Gareth Walters: Song-Cycles and Chamber Music

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Gareth Walters: Song-Cycles and Chamber Music

Song of the Heart

Catalogue Number: TOCC0090
EAN: 5060113440907
Release Date: 17 November 2008
Duration: 68:40

Cân y galon (Song of the Heart)
Little Suite for Flute and Harp
Violin Sonata
Berceuse for harp
Poésies du soir (Poems of the Evening)

Carolyn Foulkes, soprano
Sally Pryce, harp
Adam Walker, flute
Adam Summerhayes, violin
Nicola Eimer, piano
Wendy Dawn Thompson, mezzo soprano
London Concertante, ensemble
Gregory Rose, conductor

The Welsh composer Gareth Walters (1928–2012) studied with Jean Rivier and Olivier Messiaen in Paris in the early 1950s, inheriting a formal elegance which characterised his music ever after, enhanced on this disc by a nocturnal, serenade-like quality. The two song-cycles on this disc – Cân y galon (‘Song of the Heart’), set in Welsh, on aspects of love, and Poésies du soir, which evoke the calm of summer evenings – share the song-writing clarity of Britten, whose early encouragement galvanised Walters’ career as a composer. They enclose the buoyant, Celtic-coloured Little Suite for Flute and Harp, the expansive Violin Sonata and the gentle Berceuse for harp.

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Track No.	Track Title / Details	Duration

	DOWNLOAD COMPLETE ALBUM	68:40

1-5	Cân y galon (Song of the Heart), for soprano and string quartet (1970) Gareth Walters, composer Carolyn Foulkes, soprano London Concertante, ensemble (first recording)	18:15
1	1. ‘Torri Calon’ (‘Heartbreak’)	4:24
2	2. ‘Cân Olwen i Afaon’ (‘Olwen’s Song to Afaon’)	1:58
3	3. ‘Y Garreg’ (‘The Rock’)	3:53
4	4. ‘Llawer Gwaith’ (‘Many a Time’)	2:01
5	5. ‘Cân y Fam i’w Phlentyn’ (‘A Mother’s Song to her Child’)	5:59

6-9	Little Suite for Flute and Harp (1960s) Gareth Walters, composer Sally Pryce, harp Adam Walker, flute (first recording)	10:37
6	I. Allegro	2:25
7	II. Lento	3:30
8	III. Vivo ben ritmico	2:08
9	IV. Allegretto semplice	2:34

10-13	Violin Sonata (1989–96) Gareth Walters, composer Adam Summerhayes, violin Nicola Eimer, piano (first recording)	25:05
10	I. Allegro assai	7:13
11	II. Lento	7:20
12	III. Moderato	3:35
13	IV. Allegro energico	6:57

14	Berceuse for harp (1965) Gareth Walters, composer Sally Pryce, harp (first recording)	2:24

15-17	Poésies du soir (Poems of the Evening), for mezzo soprano and chamber orchestra (1961) Gareth Walters, composer Wendy Dawn Thompson, mezzo soprano London Concertante, ensemble Gregory Rose, conductor (first recording)	12:19
15	1. ‘L’Idéal’ (‘The Ideal’)	3:18
16	2. ‘Promenade sur l’eau’ (‘Promenade on the Water’)	3:13
17	3. ‘Nuit d’été’ (‘Summer Night’)	5:48