonium in Bb, 2 bass in Eb, solo percussion, 3 percussion

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Duration: 20’ First performance: Fishguard, School Concert Hall, 28 July 2000 Austen Beattie (percussion) and the National Youth Brass Band of Wales, conducted by James Watson First London performance: Croydon, Fairfield Hall, 18 March 2001 Owain Gunnel (percussion) and the National Youth Brass Band of Wales with Royal Academy of Music Brass, conducted by James Watson Publication: Oriana Publications Manuscript: the composer SONATA No. 13 FOR PIANO (Opus 176) Presto-Andante-Quasi moderato-Andante-Presto-Quasi moderato-Andante; -Quasi moderato-Presto-Andante Commissioned by: The 2001 North Wales International Music Festival in association with the Welsh Arts Council Dedication: “for Gordon Fergus-Thompson” Duration: c.20’ First performance: St. Asaph, Cathedral Church of St. Asaph, 29 September 2001 Gordon Fergus-Thompson (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2001 Manuscript: the composer 2001 QUARTET No.5 FOR STRINGS (Opus 177) Presto Andante-Quasi moderato-Andante Presto Quasi moderato-Andante-Quasi moderato Presto-Andante Dedication: 20’ First performance: Aberystwyth, Joseph Parry Hall, 26 March 2001 The Archinto String Quartet Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2001 Manuscript: the composer

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DREAM WANDERER (Opus 178) Trio for horn, violin and piano (1) Andante-Presto (2) Andantino-Allegro-Andantino Commissioned by: Bridget and Peter Gledhill in memory of Owen Gledhill Dedication: “in memory of Owen Gledhill” Duration: c.15’ First performance: St. Asaph, St. Asaph’s Cathedral, 22 September 2003 The Northern Horn Trio Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2003 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Bibliography: Classical Music, no. 744 (11 September 2003), 11 (R. Agnew) BAGATELLES (Opus 179) For eleven instruments Moderato Presto Adagio Andantino Vivo 2 flutes, oboe, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, 3 horns and trumpet Commissioned by: BASBWE Education Trust Duration: 20’ First performance: London, Purcell Room, 26 November 2001 The Royal College of Music Wind Ensemble Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2001 Manuscript: the composer “the sunne rising” [John Donne]: CONCERTO FOR EUPHONIUM AND ORCHESTRA (Opus 180) Six sections (played without a break): Andante misterioso; Presto; Andante; Allegretto; Andante (cadenza); Vivo Commissioned by: David Childs in association with the Arts Council of Wales and the Welsh Amateur Music Federation

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2+1.2.2.2/4.3.3.0/timpani/percussion(2)/harp/strings Dedication: “for David Childs” Duration: 22’30” First performance: Porthcawl, Grand Pavillion, 13 July 2002 David Childs (euphonium) and the Sinfonia Cymru, conducted by Gareth Jones First London performance: Royal Albert Hall, 2 September 2004 David Childs (euphonium) and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Grant Llewellyn Publication: Oriana Publications. Full score © 2002; Piano reduction © 2003 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown OTHER VERSION Arrangement for solo euphonium and wind orchestra by Denis Wick Piccolo and 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, clarinet in Eb, 3 clarinets in Bb, bass clarinet in Bb, contra clarinet in Eb, 2 baritones, 3 basses, 2 alto saxophones, tenor saxophone, bass saxophone, 3 trumpets in Bb, 4 horns in F, 2 trombones, bass trimbone, euphonium, tubas, timpani, harp, glockenspiel, vibraphone and percussion First performance; Cheltenham, the Town Hall, 5 July 2004 David Childs (euphonium) and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra, conducted by John Reynolds Publication: Denis Wick Publications. Score © 2003 2002 THREE WELSH FOLKSONGS Arranged for cello and piano (1) Moderato (2) Andante (3) Allegro Dedication: “For Kathryn Price, who gave the first performance at the Wigmore Hall on 1 March 2002” Duration: 8’

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First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 1 March 2002 Kathryn Price (cello) and Douglas Ashcroft (piano) First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 27 February 2002 Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2002 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Y SAITH CYSGADUR [Once a Farmer and his Wife] Welsh folk song arranged for baritone and piano Duration: 1’13” First performance: unable to trace Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 2004 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recordings: SAIN SCD 2318 LIZARD (Opus 181) Concerto for orchestra Inspired by a poem “Lizard” by Gwyn Thomas [which is printed in the full score] Commissioned by: The BBC 3+1.2+1.2+1.2+1/4.3.2+1.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Duration: 25’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 30 October 2003 The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Tadaaki Otaka First broadcast performance: BBC Radio 3, 9 November 2003 (a recording of the first performance) Publication: Oriana Publiactions. Full score © 2003 Manuscript: the composer 2003 LEAPFROG Bagatelle for piano Commissioned by: ABRSM Duration: 0’34” First performance: unable to trace Publication: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) © 2005 (in Spectrum 4: an international collection of 60 miniatures for solo piano, compiled by Thalia Myers)

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Manuscript: dated “Swansea, Janury 2003” Recordings: USK 1227CDD SONATA FOR EUPHONIUM (in Bb) AND PIANO (Opus 182) In two movements (1) Andante (2) Allegro Commissioned by: David Childs Duration: c.10’ First performance: London, Wigmore Hall, 7 April 2003 David Childs (euphonium) and John Wilson (piano) Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2003 Manuscript: the composer 2004 PROMONTORY OF DREAMS (Opus 183) Serenade for baritone, horn and string orchestra Text: Trevor Fishlock (1) Promontory of Dreams (Andante) (2) Lifeboatmen’s Memorial at Port Eynon (Allegro) (3) Saint Cenydd (Andante) (4) Brandy Cove (Vivo) (5) Marsh Horses (Andante) (6) Paviland Man (Allegro) Commissioned by: The Welsh Chamber Orchestra supported with funds from The Arts Council of Wales and the PRS Foundation Duration: 35’ First performance: Wrexham, Newi William Aston Hall, 6 March 2004 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and the Welsh Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Hose Publication: Oriana Publications. Score © 2004 Manuscript: the composer BADGER IN THE BAG [Broch Ynghod] (Opus 184) Overture for orchestra based on a story from the Mabinogion

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Commissioned by: BBC Wales 3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timpani/percussion(3)/harp/strings Duration: 6’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 1 March 2004 The BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes Unpublished Manuscript: the composer CONCERTO FOR TROMBONE AND ORCHESTRA (Opus 185) In two movements (1) Allegro-Presto (2) Largo-Vivo Commissioned by: Mark Eager 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.1/percussion(2)/strings Duration: 25’ First performance: Brecon, Theatr Brycheiniog, 28 May 2004 Mark Eager (trombone) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Grant Llewellyn Publication: Oriana Publications. Piano reduction © 2004 Manuscript: the composer BAGATELLES FOR FOUR TROMBONES (Opus 186) (1) Vivace (2) Presto (3) Andante (4) Vivo Duration: unable to trace First performance: New York, June 2004 First UK performance: unable to trace Publication: Denis Wick Publications. Score © 2004 Manuscript: whereabouts unknown CONCERTO GROSSO (Opus 187) For brass band Maestoso-Allegro-Maestoso, leading to Vivo-Andante-Presto

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Cornets, horns, baritones, trombones, euphoniums, timpani and percussion with solo instruments: 2 trumpets, trombone and euphonium Commissioned to celebrate the composer’s 75th birthday for the National Youth Brass Band of Wales by the Welsh Amateur Music Federation with additional funding from the Arts Council of Wales and the PRS Federation Duration: c.16’ First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 23 July 2004 The National Youth Brass Band of Wales, conducted by Robert Childs Repeated on the evening of 23 July 2004 at the Fishguard Festival National Youth Brass Band of Wales, conducted by Robert Childs Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown CELEBRATION For string quartet in four movments Vivace Andante Con brio Vivace Commissioned by: The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to be played at its 2004 Annual Dinner Duration: c.10’ First performance: London, Nuffield Hall (RCOG Building) Sussex Place (Regent’s Park), 25 November 2004 Four female students from the Royal Academy of Music, lead by Naoko Miyamoto Unpublished Manuscript: RCOG, London SONATA FOR PIANO DUET (Opus 188) In four movments (1) Moderato (2) Presto (3) Adagio (4) Con brio

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Commissioned by: Harvey Davies First peformance: Bangor, Powys Hall (UC, North Wales), 2 December 2004 Harvey and Helen Davies (piano) Unpublished Manuscript: whereabouts unknown 2005 SEVEN FOLK SONGS Arranged for baritone and harp (1) Ap Sièncyn (Allegro) (2) Tra Bo Dau [Two hearts remain] (Allegretto) (3) Ym Mnontypridd [In Pontypridd] (Andante) (4) Mentra Gwen [Fairest Gwen] (Allegretto) (5) Ffarwel fo I Langyfelach lon [Farewell to fair Langyfelach] (Moderato) (6) Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn [The Golden Wheat] (Andante) (7) Dadl Dau [The Lazy Wife] (Allegro) First performance: Caernarfon, Galeri, 20 June 2005 Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Catrin Finch (harp) Publication: Oriana Publications. Vocal score © 2005 (as Saith O Caneuon Werin): arrangements for baritone and piano Manuscript: whereabouts unknown Recordings: SAIN SCD 2484 CELEBRATION TRIBUTE For His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall on the occasion of their Marriage, Windsor, 9 April 2005 2 trumpets/3 first violins and 2 second violins/viola/cello/double bass/organ Duration: 1’05” First performance: Windsor, St. George’s Chapel, 9 April 2005 Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Warren-Green with Roger Judd (organ) Unpublished Manuscript: The Prince of Wales

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REVISED VERSION Revised and extended by the composer for inclusion in the compact disc Music for a Royal Celebration, issued by the Prince’s Trust 2 oboes/2 horns/2 trumpets/timpani/strings/organ Duration: 1’10” Unpublished Recordings: QTZ 2041 IMAGES OF VENICE (Opus 189) For soprano and baritone soli and orchestra Texts: Percy B. Shelley (1792–1822), Henry W. Longfellow (1807–1882), John Ruskin (1819–1900), Charles Dickens (1812–1870), George Sand (1804–1876), Lord Byron (1788–1824), F.M. Crawford (1854–1909) and Henry James (1843–1916) Commissioned by: Helen Field 3.3.3.3/4.2.3.0/timp/perc(2)/harp/strings Duration: 24’50” First performance: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall, 1 March 2007 Helen Field (soprano), Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Jac Van Steen

General bibliography

Adams, K. “Welsh Orchestral Music, 1945–1970”, Dissertation submitted in part requirement for the degree of PhD. University of Wales, Dept of Music, UCW (Aberystwyth), 1980 Anon. “A Guide to the Music of Welsh Composer Alun Hoddinott”, Music Teacher, 83, No.11 (2004), 25 Anon. “Alun Hoddinott”, Hi-Fi News and Record Review, (May 1973), 967 Anon. “Alun Hoddinott – 60th Birthday Year”, Music and Musicians, March 1989), 50 Anon. “Interview (60th birthday): Alun Hoddinott”, The Times, 30 June 1989, 16 Anon. [“Opera for Concert Garden”] The Sunday Times, 28 May 1978, 35 Anon. “Profile: Alun Hoddinott”, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 2 September 1977, 7 Anon. “The Record and Music Scene”, HiFi News and Record Review, 18 (May 1973), 967 Anon. “Writing Opera on Honore de Balzac”, The Sunday Times, 28 May 1978, 35 Basini, M. “Mr. Music”, The Western Mail Magazine, 13 February 2004, 11 Bowen James, B., etc. “Alun Hoddinott”, in First in the World; The Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1995, 27, 48, 62, 66, 70, 73, 74, 78, 79, 80, 81, 84 Boyd, M. “Alun Hoddinott”, in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (The New Grove) London, Macmil1an, 1980, volume 8, 609–610 Campbell, T. “The music maker”, The Western Mail, 13 August 1987, 14 Charnell-White, M.J. “The Choral Music of Alun Hoddinott”, Welsh Music 6 (Winter 1979/80), 27–32 203

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Chissell, J. “Alun Hoddinott: Queen Elizabeth Hall”, The Times, 11 October 1972, 11 Chissell, J. “Three Contemporary Composers”, Radio Times, 18 September 1953, 27 Clark, S.J. “The choral music of Alun Hoddinott: an analysis and related conclusions concerning performance”. Treatise in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1977 Cole, D. The New Wales, Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 1990 Craggs, S.R. Alun Hoddinott: A Bio-Bibliography, Westport (CT), Greenwood Press, 1993 Curzon, J. “Young music of great men”, The Western Mail, 19 September 1979, 4 Davies, L. “Alun Hoddinott (1929– )”, Cardiff, Welsh Music Information Centre, [2005] (Composers of Wales Monographs) Davies, L. “The music of Alun Hoddinott”, Planet, No.78 (December 1989–January 1990), 84–91 Davies, L. “Y Cyfansoddwr Ewro-Celtaidd”, [The Euro-Celtic Composer] Barn [Opinions], No. 329 (June 1990), 34–37 Davies, M. “Happy Birthday Alun Hoddinott”, The Western Mail: Welsh Style, No.l6 (August 1989), 2528 Deane, B. “Alun Hoddinott”, Cardiff, Welsh Arts Council (on behalf of the Welsh Arts Council), 1978 Deane, B. “Alun Hoddinott: The Seventies and After”, Soundings, No. 8 (1979/1980), 6–12 Dreyer, M. “Opera on the Fringe”, Opera, 51 (January 2000), 111–112 Duckenfield, M. “The hills are alive with a one-man industry”, The Times Higher Education Supplement, 2 September 1977, 7 Edwards, J. “The Music of Alun Hoddinott”, The South Wales Evening Post, 7 October 1950, 3 Edwards, J. “Oxford Press publishes Hoddinott music”, The South Wales Evening Post, 25 June 1954, 16 Ford, C. “Composer in residence”, The Guardian, 2 May 1972, 10 Gingell, J. “Piper strikes the right note for harmony of arts”, The Western Mail, 27 February 1978, 2 Greenfield, E. “Master of the Principality’s Music”, The Guardian, 27 February 1969, 8 Griffiths, P. “Welshman”, Musical Times, 120 (March 1979), 219 Hannah, P. “Masters and moderns”, Radio Times (Wales), 21–27 October 1989, 93

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Haskell, H. “Welsh composer uses simple techniques, classic inspirations”, The Kansas City Star, 10 April 1983, 8F Haydon, C. “Star-studded festival run on a shoestring”, The Western Music, 23 February 1976, 4 Helm, E. “Cardiff: Festival der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts”, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, 131 (June 1970), 289–290 Hesford, B. “The piano works of Alun Hoddinott”, Musical Opinion, 89 (1965–66), 411, 413 Heward Rees, A.J. “Roots and Realisations”, Welsh Music, 7 (Spring 1983), 7–20 Hill, D. “Barry Tuckwell: Catalyst for New Music for Horn”, The Horn Call, 27 No.7 (1997), 35 Hoddinott, A. “The achievement of Alan Rawsthorne”, The Listener, LXXIII (3 June 1965), 839 Hoddinott, A. “An affirmation of faith”, The Western Mail, 26 May 1962, 5 Hoddinott A. “An Australian composer in Wales”, The Western Mail, 26 November 1966, 8 Hoddinott, A. “Birthday book a fine tribute to Tippett”, The Western Mail, 31 March 1965, 7 Hoddinott, A. “Brilliant cello soloist”, The Western Mail, 2 July 1966, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Charming riddles on a small scale”, The Western Mail, 29 August 1964, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Christmas is icumen in”, The Western Mail, 18 October 1963, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Complete with garret”, The Western Mail, 14 August 1964, III Hoddinott, A. “Composer of distinction”, The Western Mail, 21 September 1963, 5 Hoddinott, A. “A composer of many contrasts”, The Western Mail, 6 January 1965, 4 Hoddinott, A. “Composer’s forum”, London Musical Events, 13 (August 1958), 25–26 Hoddinott, A. “Composer’s forum”, Musical Events, 22 (May 1967), 10–11 Hoddinott, A. “A composer’s role in Russia”, The Western Mail, 20 August 1960, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Composing a children’s opera”, Music Teacher, 56 (July 1977), 15–16 Hoddinott, A. “Concerto makes its bow”, The Western Mail, 10 July 1965, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Conductors and Conducting”, The Western Mail, 4 May 1963, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Deep symphony”, The Western Mail, 5 November 1966, 4

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Hoddinott, A. ‘For players to enjoy, too”, The Western Mail, 19 November 1966, 4 Hoddinott, A. “The forgotten composer”, The Western Mail, 19 January 1963, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Frightening the minnows”, The Western Mail, 27 March 1965, 8 Hoddinott, A. “Full-blooded Hymn to Apollo opens Festival”, The Western Mail, 7 July 1965, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Gordon Jacob at 70”, The South Wales Argus, 27 July 1965, 2 Hoddinott, A. “Great triumph for Covent Garden”, The Western Mail, 9 July 1965, 7 Hoddinott, A. “Hand of a master craftsman”, The Western Mail, 5 August 1965, 4 Hoddinott, A. “History of a pianist”, The Western Mail, 21 January 1965, 6 Hoddinott, A. “Humphrey Searle’s individual world”, The South Wales Argus, 18, November 1965, 2 Hoddinott, A. “In memory of the bard”, The Western Mail, 21 March 1964, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Inauguration and Policy – The Early Years”, in Stowell, R.(ed.) The Cardiff Festival of Music–20 years, Cardiff, The Cardiff Festival of Music Ltd., 1986, 1–6 Hoddinott, A. “John Ogdon’s first works”, The Western Mail, 12 May 1965, 11 Hoddinott, A. “Keen sensitivity to colour”, The Western Mail, 1 February 1964, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Magnetism of a great musician”, The Western Mail, 31 July 1971, 8 Hoddinott, A. “Most memorable magic of cellist Rostropovich”, The Western Mail, 20 July 1965, 7 Hoddinott,.A. “Music and Musicians –Arthur Benjamin”, The Western Mail, 14 May 1960, 5 Hoddinott, A. “’Music in schools: no health in us”, The Times Educational Supplement, 1 February 1963, 177. Reprinted in: Welsh Music, 2 (Spring 1963), 10–12 Hoddinott, A. “A new anthem for Britten”, The Western Mail, 23 October 1965, 6 Hoddinott, A. “The new English music”, The Western Mail, 7 May 1966, 8 Hoddinott, A. “A new work that is quite old”, The Western Mail, 27 November 1965, 6 Hoddinott, A. “The operas of Leos Janacek”, The Western Mail, 12 September 1964, 6

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Hoddinott, A. “Oratorio’s progress out of opera”, The Western Mail, 20 March 1963, 5. Hoddinott, A. “Our magnificent musician”, The Western Mail, 13 November 1964, 6 Hoddinott, A. “Personal View: Music in Wales”, Amgueddfa: Bulletin of the National Museum of Wales, 4 (Spring 1970), 20–23 Hoddinott, A. “Peter Racine Fricker”, Music and Musicians, 18 No.12 (1970), 30–32, 34 Hoddinott, A. “Pillar of the eistedfodd”, The Guardian, 29 September 1988, 39 Hoddinott, A. [Phyllis Tate] in Various contributors [“Phyllis Tate”] Oxford, Oxford University Press, [1987] Hoddinott, A. “Quest for orchestral colour”, The Western Mail, 24 July 1971, 7 Hoddinott, A. “Rawsthorne at 60”, Musical Times, 106 (May 1965), 346–347 Hoddinott, A. “Rawsthorne – composer with a personal idiom”, The Western Mail, 5 May 1965, 8 Hoddinott, A. “Rawsthorne concertos”, The Listener, LXXV (31 March 1966), 484 Hoddinott, A. “Rawsthorne’s Cello Concerto”, Tempo, No. 77 (Summer 1966), 18–19 Hoddinott, A. “Rescued from scrap yard”, The Western Mail, 30 November 1963, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Rich in colour and invention”, The Western Mail, 7 August, 7 Hoddinott, A. “Rich romantic harmonies”, The Western Mail, 25 January 1964, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Skill and originality of Grace Williams”, The Western Mail, 19 May 1965, 8 Hoddinott, A. “A striking new work”, The Western Mail, 15 July 1965, 7 Hoddinott, A. “A superficial look at opera”, The Western Mail (Literary Review), 12 September 1964, 3 Hoddinott, A. “Tackling the off-beat”, The Western Mail, 12 February 1966, 6 Hoddinott, A. “Test of a composer’s strength”, The Western Mail, 27 August 1960, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Tribute to Michael Tippett”, in Lewis, G. (ed.) Michael Tippett: a celebration, Tunbridge Wells, The Baton Press, 1985 Hoddinott, A, “Tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams”, Musical Times, 99 (October 1958), 539 Hoddinott, A. “The true composer and the message of his work”, The Western Mail, 30 April 1960, 5

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Hoddinott, A. “Two great departures”, The Western Mail, 4 January 1964, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Vaughan Williams reassessed”, The Western Mail, 27 September 1963, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Verdi Requiem at Royal Festival Hall”, The Western Mail, 7 December 1964, 4 Hoddinott, A. “Virtuosity backed by stamina”, The Western Mail, 12 July 1965, 7 Hoddinott, A. “Walton’s style analysed”, The Western Mail, 11 August 1965, 4 Hoddinott, A. “Welcome Janacek revival”, The Western Mail, 10 May 1965, 7 Hoddinott, A. “Whettam symphony romantic”, The Western Mail, 26 February 1965, 4 Hoddinott, A. “Works that will endure”, The Western Mail, 15 December 1962, 5 Hoddinott, A. “Writing for Children”, The Western Mail, 27 January 1965, 6 Hoddinott, R. “On being the wife of Alun Hoddinott”, Y Faner, 19 December 1980, 14 Holland, A.K. “Welsh-speaking and proud of it!”, The Liverpool Daily Post (Friday Supplement), No.25 (29 July I960), 3 Joseph, J. “Radio and Television”, Music and Musicians, 27 (November 1978), 47–49 Levi, P. “Just how much is a composer worth?”, The Sunday Times, 6 March 1977, 35 Lewis, G. “Alun Hoddinott”, in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (The New Grove), London, Macmillian, 2nd edn, 2001, volume 11, 570–573 Lewis, G. “Hoddinott and the Symphony”, Musical Times, 130 (August 1989), 455–459 Lewis, G. “Hoddinott at 60”, Music and Musicians International, 37 (April 1989), 16–19 Lewis, G. “The Limit of a Vast Empire: Some of Hoddinott’s Recent Music”, Welsh Music, 9, No.1 (Winter 1989–90), 6–16 Lewis, G. “Alun Hoddinott”, in Cole, D. (ed.) Praise the Lord! We are a Musical Nation, Cardiff, [University of Wales Press], 1990, 123–140 Loveland, K. “Alun Hoddinott at 60”, Musical Opinion, 112 (August 1989), 261 Loveland, K. “Cardiff Festival”, The Times, 23 March 1971, 20 Loveland, K. “Hoddinott leaves University College, Cardiff” Music and Music International, October 1987, 6 Loveland, K. “Music: Alun Hoddinott”, South Wales, Spring 1970, 32–35

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Loveland, K. “Wales: Praise God, we are a musical nation”, Music and Musicians, 15 (February 1967), 36–37 Loveland, K. “Wales on the International Music Scene”, Radio Times, 30 January 1969, 32 Loveland, K. “A Year of Rich Promise for a Welsh composer”, Music and Musicians, 8 (February 1960), 9, 37 McCutchan, A. “Welsh composer laments TV popularity”, The AustinAmerican Statesman, October 1986, C9 Mason, E. “Counterpoint: Chaired”, Music and Musicians, 15 (May 1967), 37 Mason, E. “Counterpoint: Lessons after School”, Music and Musicians, 11 (July 1963), 41 Matthew-Walker, R. “Alun Hoddinott”, Music and Musicians, 26 (January 1978), 28–32 Matthew-Walker, R. “Alun Hoddinott at 70”, Musical Opinion, 122 (Summer 1999), 197–198 Matthew-Walker, R. “Alun Hoddinott on Record”, St. Austell, DGR Books, [1993] Matthew-Walker, R. Composers of our time: Alun Hoddinott”, Records and Recordings, 23 (May 1980), 23–26 Matthew-Walker, R. “Hoddinott at 50”, Music and Musicians, 27 (August 1979), 8–9 Matthew-Walker, R. “Hoddinott’s Programmatic Structuralization”, Tempo, No.209 (July 1999), 22–25 Matthew-Walker, R. “Music in time: an assessment of Alun Hoddinott’s Piano Sonatas”, Musical Opinion, 116 (October 1993), 313 Matthew-Walker, R. “The recent music of Alun Hoddinott”, University College Cardiff Press Newsletter, January 1986 Neville, S. “Composer Alun is still at helm of his brainchild”, The Western Mail, 18 November 1986, 12 Oliver, M. “Two Welsh Composers: Alun Hoddinott and William Mathias”, in Foreman, L. (ed.), ‘British Music Now.”, London, Paul Elek, 1975, 86–96 Painter, C. “Alun Hoddinott : a 70th birthday tribute”, Welsh Music, 10 No.3 (Autumn 1999), 4–5 Payne, F. “Weekly Kentucky-State Festivities to honor Welsh Composer” The Manhattan Mercury, 3 April 1983, D8 Payne, F. “Welsh character flavours music”, The Manhattan Mercury, 10 April 1983, D8 Piper, M. “Set to Music: Notes on Working with Britten and Hoddinott” Welsh Music, 7 No.7 (Summer 1984), 13–17

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Pirie, P. J. “Music Reviews: Hoddinott’s Progress”, Musical Times, 109 (May 1968), 461 Price, K. “Here alone, no music is to be heard”, The Western Mail, 11 November 2000, 3 Rees, C. B. “Impressions: Alun Hoddinott”, London Musical Events, 13 (December 1958), 14–15 Rees, M. “Looking back at a Lifetime in Music”, South Wales Evening Post, 30 October 2004, 28–29 Reynolds, P. “Alun Hoddinott at 75”, Planet, No.166 (August/September 2004), 16–22 Rutland, H. “BBC Symphony Orchestra goes to Wales”, Radio Times, 23 November 1951, 11 Scanlan, R. “Alun Hoddinott: His Vocal Music”, The NATS Bulletin, 35 (May/June 1979), 42–45 Sicluna, A.J. “Welsh music-a growing export”, The South Wales Echo, 17 December 1976, 5 Stephens, M. (ed.) “Alun Hoddinott” in The Arts in Wales 1950–75, Cardiff, Welsh Arts Council, 1979, 42–43 Stewart, M. “A Little Night Music”, Gramophone, 68 (January 1991), 1345 Stowell, R. The Cardiff Festival of Music–20 years, Cardiff, The Cardiff Festival of Music Ltd., 1986 T., D.A. “Yr Oriel: Dr Alun Hoddinott”, Tywysydd Y Plant, 9 (August 1962), 98–101 Thomas, A. P. Leighton. “Alun Hoddinott”, Musical Times, 96 (October 1955), 523–525 Thomas, A. F. Leighton. “Random notes on contemporary Welsh Music”, The Chesterian, 31 (Spring 1957), 115–119 Thorne, M. “Gramophone: Alun Hoddinott”, Hi-Fi News and Record Review, 22 (June 1977), 103, 105 Trenberth, S. “Alun Hoddinott” in Welsh Greats of Today, Stroud, Alan Sutton, 1993, 35 Warnaby, J. “Sound of silence in new Welsh music”, The Western Mail, 19 October 1990, 16 Watkin, J. “A life full of highlights for composer Alun Hoddinott”, The Daily Mercury (Canada), 26 October 1982, 5 Widdicombe, G. “Playing to win”, Radio Times, 17–23 April 1982, 12–13 Wynne, D. “Alun Hoddinott”, The Anglo-Welsh Review, 13 (1965), 44–55 Wynne, D. “Alun Hoddinott: A Survey”, Welsh Music, 3 (Winter 1970), 2–12

Classified index of works

Chamber and solo instrumental Arabesque for violin and piano (1966) Bagatelles for eleven instruments (Opus 179) Bagatelles for four trombones (Opus 186) Bagatelles for oboe and harp (Opus 112) Birthday Greetings for Paul Patterson’s 40th Birthday (1987) Celebration for string quartet (2004) Dark March for piano (1995) Divertimenti (Opus 118) Divertimenti for eight instruments (Opus 58) Divertimento for oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (Opus 32) Doubles for oboe, piano and string trio (Opus 174) Dream Wanderer: trio for horn, violin and piano (Opus 178) Fantasy for harp (Opus 68 No. 2) Festivo: music for a celebration (1996) Impromptu for harp (1955) Improvisations for clarinet and piano (1956) Intrada for organ (Opus 37 No. 2) Island of Dragons (Opus 166, No. 1) Italian Suite (Opus 92) Leapfrog for piano (2003) Little Suite (1987–88) Lizard for piano (1997) Lizard: variants for recorder (Opus 166 No. 2) Masks (Opus 109) Miniatures (1947) 211

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Nocturne for clarinet, violin and piano (1952) Nocturne No. 1 for piano (Opus 9) Nocturne No. 2 for piano (Opus 16 No. 1) Nocturnes and Cadenzas for cello (Opus 101a) Nocturnes and Cadenzas for clarinet, violin and cello (Opus 53) Nocturnes and Cadenzas for flute (Opus 101b) Nocturnes and Cadenzas for harp (Opus 68 No. 1) Novelette for flute, oboe and piano (Opus 139) Passacaglia and Fugue for organ (Opus 122) Phantasy String Quartet (1947) Prelude for two violas (1948) Prelude and Fugue for string trio (1948) Quartet for clarinet, violin, viola and piano (Opus 6) Quartet for Strings (1946) Quartet No. 1 for Strings (Opus 43) Quartet No. 2 for Strings (Opus 113) Quartet No. 3 for Strings (Opus 130) Quartet No. 4 for Strings (Opus 160) Quartet No. 5 for Strings (Opus 177) Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (Opus 146) Quintet for 2 violins, viola, cello and piano (Opus 78 No. 4) Ritornelli for trombone, wind and percussion (Opus 85) Ritornelli 3 for four double basses (Opus 104) Ritornelli 3 for string quartet (1991) Rondo Capriccioso for tenor trombone and piano (Opus 12 No. 2) Rondo Scherzo for piano (Opus 25 No. 1) Rondo Scherzo for trumpet and piano (Opus 2 No. 1) Sarum Fanfare for organ (Opus 37 No. 3) Scena for string quartet (Opus 100 No. 1) Septet (Opus 10) Sextet (Opus 20) Six Bagatelles for violin, 2 violas and cello (Opus 150) Six Bagatelles in the form of diversions on five notes for string quartet (1948) Sonata for cello and piano (Opus 73 No. 2) Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano (Opus 96 No. 1) Sonata No. 3 for cello and piano (Opus 159) Sonata for clarinet and piano (Opus 50) Sonata No. 2 for clarinet and piano (Opus 162) Sonata for euphonium and piano (Opus 182) Sonata for flute and piano (Opus 140)

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Sonata for four clarinets (Opus 104 No. 2a) Sonata for four saxophones (Opus 104 No. 2b) Sonata for harp (Opus 36) Sonata for horn and piano (Opus 78 No. 2) Sonata for oboe and harp (Opus 157) Sonata for organ (Opus 96 No. 2) Sonata No. 1 for piano (Opus 17) Sonata No. 2 for piano (Opus 27) Sonata No. 3 for piano (Opus 40) Sonata No. 4 for piano (Opus 49) Sonata No. 5 for piano (Opus 57) Sonata No. 6 for piano (Opus 78 No. 3) Sonata No. 7 for piano (Opus 114) Sonata No. 8 for piano (Opus 125) Sonata No. 9 for piano (Opus 134) Sonata No. 10 for piano (Opus 136) Sonata No. 11 for piano (Opus 147) Sonata No. 12 for piano (Opus 149) Sonata No. 13 for piano (Opus 176) Sonata for piano duet (Opus 188) Sonata for two pianos (Opus 120) Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (Opus 63) Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (Opus 73 No. 1) Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano (Opus 78 No. 1) Sonata No. 4 for violin and piano (Opus 89) Sonata No. 5 for violin and piano (Opus 141) Sonata No. 6 for violin and piano (Opus 163) Sonata Notturna for harp (Opus 68b) Sonatina for clavichord or piano (Opus 18) Sonatina for guitar (Opus 98 No. 1) Sonatina for two pianos (Opus 98 No. 2) Sonatina for viola (1949) Suite for harp (Opus 52) Tempi: sonata for harp (Opus 164) Theme and Variations for string quartet (1947) Three Welsh Folk Songs: arranged for cello and piano (2002) Toccata alla giga for organ (Opus 37 No. 1) Toccata for string quartet (1947) Trio for violin, cello and piano (Opus 77) Trio No. 2 for violin, cello and piano (Opus 111) Trio No. 3 for violin, cello and piano (Opus 161)

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Trio for violin, viola and cello (Opus 1) Two pieces for trombone and piano (1990) Variations for flute, clarinet, harp, 2 violins, viola and cello (Opus 28)

Choral An Apple Tree and a Pig (Opus 55) Aspiciens a Longe (1987) Barti Ddu [Black Bart] (Opus 59) The Bells of Paradise (Opus 117) (The) Camargue Mass (Opus 158) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1982) Christ is Risen (1985) Codiad Lloer [Moonrise] (1958) The Coming of the Lord (1990) Cymru [Wales] (1978) Danegeld (Opus 33) Dawns y Nalolig [A Christmas Dance] (1995) Dives and Lazarus (Opus 39) Dulcia Iuventutis (Opus 97) Dwy Garol [2 carols] (1990) Emynau Pantycelyn (Opus 138) ‘Eryri’ [Snowdonia] (1969) Every man’s work shall be made manifest (1964) Flower Songs (1986) Four Welsh Songs (1964) Four Welsh Sings (1971) (The) Gates of Heaven (Opus 143 No. 3) Gloria (Opus 143 No. 2) Great art thou, O God (1961) Great is the Lord (1979) Green Broom (1985) Heddiw Ganed Crist [Today Christ is Born] (1957) Holy, Holy, Holy (1964) The Holy Son of God (1987) Hymnus ante Somnum (Opus 97 No. 2) I send a greeting (1954) Ieuenctid y Dydd [Youth of the Day] (1972) Improvisations on an old Welsh tune (1993) Ingravescentem Aetatem [The Growing Weight of Age] (Opus 108)

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In Parasceve Dominum: III Nocturno (1982) In Praise of Music Job (Opus 24) Jubilate Deo (1983) King of Glory (1983) Lady and Unicorn (Opus 110) The Legend of St. Julian (Opus 124) Lines from Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus (Opus 131) Lines from ‘The Music Makers’ (1994) Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis [St. David’s Service] (1996) (A) May Song (1991) Missa Sancti David (Opus 148) Out of the Deep (Opus 74) (The) Poetry of Earth (Opus 156) Puer Natus (A Child is Born) (1971) The Race of Adam (Opus 23) Rebecca (Opus 26) A Requiem for the Living (1951) St. Paul at Malta (Opus 80) Saviour of the Nations (1991) The Silver Swimmer (Opus 84) Sinfonia Fidei (Opus 95) Sing a new Song (1985) Song of Destiny (1949) Set me as a Seal upon my Heart [Caniad Solomon] (1991) Survivors (1979) Te Deum (Opus 105 No. 1) Three Hymns (Opus 151 No. 1) Three Medieval Songs (Opus 30) Three Motets (Opus 143 No. 4) Three Shakespeare Songs (Opus 151 No. 2) To Autumn (1976) Today Christ is born (1957) The Tree of Life (Opus 79) Two Welsh Folk Songs (1967) Vespers Canticle (1992) Voyagers (Opus 75) What Tidings? (Opus 38 No. 1) The Wondrous Night (Opus 25 No. 1) Wrth ddrws y gorllewin draw’ (By the door of the East yonder) (1966) Yn y preseb ym Methlehem (In a manger in Bethlehem) (1952)

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Incidental music Antarctic Journey (1953) Antigone (1963) Blodeuwedd (1964) Blood Wedding (1957) The Crucible (1958) Dan Owen and the Angel Joe (1951) Esther (1959) The Firstborn (1958) The Horsemasters (1961) Jackie the Jumper (1962) The Jet-Age Metal (1952) The Meeting (1956) Nowhere at Home (1954) Pembrokeshire-My Country (1960) The Pied Piper (1966) Richard Savage (1953) St. David (1951) The Secret World of Odilon Redilon (1973) The Shining Pyramid (1977) Steel be my Sister (1975) Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) There go the ships (1950) The Time Barrier (1954) Whale Hunting (1950)

Music for Brass and Wind Ensembles Celebration Tribute (2005) Chorales, Variants and Fanfares (Opus 144) Concerto for percussion and brass band (Opus 175) Concerto Grosso for brass band (Opus 187) Fanfare and Variants (1985) Fanfare for St. David’s and the Fishguard Festival (1981) Fanfare for the Cardiff Tattoo (1979) Fanfare for the Welsh Celebration Ball (1963) Five Bagatelles for wind quintet (Opus 150b) Four Welsh Dances arranged for Brass Band (Opus 123a) Quodlibet and Welsh Nursery Tunes (1983)

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Ritornelli 2 (Opus 100 No. 2) Symphony No. 8 for brass and percussion (Opus 142) Welsh Airs and Dances (1975) Welsh Dances: suite No. 4 for symphonic wind band (1989)

Operas The Beach of Falesa (Opus 83) The Magician (Opus 88) The Rajah’s Diamond (Opus 99) The Trumpet Major (Opus 103) Tower (Opus 170) What the Old Man Does is Always Right (Opus 93)

Orchestral Adagio for strings (1947) Aubade (Opus 72 No. 4) Aubade and Scherzo (Opus 42) Badger in the Bag (Opus 184) Capriccio (1947) Celebration Dances (Opus 169) Celebration Fanfare (1986) Celebration Tribute (2005) Concertino for horn, trumpet and orchestra (Opus 72) Concertino for viola and small orchestra (Opus 14) Concerto for cello and orchestra (1948) Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra (Opus 3) Concerto No. 2 for clarinet and orchestra (Opus 128) Concerto for euphonium and orchestra (Opus 180) Concerto for harp and orchestra (Opus 11) Concerto for horn and orchestra (Opus 65) Concerto for oboe and string orchestra (Opus 8) Concerto for orchestra (Opus 127) Concerto for organ and orchestra (Opus 51) Concerto No. 1 for piano, wind and percussion (Opus 19) Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra (Opus 21) Concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra (Opus 44) Concerto for trombone and orchestra (Opus 185)

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Concerto for trumpet and orchestra (Opus 154) Concerto No. 1 for violin and orchestra (Opus 22) Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra (Opus 153) Concerto for violin, cello, piano and orchestra (Opus 124) Concerto Grosso No. 1 for chamber orchestra (Opus 41) Concerto Grosso No. 2 for orchestra (Opus 46) Diversions (Opus 126) Divertimento for small orchestra (Opus 69) Doubles: concertante for oboe, harpsichord and string orchestra (Opus 106) Dragon Fire (Opus 167) Entry for orchestra (1960) Fioriture (Opus 60) Five studies for orchestra (Opus 107) ‘the floore of heav’n’ (Opus 72 No. 6) Folk Song Suite (1962); (1965) Four Scenes from The Trumpet Major (Opus 103a) Four Welsh Dances [Set 1] (Opus 15) Four Welsh Dances [Set 2] (Opus 64) Four Welsh Dances [Set 3] (Opus 123) French Suite (Opus 91) Fugal Overture (Opus 4 No. 2) Harlequinade (1949) ‘the hawk is set free’ (Opus 72 No. 5) The Heaventree of Stars (Opus 102) Homage à Chopin (Opus 107 No. 2) Images of Venice (Opus 189) with soprano and baritone soli Improvisations on an old Welsh tune [‘Braint’] (1987) Investiture Dances (Opus 66) Jack Straw (Opus 35) Landscapes (Opus 86) Lanternes des Morts (Opus 105 No. 2) Lizard: Concerto for Orchestra (Opus 181) Night Music (Opus 48) Nightpiece: Music for Orchestra (Opus 86 No. 2) Noctis Equi: poem for cello and orchestra (Opus 132) Nocturne for orchestra (1948) Nocturne for orchestra (Opus 5) Nocturne and Dance for harp and orchestra (Opus 16 No. 2) Nocturnes and Cadenzas for cello and orchestra (Opus 62) Pantomime (Opus 45) Passaggio (Opus 94)

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Pastorale (1949) Phantasy Overture (1947) Prelude, Nocturne and Dance for harp and orchestra (Opus 16b) Pullman Prelude (1988) Quodlibet on Welsh nursery tunes (1982) Rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1946) Rhapsody on Welsh tunes (1989) Scena for string orchestra (Opus 119) Scenes and Interludes: concertante for trumpet, harpsichord and string orchestra (Opus 115) Scherzo (1949) Serenade (1948) Serenade for string orchestra (Opus 13) Sinfonia for string orchestra (Opus 34) Sinfonietta No. 1 for orchestra (Opus 56) Sinfonietta No. 2 for orchestra (Opus 67) Sinfonietta No. 3 for orchestra (Opus 71) Sinfonietta No. 4 for orchestra (Opus 72 No. 3) Star Children (Opus 135) Suite No. 1 for orchestra (Opus 72 No. 1) ‘the sun, the great luminary of the universe’ (Opus 76) Suo-gân (Lullaby) (1958) Symphonic Suite (1949) Symphony No. 1 (Opus 7) Symphony No. 2 (Opus 29) Symphony No. 3 (Opus 61) Symphony No. 4 (Opus 70) Symphony No. 5 (Opus 81) Symphony No. 6 (Opus 116) Symphony No. 7 (Opus 137) Symphony No. 8 (Opus 142): see music for brass and wind ensemble Symphony No. 9 (Opus 145) with soprano solo Symphony No. 10 (Opus 172) Tarantella for harp and orchestra (1988) Theatre Overture (1984) Two Impressions for orchestra (1949) Two Welsh Nursery Tunes (1959) Variants for orchestra (Opus 47) Variation [No. 2: Nocturne] on a Welsh Folk Song [‘Braint’] for Orchestra (1966) Variations (Opus 31)

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Songs (An) Address of Melancholy (1949) Ancestor Worship (Opus 82) Caneuon Indeg [Songs for Indeg] (1997) Come Away Death (1949) A Contemplation upon Flowers (Opus 90) Dirge (1948) Dover Beach (sketch) (1946) Drink Today (1947) Ending (1949) Epilogue (1946) Five Landscapes [Ynys Mon] (Opus 87) Five Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bequer (Opus 152 No. 2) Grongar Hill (Opus 168) A Lover’s Complaint (1949) Lullaby for medium voice and piano (Opus 4 No. 1) Medieval Carol (Opus 38, No. 2) ‘One must always have love’ (Opus 183) Paradwys Mai [Paradise of May] (Opus 143 No. 1) (The) Poetry of Earth (Opus 165) (The) Promontary of Dreams (Opus 183) Roman Dream (Opus 54) See, see the Shepherds Queen (1946) La Serenissima (Opus 173) Seven Folk Songs (2005) (The) Silver Hound (Opus 121) (The) Silver Swimmer (Opus 152 No. 1) Six Songs for tenor and string quartet (1949) Six Welsh Folk Songs (1982) Songs of Exile (Opus 133) To the Poet (Opus 171) Two songs for bass and piano (Opus 2) Two songs for voice and piano (1946) Two songs from Glamorgan for tenor and piano (1990) Two songs from Glamorgan for baritone and piano (2000) Tymhorau (Opus 155) Y Saith Cysgadur [Once a Farmer and his Wife] (2002)

General Index

Aberystwyth Arts Festival, 83 Abse, Dannie, 54 Ackerman, Neville, 190 Air (Musgrave), 66 Aldershot High School, 82 Allt, W. Greenhouse, 66 American Ballet Company, 68 American Waterways Wind Orchestra, 164 Amici Ensemble, 144 Ammanford Choral Society, 64 Amoyal, Pierre, 120 Andersen, Hans Christian, 124 Anglesey Education Committee, 106 Anglesey Festival, 74 Anglo-Welsh Society, 54 Annals, Michael, 72 Anouilh, Jean, 74 Anschutz, Janet, 141 Anthony, Trevor, 63, 64, 70 Aquarius, 156 Archinto String Quartet, 188, 194 Armstrong, Richard, 131, 122, 163 Arnold, Malcolm, 89 Arnold, Matthew, 37 Arnold Bax Purse and Medal, 20 Aronowitz, Cecil, 44, 59 Arts Council of Great Britain, 100, 105, 114, 122, 181 Ashcroft, Douglas, 197

Ashcroft, Peggy, 87 Ashe, Thomas, 167 Aston, Martin, 72 Atkinson, Ann, 190 Atlantic College, 74 Audley, John, 81 Ausonius, 141 Aylen, Leo, 120 Bach Choir, 123 Ball, Janice, 180 Balzac, Honore de, 28 Banks, Barry, 136 Barbirolli, John, vii, 45 Barford, Imogen, 143 Barlow, Alan, 82 Barnes, Michael, 89 Barrett, C., 191 Barton, Fenella, 184 Barton, James, 105 BASBWE Educational Trust, 195 Bauer, H., 82 Bayley, Clive, 136, 137 BBC (Wales), xi, 17–22, 44–48, 50–54, 61, 77, 81, 109, 120, 130, 133, 160, 199 BBC Concert Orchestra, 60, 62, 149 BBC Festival of Light Music, 20, 21, 60, 61 BBC Midland Light Orchestra, 86 221

222 · ALUN HODDINOTT BBC National Orchestra of Wales, x, 178, 179, 187, 192, 196, 197, 202 BBC Northern Orchestra, 86 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, 154, 156 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, 66, 93 BBC Symphony Orchestra, 45, 65, 73, 199 BBC Television, 28 BBC Training Orchestra, 89 BBC TV (Wales), 89 BBC Welsh Choral Society, 64 BBC Welsh Festival of Music, 63 BBC Welsh Orchestra, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 61, 63, 76, 77, 79, 81, 86, 97, 99, 103, 110, 111, 165 BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, 25, 31, 32, 64, 89, 90, 104, 117, 128, 131, 133, 134, 138, 146, 160, 163, 164, 172 BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, 28 Beachy, Morris J., 1154, 115 Beattie, Austen, 194 Beaumaris, Festival, 34, 188 Belfast Wind Quintet, 191 Bell, William L., 49 Benet, Elinor, 98, 100, 101 Benjamin, Arthur, 17 Berentsen, Kurt, 128 Berkeley, Lennox, 29 Bevan, Cecil, 101 Bigg, Julian, 119, 125 Black, Stanley, 69 Black Mountain Male Chorus, 190 Blades, James, 125 Blair, W. J., 171, 186 Blake, William, 172 Bliss, Alice Witherspoon, 172, 177 Bliss, Evelyn Lee, 172, 177 Bohana, Roy, 82, 89, 92, 97, 102, 107 Borrow, George, 51

Bosanko, Ivor, 53, 54, 55, 57 Bostock, Douglas, 179 Boudreau, Robert, 164 Boult, Adrian, 89 Boulton, T., 175 Bournemouth Sinfonietta, 119 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, 70 Boustany, Wissan, 133 Bowen, Kenneth, 107, 123, 130, 151 Bower, Geraint, 183 Boyd, James, 175 Boyd-Waddell, C., 178 Braithwaite, Helena, 143, 180 Brewer, Aline, 62 Bridge String Quartet, 183 British Broadcasting Corporation 20, 21, 24, 50, 51, 55, 60, 62, 89, 93, 99, 149, 163, 178, 187, 197 British Coal, ix British Pushkin Bicentennial Trust, 192 British Youth Symphony Orchestra, 60 Britten, Benjamin, x, 129 Britten-Pears Foundation, 181, 185 Broadbent, Peter, 176 Bromsgrove Festival, 78 Brott, Boris, 86, 89, 104, 117 Browne, Sandra, 113 Browning, Robert, 87 Bruce, Ian, 65 Bryan, Robert, 113 Brymer, Jack, 45 Bryn-Jones, Delme, 113 Bullivant, Roger, 52 Bunford, Clifford, 39, 40, 107, 118, 141 Burbridge, Michael, 110 Burgess, Grayston, 121 Burke, Terence, 48 Burnett, Myron, 131 Burrows, Stuart, 116, 140, 166 Burtch, Mervyn, 84 Bussey, Martin, 136

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Butler, John, 87, 103 Buxton, David, 136 Byles, Edward, 113 Byron, Lord, 192, 202 Caernavonshire County Youth Choir, 92 Caernavonshire County Youth Orchestra, 92 Caernavonshire Education Authority, 24, 92 Caerphilly Festival, 22, 82 Calabrese, Alfred, 172 Caley, Ian, 117 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 88, 115 Cambrian Male Choir, 190 Camden, Anthony, 138 Camden Chamber Choir, 145 Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, vii, 36, 201 Cantelo, April, 70 Cardiff Aelwyd Choir, 111 Cardiff Ardwyn Singers, 34, 180 Cardiff Bach Choir, 64 Cardiff Chamber Orchestra, 154 Cardiff City Council, 172 Cardiff College of Music and Drama, 18, 59, 69 Cardiff County & Vale of Glamorgan Youth Orchestra, 188 Cardiff Festival of Choirs, 126 Cardiff Festival of Music (1987), 157 Cardiff Festival of 20th Century Music ix, 23, 31, 102 Cardiff Festival Players, 111 Cardiff Polyphonic Choir, 89, 92, 97 102, 107 Carewe, John, 79, 86 Carols of Today, 81 Carols Old and New (Carolau Hen a Newydd), 49 Cashmore, Donald, 109 Catallus, 141

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Cawdrey, Julian, 168 Chamber Music Players, 40, 41, 44 Chard, Geoffrey, 130 Charles, Prince of Wales, vii, 36, 90, 95, 134, 201 Charles, Howard, 136 Charlton-West, Alison, 190 Charlottesville and University Orchestra, 134 Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra, 107 Cheltenham Music Festival, vii, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 31, 62, 73, 80, 85, 92, 100, 122, 131, 153 Cheltenham Young People’s Orchestra, 42, 110 Childs, David, 195, 196, 198 Childs, Robert, 200 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, 66, 68, 100 City of London Choir, 109 City of London Sinfonia, 150, 151 City of London Trio, 142 City of Portsmouth International String Quartet Competition, 132 Clarke, Raymond, 162 Clements, Fred, 45 Clemmow, Caroline, 170 Cleobury, Nicholas, 156 Clinton, Gordon, 51 Coates, Elizabeth, 72 Cockrill, Ross, 46, 47 Coffin, Charles, 171 Coleman, Basil, 131, 137 Coleridge, Samuel T., 186 Commissiona, Sergiu, 86 Composers’ Ensemble, The, 176, 177 Constable, John, 124 Conway, Mario, 131 Coombes, Linda, 118 Cork International Choir Festival, 22, 77 Cory, Christopher, 69, 126, 141, 155, 158

224 · ALUN HODDINOTT Court, Robert, 141, 154 Cowper, William, 180 Craig, Russell, 191 Crawford, E.M., 192, 202 Creasy, Philip, 136, 190 Criccieth Festival, 173 Crooks, Alan Rankin, 190 Crooks, Stephanie, 190 Cross, Stephen, 114 Crosse, Gordon, 120 Croydon Youth Orchestra, 87 Curtis, David, 170 Czech Nonet, 93 Dalziel, Alan, 124 Daniel, Nicholas, 143 Darbyshire, Alan, 193 Dart, Thurston, 20, 57, 58, 64 Davies, Aneurin Talfan, 63 Davies, Eiluned. 54 Davies, Gareth, 190 Davies, Harvey, 184, 201 Davies, Haydn Wyn, 92 Davies, Helen, 201 Davies, Hubert, 84 Davies, Huw, 123 Davies, Hywel, 66 Davies, Ieuan, 113 Davies, John, 119, 125 Davies, John S., 135, 171, 174, 182 Davies, Maldwyn, 118, 123, 125, 140 Davies, Menai, 131 Davies, Neal, 192 Davies, Noel, 149 Davies, Peter, 104 Davies, Andrew, 115 Davison, Arthur, 87, 98, 108, 139, 149, 157, 161, Day, Pat, 57 Day Lewis, C., 41 DeLacey, Terry, 118 De la Mare, W., 167 Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill), 67 Dexter, John, 72 Diack, James, 81

Dickens, Charles, 192, 202 Dickinson, Emily, 177 Disney, Walt, Ltd., 69 Dolmetsch, Carl, 121 Don, Robin, 137 Donne, John, 172, 176, 196 Downes, Edward, 103 Draper, Arnold, 125, 126 Dublin Festival, 132 Dyer, John, xi, 188 Dyfed Choir, 123, 135 Dynevor, Lucy, 83 Dynevor, Richard, 83 Dynevor Festival, 91 Eager, Mark, 199 Earnshaw, C. G., 54 East Midlands Arts Association, 121 Earthorn, Wendy, 123 Ebony Quartet, 152 Edmunds, James, 55 Edwards, Philip L., 137 Elizabethan Singers, 71, 81 Elliott, Charles, 75 Elliott, Gaenor, 170 Ellis, Osian, 53, 56, 62, 80, 99 Emory University Concert Choir, 172 Elton, Christian, 95 English, Gerald, 109 English Chamber Orchestra, 82 Equale Brass, 142, 143 Erenberg, Lionel, 48 Esso Petroleum Ltd., 66 Europa Cantat, 6, 120 Evans, Elwyn, 46, 48, 51, 54 Evans, Geraint, vii, 97, 113, 117, 118, 124, 131 Evans, Nancy, 51 Evans, Peryn Clement, 184 Everett, Cynthia, 48 Faerben, Jorg, 110 Fairchild, William, 69 Fairfax, Bryan, 65 Farnborough Grammar School, 82

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Farnham Festival, 22, 75, 82 Farnham Girls’ Choir, 75 Farr, Ray, 170, 179 Fergus-Thompson, Gordon, 194 Field, Helen, 202 Filsell, Jeremy, 176 Finch, Catrin, 201 Fisher, Terence, 68 Fishguard Festival, 26, 28, 34, 35, 119, 124, 134, 174, 184, 191, 197 Fishlock, Trevor, x, 198 Flaubert, Gustav, 157 Fletcher, John, 39, 40, 43, 46 Foster, Nigel, 166, 170, 177, 180, 193 Freeborn, Dennis, 144 French, Bruce, 127 Frog Dance (Carse), 15 Froom, Jaccqueline, , 8381 Fry, Christopher, 59 Gabrieli Ensemble, 94 Gabrieli String Quartet, 160 Galantiere, Lewis, 74 Gale, Elizabeth, 117 Galliver, David, 70 Garden Festival (1992), 167 Gardner, John, 120 Garratt, David, 125 Gaskell, Elizabeth, 136 Gaudeamus, 120 Gaunt, Helena, 181 Geliot, Michael, 113 Geordiadis, John, 146 George, Gwyneth, 130 Gethin-Lewis, Joanna, 69 Gibson, Alexander, 122 Gill, Bridgett, 190 Gledhill, Bridget, 195 Gledhill, Owen, 195 Gledhill, Peter, 195 Glendower Singers, 77 Gloucestershire County Council, 153 Glynd
r Award, 34 Goddard, Scott, 58

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Goulder, Stanley, 66 Goulding, Fraser, 191 Gowerton School Orchestra, 153 Greater London Arts Association, 145 Green, Roger, 105 Gregson, Edward, 148, 158 Griffiths, Clive, 55 Griffiths, June, 55, 59 Groves, Charles, 90, 98, 123 Gruenberg, Eric, 109 Gruffydd, Dafydd, 47, 50, 51 Guest, George, viii, 156, 157, 164, 167, 168, 173 Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music, 23, 53, 84, 176 Gunnel, Owain, 194 Guy, Alun, 126 Gwent Schools Band, 167 Hackney, Alan, 68 Haines, Christopher, 82 Haines, Cliff, 72 Hall, D., 54 Hallé Concerts Society, 95, 101 Hallé Orchestra, vii, 24, 45, 56, 95, 101, 179 Halsey, Louis, 71, 81 Hamilton, Mark, 113 Hammer Films, 67 Handford, Maurice, 81, 86, 95, 101 Handley, Vernon, 64, 104, 117 Hardy, Thomas, 135 Harlech Television, 26, 117, 120, 121 Harrhy, Eiddwen, 124 Harries, David, 84 Harries, Moelfryn, 120 Harries, Nia, 182, 184 Harrison, Eric, 103 Harvey, Trevor, 19, 45, 49 Havard, Royston, 155, 186 Haydn, Franz Joseph, 17 Hazell, Tony, Prof., 173 Heber, Bishop R., 77 Hedges, Joyce, 71

226 · ALUN HODDINOTT Hendry, Linn, 145 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, 21, 163 Hepburn, David, 125 Herbert, George, 176 Herrick, Robert, 154 Hesford, Bryan, 78, 80 Hess, A., 175 Hessey-White, H., 175 Hickox, Richard, 158, 164 Hillman, David, 131 Hilton, Janet, 156 Hoddinott, Alun: as conductor: 45, 49, 53, 56, 63, 66, 77, 85, 106, 138, 146, 153, 154, 156 as performer: 44; as writer: 205–208 Hoddinott, Gertrude (mother), 15 Hoddinott, Huw Ceri (son), 20, 63 Hoddinott, Rhiannon (wife), 18, 50, 78, 92, 106, 140 Hoddinott, Thomas (father), 15 Holland, Ben, 180 Holland, Mark, 136 Hollingsworth, John, 68 Holloway, Robin, 120 Holst Foundation, 181 Hooson, I.D., 92 Horace, 141 Hornpipe (G. Bush), 65 Hose, Anthony, 113, 198 Hoult, David, 136, 137 Housman, A.E., 37 Howard, Karen, 180 Howarth, Elgar, 114, 115 Hudson, John, 174 Hudson, Lawrence, 107 Hughes, Arwel, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 61, 64, 77 Hughes, Owain Arwel, 133, 138, 149, 153, 163, 167, 179, 199 Hughes, Philip, 125 Hughes, Richard, 51 Humble, Keith, 94

Hume, Pius, 136 Humphreys, Emyr, 61, 77, 91, 94, 112, 116, 123, 132, 162 Hunt, Dennis, 46 Hurst, George, 88 Huws, Rev. Llywelyn, 18, 49, 71, 165 Hyde, Wesley, 66 Incorporated Society of Musicians, 105 Inter-City (British Rail), 159 International Festival of Youth Brass and Symphonic Bands, 118 International String Quartet Competition (Portsmouth), 28 International Youth Symphonic Band, 118 Investiture Choir, 97 Investiture of the Prince of Wales, 24, 92, 97, 98 Ionian Singers, 139 Isaacs, George, 103, 105 Jackson, Nicholas, 30, 138, 146, 147 Jacques Orchestra, 82 James, Douglas, 118 James, Gwynno, 69, 82 James, Henry, 202 James, Ifor, 96 James Smyth Ltd., 82 Jan Sedivka Chamber Orchestra, 45 Jenkins, John, 128, 144 Jenkins, Leighton, 16 Jenkins, Manon, 32, 168 Jenkins, Rae, 46, 47, 48 John Edwards Memorial Award, 23 John Feeney Charitable Trust, 68 John S. Davies Singers, 171, 174, 182 Johnston, David, 109 Jones, Daniel, 89 Jones, Gareth, 196 Jones, Glyn, 57, 75, 112

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Jones, Glynne, 106, 128, 129, 165 Jones, Gwyn, 50 Jones, Gwyneth, x, 172 Jones, Ieuan, 160 Jones, Louise, 169 Jones, Martin, 86, 111, 146, 152, 154 Jones, Richard Elfyn, 126 Jones, Roger, 84 Jones, Rowland, 113 Jones, T. Gwynn, 89 Jones, Yolande, 124 Jones, Zena, 136 Jordan, David, 137 Joubert, John, 120 Joyce, James, 133 Joyce, Robert, 69, 70, 90 Joyful Company of Singers, 176 Joynes, Mary, 75 Judd, Roger, 201 Kang, Dong-Suk, 178 Kansas State University Concert Choir, 141 Kay, Brian, 157 Kay, Norman, 123 Keats, John, 38, 120, 180, 186 Keefe, Bernard, 118 Kellaway, Rena, 103 Kelleher, Frank, 53, 54, 55, 57, 140 Kemp, John, 42 Kempe, Rudolf, 94 Kendall, May, 40 Kennedy, B.H., 164, 167 Kevala Films, 114 Kingsley, Colin, 73 Kitchin, Margaret, 108 Knight, Norman, 72 Lady Margaret Singers, 176 Lancaster University Concerts, 111 LePage, David, 170 Lewis, Christopher, 128 Lewis, Euros, 125 Lewis, John, 57 Lewis, Saunders, ix, 61, 77, 170

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Lewis, V. Anthony, 70 Leyshon, Elinor, 44 Libove, Charles, 109, 169 Liddell, Nono, 44 Lidiard, Pamela, 182, 184 Lindsay, Anthony, 127 Little Symphony of London, 87 Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, 53 Llandaff Cathedral Choir, 70 Llandaff Cathedral Choral Society, 70 Llandaff Festival, 70, 90, 96, 123, 146 Llaneli Male Choir, 138 Llewellyn, Grant, 151, 165, 196, 199 Llewelyn-Jones, I., 169, 173 Lloyd, Morgan, 16 Lloyd, Richard, 102 Lloyd, Robert, viii, 190 Lloyd-Jones, David, 111 London Bach Orchestra, 109 London Classical Orchestra, 45 London College of Music Symphony Orchestra, 134 London Concert Choir, 159 London Double-Bass Ensemble, 134 London Jupiter Orchestra, 159 London Mozart Players, 27, 97, 121 London Sinfonietta, 115 London String Trio, 44 London Symphony Orchestra, 32, 66, 104, 114, 161 London Virtuosi, 138, 146 Longfellow, H.W., 202 Lorca, Federica G., 55 Loughran, James, 93 Lower Machen Festival, 33, 170, 175 Lugovoy, Nina, 109, 169 Lumsden, Andrew, 150 Lush, Ernest, 100 Luther, Mark, 190 McBrearty, Claire, 125 McCabe, John, 84, 88 Machen, Arthur, 123 Machynlleth Music Festival, 34, 183

228 · ALUN HODDINOTT Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust, 183 Mackerras, Charles, 118 McMahon, Richard, 152 Macnaghten Concerts, 73 McPherson, Alexander, 113 Maghen, Arthur, 123 Mahler, Gustav, x Malipiero, Francesco, 25 Manduell, John, 122, 183, 187 Manduell, Renna, 122 Manley, Paul, 62 Mar, Norman del, 99, 103 Marion, Thelma, 52 Marlowe, Christopher, 159 Marsh, David, 190 Martin, Alexander, 164 Marvell, Andrew, 154 Marwood, A., 175 Mason, D., 57 Masters, Janet, 170 Mathias, William, 84, 120, 173 Mathieson, Muir, 69 Matters, Colin, 146 Matthew-Walker, Robert, 125 Maw, Nicholas, 89, 120 Mayer, Dorothy, 77 Medici Quartet, 145 Mee, Anthony, 136 Melos Ensemble, 20, 55, 67 Merchant, Paul, 107 Merchant, W. Moelwyn, 69, 102, 109, 115, 143 Meyrick, Morfydd, 15 Mickelgate Singers, 144 Midland Arts Association, 103 Miles, Maurice, 65, 66 Milford, Julian, 192 Miller, Arthur, 59 Miller, Gavin, 95 Mills, John, 121 Milton, John, 167 Mitchell, Ena, 51 Mitchell, Ronald, 47 Miyamoto, Naoko, 200 Moisey, Avelia, 134 Moody, John, 125

More, Henry, 156 Morgan, Jim, 144 Morgan, John, 117 Morgan, Joseph, 88 Morgan, K., 54 Morgan, Robert Huw, 157 Moritz, Alfred, 129 Morris, Manon, 181, 184, 186 Morys, Twn, 181 Mound, Peter, 82 Mumford, Nigel, 55 Munro, Jeremy, 136 Musica Varia, 148 Myers, Thalia, 155, 181, 185, 197 Mytton-Davies, Cynric, 51 Nadirian, Aris, 190 Nagano, Kent, 161 National Association of Brass Teachers in Education, 159 National Chamber Orchestra of Wales, 191 National Children’s Orchestra, 155 National Federation of Womens’ Institutes, 49 National Welsh-American Foundation, 29 National Youth Brass Band of Wales, 148, 158, 170, 179, 193, 200 National Youth Choir of Wales, 159 National Youth Orchestra of Wales, 16, 22, 24, 29, 76, 85, 98, 108, 139, 149, 157, 161 Neary, Martin, 109 Nendick, Josephine, 94 Neville, David, 169, 167 New Chamber Ensemble of Wales, 173 New Philharmonia Orchestra, 79, 86, 103 Newbury Spring Festival, 160 Newport College of Art and Design, 87 Newport College of Art Music Society, 94

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Nicholson, Ralph, 87 North, Robin, 46, 54 North Monmouthshire Festival, 110 North Wales Music Festival, 29, 34, 35, 134, 176, 186, 192, 194 North Wales Youth Orchestra, 106 Northern Chamber Orchestra, 180 Northern Horn Trio, 195 Ogdon, John, 23, 85, 86, 95 Olafsdottir, Hallfridur, 133 O’Neill, Eugene, 68 Opera Box, 189 Opus Television, 173, 182 Oriel Trio, 167 Ormrod, Richard, 185 Ornbo, Robert, 72 Orvelius, Margaretha. 136 O’Shaughnessy, Arthur, 175 O’Sullivan, Tyrone, ix Otaka, Tadaaki, 172, 178, 192, 197 Ovid Ensemble, 193 Owen, Elenid, 185 Owen, John, 189 Owen, Meurig Wynn, 74 Owens, Roger, 175 Oxford University Press, 19, 70, 80, 86, 102, 127 Painter, Christopher, 179 Palmer, Felicity, 119 Parikian, Manoug, 68 Paris Chamber Ensemble, 94 Parrott, Ian, 84 Parry, Herbert S., 90 Parry, W., 57 Parry-Williams, T.H., 97, 110, 116, 126 Parsons, Geoffrey, 112 Parsons, Paul, 142 Patrick, Paul, 125 Patterson, Paul, 156 Payne, Ifan, viii, 177 Paynes, Alan, 78 Pearce, Alison, 123 Pearson, Gail, 178

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Pembrokeshire Youth Choir, 171 Pendyrus Male Choir, 25, 33, 106, 128, 129, 165 Pepoli, C., 191 Peyer, Gervase de, vii, 45 Philbert, Paul, 174 Philharmonia Orchestra, vii, 153, 201 Philharmonic Orchestra, 123 Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, 131 Phillips, Eric, 188 Phillips, Garfield, 16 Phillips, John, 55 Phillips, Peter, 131 Philomusica of London, 57, 58 Phoenix Chamber Orchestra, 119, 125 Pinn, Leonard, 104 Piper, John, 69, 125, 146 Piper, Myfanwy, 27, 119, 124, 130, 135, 157 Pollock, Michael, 178 Polyphonia Orchestra, 65 Pontarddulais Choir, 149 Portio Wind Ensemble, 75 Poston, Elizabeth, 51 Potts, Harry, 74 Powell, Cyril, 49 Price, Janet, 109 Price, Kathryn, 196, 197 Price, Margaret, 109 Price, Stephen, 125, 126 Price, Vivienne, 155 Priddy, Huw, 190 Priestman, Brian, 58 Primavera Orchestra, 62 Prince’s Trust, 202 Prudentius Marcus Aurelius Clemens, 129 Puddy, Keith, 91 Pugh, John, 136 Purcell Concert, 121 Pushkin, Alexander, 191 Qui, Liwei, 187 Rafferty, Michael, 177 Ralls, Stephen, 112

230 · ALUN HODDINOTT Rands, Bernard, 84 Ranger, Brigid, 103 Ranger-Kellaway Duo, 103 Rawlings, Barbara, 55 Rawsthorne, Alan, 73, 111 Raybould, Clarence, 76, 85 Reader, Graham, 174 Remoortel, Edouard van, 96 Repertory Orchestra (RAM), 146 Reynolds, John, 196 Rhys, Nicholas, W., 179 Ricci, Riggiero, 100 Richard Hickox Singers, 157 Richard Williams Singers, 175 Richards, David, 136 Ridout, Alan, 120 Rignold, Hugo, 66, 68 Robbins Landon, H.C., 25 Roberts, Eric, 131 Roberts, Mervyn, 84 Roberts, Novella, 55 Roberts, Robert, 136 Roberts, Stephen, 112, 128 Robinson, Christopher, 168, 171 Robinson, Forbes, 113 Robinson, Stanford, 62 Robles, Marisa, 91 Rogé, Pascal, 120 Rogers, Samuel, 192 Ronchetti, Martin, 125 Rose, Gregory, 159 Rosetti, C., 177 Roskett, Carl, 134 Ross, Susanna, 131 Rostropovich, Mstislav, 32, 161 Rothwell, Evelyn, 52 Royal Academy of Music, 25, 30, 146, 201 Royal Academy of Music Brass, 194 Royal Amateur Orchestral Society Orchestra, 85 Royal College of Music Wind Ensemble, 195 Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 200 Royal Concert (The), 65

Royal Danish Opera, 31 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, 90, 123 Royal National Eisteddfod: 1955: 19, 53 1960: 21, 65 1963: 22, 76 1965: 23, 78 1966: 85 1967: 91 1975: 26, 116 1978: 126 1990: 32, 165 Royal National Eisteddfod Choir, 126, 165 Royal Northern College of Music, vii, 28, 136, 183 Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, 137 Royal Northern College of Music Orchestra, 137 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, 88, 94, 98, 109, 115 Royal Philharmonic Society, 23, 88 Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 32 Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra, 196 RTE Singers, 13 Ruskin, John, 202 Sager, Sid, 60 St. Cecilia Orchestra, 49 St. David’s Cathedral Bach Festival, 138, 150 St. David’s Cathedral Choir, 183 St. David’s Festival, 29, 145, 182 St. David’s Hall (Cardiff), 172 St. David’s Medal (Welsh Society of New York), 28 St. David’s Metropolitan Cathedral (Cardiff), 169 St. John’s College (Cambridge), viii, 156, 157, 164, 167, 168, 171

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St. Lawrence’s Church, Montreal, 151 Salaman, William, 125, 154 Salter, Timothy, 139 Samuel, John, 116, 166 Sand, George, 202 Sanders, John, 109 Sanne, Nigel, 136 Sargent, Malcolm, 45 Sartori String Quartet, 111 Satchell, M., 191 Schartz, Philippe, 179 Schubertians, 129 Schuster-Craig, J., 178 Schwarz, Rudolf, 73, 100 Scott, John, 90 Scottish National Orchestra, 122 Scriven, Philip, 168 Searle, Humphrey, 82 Sedivka, Jan, 45 Seneca the Younger, 141 Seymour, Thomas, 176 Shakespeare, William, 41, 42, 114, 173 Sharman, Mary Ann, 143 Sharp, Kevin, 190 Sheffield Bach Players, 52 Shell U.K., 161 Shelley, Howard, 111 Shelley, Percy B., 38, 172, 202 Shewring, Simon, 162, 174, 175 Shultsz, Jan, 168 Sinfonia Cymru, 196 Sirenian Singers, 139, 151, 154 Sitwell, Edith, 47 Slaney, Michael, 174, 183 Slavin, Archie, 54 Small, Gareth, 178 Small, Jonathan, 143 Smith, David Gwesyn, 143, 165 Smith, Michael, 102 Smith, Robert, 58, 84 Snow, Barbara, 134 Soames, Rene, 51 Sommer, Raphael, 99 South Glamorgan High Schools’ Choir, 155

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South Glamorgan Youth Choir, 143 South Glamorgan Youth Orchestra, 140, 143 South Glamorgan Youth Orchestra Parents’ Association, 140 South Wales Argus, 82 Southampton Education Committee, 104 Southampton Youth Orchestra, 104 Southern Arts Association, 160 Spencer, Lady Diana (Princess of Wales), 134 Staddon, Joan, 55 Stanley-Jones, Jean, 139 Stapleton, Robin, 131 Stark, Ronald, 66 Steele-Perkins, C., 146 Steen, Jac Van, 202 Stephens, Jerry, 115 Stephens, Paula, 115 Steptoe, Roger, 151 Sterndale Singers, 142 Stevenson, Robert L., 112, 130 Stone, David, 60 Stones, Joseph, 79 Stowell, Robin, 125 Streets, John, 91 Stroud Festival, 107 Stroud Festival Choir, 107 Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, 137 Stuttgart Piano Trio, 147, 154 Susskind, Walter, 79 Swansea Festival, 104, 163, 174 Sweeney, Eric, 132 Swing Jig (Hamilton), 65 Takacs-Nagy Quartet, 132 Tate, Phyllis, 120 Tausky, Vilem, 60 Taynton Trust, 109 Tear, Robert, 163 Tenby Festival, 33, 187 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 138 Third Programme (BBC), 20, 55 Thomas, Caryl, 140

232 · ALUN HODDINOTT Thomas, Dylan, 159 Thomas, Gwion, 136, 190 Thomas, Gwn, 72 Thomas, Gwyn, 179, 185, 187, 197 Thomas, Hugh, 174 Thomas, Kelvin, 118, 131 Thomas, Mansel, 41, 44, 84 Thomas, Martin, 170 Thomas, Philip, 125 Thomas, R. George, 77 Thomas, Richard, 106 Thompson, Adrian, 131 Thomson, Bryden, 90, 128, 134 Three Choirs Festival (Gloucester), 25, 109 Three Choirs Festival Chorus, 109 Tingay, Gillian, 100 Tippett, Michael, 24, 89, 93 Tortelier, Paul, 121 Tortelier, Yan Pascal, 151 Tower Colliery, ix Traherne, Cennydd, 166 Troman, Peggy, 113 Truefitt, Alison, 119 Tryon, Valerie, 63, 65, 66, 73, 105 Tuckwell, Barry, 108 Turner, John, 187 Turton, Peter, 134 T.W.W. Ltd., 72 University College, Cardiff, ix, 16, 17, 20, 23, 141 University College (Cardiff) Choir, 107, 141 University College (Cardiff) Opera Orchestra, 118 University of Aberystwyth, 21 University of California, 29, 128, 129 University of Guelph, 29 University of Sheffield, 33 University of Texas at Austin, 26, 27, 31 University of Texas at Austin Choir, 115 University of Wales Council of Music, 58 University Ensemble of Cardiff, 83

Vale of Glamorgan Festival, 108, 112 Vaszonyi, Balint, 109 Vaughan, Henry, 172 Vaughan Williams, Ralph, x, 18 Vaughan Williams, Ursula, 144, 151 Ventura, Alberto, 87, 105 Venturi Ensemble, 75 Virtuoso Ensemble, 74, 92 Vocal Ensemble of Wales, 126 Walden, Valerie, 82 Walford Davies Prize for Composition, 19 Walker, Alan, 171 Walker, Rod, 141 Wallace, Ian, 131 Walp, Glenn, 128, 129 Walters, Gareth, 84 Walters, Irwyn, 16 Walters, Terence, 113 Wanamaker, Sam, 114 Warren, Edward, 183 Warren-Green, Christopher, 133, 201 Watkins, Cynwyd, 16 Watkins, Dewi, 125 Watney Mann Ltd., 75 Watson, James, 194 Watts Jane, 164, 174 Watts, Malcolm, 150 Weil, Terence, 44 Welsh Amateur Music Federation, 138, 179, 193, 195, 200 Welsh Arts Council, 58, 71, 79, 89, 103, 108, 112, 115, 117, 119, 121, 123, 124, 130, 134, 135, 138, 139, 140, 142, 144, 146, 147, 148, 150, 154, 155, 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 163, 165, 163, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 179, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 199, 200 Welsh Chamber Orchestra, 198 Welsh Guards, 75, 128

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Welsh Joint Education Committee, 85, 108, 139, 157, 161 Welsh League of Youth, 111 Welsh Music Guild, 36 Welsh National Council of the UN Association, 95 Welsh National Opera Company, 26, 111–113 Welsh Philharmonic Orchestra, 113, 117, 122 Welsh Promenade Concerts: 1986: 153 1995: 178 West Glamorgan Youth Choir, 128 West Glamorgan Youth Orchestra, 128, 144 Western Mail, The, 189 Wetherall, Eric, 117 Wheatley, Brendan, 191 White, Jon Manchip, 70, 81, 114, 127, 176 Whitman, Walt, 43, 186 Wick, Denis, 115, 196 Wiegold, Mary, 177 Wiggins, Bram, 60 Wigglesworth, Mark, 187 Wild, James, 142 Wilde, David, 111 Wilkinson, George, 92 Willcocks, David, 123 Williams, Clifford, 70 Williams, D.E., 54 Williams, Grace, 84, 89 Williams, Gwyn, 106

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Williams, Hugh Tregelles, 127, 129, 135 Williams, Indeg, 184 Williams, Janice, 111 Williams, Jeremy Huw, 32, 166, 168, 170, 177, 180, 182, 184, 186, 188, 190, 193, 198, 201, 202 Williams, Manon, 184 Williams, Mervyn, 126, 131 Williams, Richard, 175 Williams, William, 165 Williamson, Julian, 145 Willis, Ted, 69 Wilson, Colin, 82 Wilson, John, 199 Wilson, Julia, 82 Wilson, Paul, 64 Wind Music Society, 65 Wolff, Elaine. 134 Wordsworth, William, 122 Wright, John, 86, 108 Wynne, David, 67, 84 Yeats, W.B., 177 York College for Girls, 144 Yorkshire Arts Association, 142 Young, Simon, 127 Youth and Music, 26 Youth Brass Ensemble of Wales, 159 Zaliouk, Yuval, 110 Zanotelli, Hans, 137 Zytowski, Carl, 128, 129