Saturday 22 October 2022 4:30PM

Harriet Burns soprano; Ailish Tynan soprano; Elgan Llŷr Thomas tenor; Robin Tritschler tenor; Adam Walker flute; Rosalind Ventris viola; Ian Tindale piano

Ludlow English Song Day: 'Hiraeth': Celtic perspectives

Duration

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

£16concs£14

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Harriet Burns soprano
Ailish Tynan soprano
Elgan Llŷr Thomas tenor
Robin Tritschler tenor
Adam Walker flute
Rosalind Ventris viola
Ian Tindale piano

In Welsh, the term ‘hiraeth’ denotes a complex idea combining homesickness with a longing for the past, here explored in works by composers of various Celtic origins.

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
- - An Irish Idyll in 6 Miniatures Op. 77
    - Back to Ireland
Dorothy Parke (1904-1990)
- - Song in Exile
Hamilton Harty (1879-1941)
- - 6 Songs of Ireland Op. 18
    - Lookin' Back
Philip Hammond (b.1951)
- - The Blackbird's Poet
Dilys Elwyn-Edwards (1918-2012)
- - Caneuon y Tri Aderyn (Songs of the Three Birds)
    - Y Gylfinir (The Curlew)
Joan Trimble (1915-2000)
- - Green Rain
Rhian Samuel (b.1944)
- - Summer's Leave
Dilys Elwyn-Edwards
- - A Fairy Hunt
Francis George Scott (1880-1958)
- - Hungry Waters
Havelock Nelson (1917-1996)
- - Dirty Work
Judith Weir (b.1954)
- - Scotch Minstrelsy
    - Bessie Bell and Mary Gray
    - Lady Isobel and the Elf-Knight
Francis George Scott
- - Ay waukin, O
Jonathan Nangle (b.1981)
- - Snáth (Yarn)
    - Snáth (Yarn)
Dilys Elwyn-Edwards
- - The Cloths of Heaven
Joan Trimble
- - Girl's Song
Francis George Scott
- - The Wee Man
Morfydd Owen (1891-1918)
- - William
Ina Boyle (1889-1967)
- - Himself and his Fiddle
Charles Wood (1866-1926)
- - Denny's Daughter
  - Echo
Trad/Welsh
- - Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night)
    - (arranged by Huw Watkins)