Recent publications Hoddinott

String Trio Taliesin

Hughes Fantasia for Strings Gloria Patri Tydi a’i Roddaist

Milton Clarinet Sonata

Painter Lunar Seas Spring of Vision Symphony No.3 Syn iadau’r Serch

Reynolds Dumpe Tango

Tippett The Monk Watches the Eagle

Williams Ballads Missa Cambrensis Rhiannon Symphony No.1 Symphony No.2

Grace Williams has been, until now,represented in published form only by avery few of her works whilst others, including her most substantial andimportant contributions, haveremained only in manuscript.

The three organisations, together with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales,Owain Arwel Hughes, Bangor University and Graeme Cotterill (the Bangor PhD student who has prepared many ofGrace William's works for this firstedition), have worked hard to returnher finest scores to the public domain,both in printed and recorded forms,allowing all interested parties to freelystudy and perform her music for the first time.

Oriana to represent all the works of Arwel Hughes Oriana Publications are delighted toannounce that they now represent allthe works of Arwel Hughes. This not onlyrepresents a significant addition to ourcatalogue in terms of works but alsoadds one of Wales’s most importantcomposers of the twentieth century toour list which already includes MervynBurtch, Alun Hoddinott, Grace Williams,and David Wynne.

Born in 1909, Arwel Hughes waseducated at Ruabon Grammar Schoolnear Wrexham and at the RoyalCollege of Music, where he studiedwith Vaughan Williams and C. H. Kitson.

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March 1st 2010 saw the launch of theGrace Williams Centenary Edition, anongoing collaboration between OrianaPublications, Ty Cerdd and the WelshMusic Guild.

The launch, held appropriately in theGrace Williams Studio at BBC HoddinottHall in Cardiff Bay, featuredcontributions from some of Wales’sleading Welsh music scholars as well asreminiscences by those who hadknown the composer personally andculminated in a formal presentation ofthe full score of the Missa Cambrensisto Grace Williams’ niece, ErylFreestone, by Owain Arwel Hugheswho has recently broadcast the neweditions of both symphonies.

Grace Williams Centenary Edition launched

Arwel Hughes

Eryl Freestone andOwain Arwel Hugheswith the full score ofMissa Cambrensis,

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Following his studies at the RCM hebecame organist at the church of StPhilip and St James, Oxford, and in1935 returned to Wales to join the staffof the BBC’s music department.

He became Head of Music of BBCWales in 1965, a post he held with greatesteem until his retirement in 1971.

He was appointed OBE in 1969 for hisservices to Welsh music and fororganising the music for the Investitureof the Prince of Wales in the same year.

Arwel Hughes died in Cardiff onSeptember 23, 1988.

Sala Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico City Alun Francis Vernon Watkins

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Claire Booth

Alun Hoddinott (1929-2008) Landscapes - Song Cycles and Folksongs World Première Recordings Landscapes (Ynys Môn) Op.87 Two Songs from Glamorgan (Traditional) The Silver Hound Op.121 One Must Always Have Love Op.152 No.3 Towy Landscape Op.190 Six Welsh Folksongs (Traditional) BMS437CD

Alun Hoddinott – new publications and recordings Oriana have now published studyscores of Alun Hoddinott’s String TrioOp.1 and his last orchestral work,Taliesin.

On September 1st the British MusicSociety released “Landscapes –Song Cycles and Folksongs” a CD ofvocal music by Alun Hoddinott.

This recording has been a labour oflove for all the performersconcerned - Claire Booth (soprano),Nicky Spence (tenor), Jeremy HuwWilliams (baritone), Michael Pollockand Andrew Matthews-Owen(piano) – and features several worldpremiere recordings includingAlun’s penultimate vocal work,Towy Landscape.

To coincide with the release of thisCD, Oriana Publications will bepublishing the score of TowyLandscape (£15.95) and alsooffering a limited edition (150),printed-to-order, large format hardbound score priced at £50.

Fire in the Snow premiere in Mexico Christopher Painter’s Symphony No.3 “Fire in theSnow” received its world premiere on June 19th at theSala Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico City by the OrquestaFilharmonico de la UNAM conducted by Alun Franciswho has done much to champion both Painter’sworks and those of other Welsh composers.

This substantial work, totaling fifty minutes, received astanding ovation from the capacity audience of 2600with the composer being twice called back to thestage. The work received its second performance on20th June, again at the Sala Nezahualcóyotl and to acapacity audience, and was broadcast live to anestimated audience of 5 million people across thewhole of Mexico.

Written following the deaths of both his mentor andlong time friend, Alun Hoddinott and of Painter’scousin Peter (just two weeks later) the symphony is apersonal journey from despair to creative rebirth andtakes as its starting point Vernon Watkins’ poem “Firein the Snow”.

Symphony No.3 “Fire in the Snow”

Duration: 50 minutes

Scoring: 3(2=alto; 3=piccolo) 2+1 2+1 2+1 | 4 4 3 1 |T+4perc | Hp Pno/Cel | stgs

Study score: £24.95 (A4, spiral bound, card covers)

Full score & performing material: Available on Hire

Simon Milton was born in Penzance, Cornwall, in 1977. He graduated fromthe Welsh College of Music and Drama, obtaining a BA Hons, and studiedcomposition with John Pickard. Michael Collins recently conducted the world premiere of Five Miniatures forDouble Wind Quintet by the Southbank Sinfonia. Other recent performancesinclude St. Ives Harbour, a sketch for orchestra by the Cornwall YouthOrchestra, Sorbet! Sorbet! at the WEM11 festival, Var, France, incollaboration with Veronique Souberbielle, with a text by Bernard Turle,performed by Midsummer Opera. Fallen Idols (triptych for Tenor andOrchestra), Fanfare for Verdi Brass, and Tyranny of Distance (Essay fororchestra No.1), performed by the orchestra of Midsummer Opera,conducted by David Roblou. Michael Collins gave the first performance ofTivoli (a concertante work for Clarinet and String Orchestra with Piano andBells), in April 2007 with the Southbank Sinfonia. Michael Collins gave the premiere of Simon’s arrangement of Mozart’sConcerto in E flat K 268, originally for Violin, with the Academy of St Martin inthe Fields in Glasgow in November 2008. Oriana has recently published Simon’s Clarinet Sonata which was written for,and premiered by, Michael Collins and is shortly to be released on theChandos label.

Simon Milton

Christopher Painter and Peter Reynolds are both to have new works included onthe new CD “These Visions” by the Lunar Saxophone Quartet which is to bereleased in November by Signum Classics.

Painter’s Lunar Seas and Reynold’s Head of Brass will also be performed at thefollowing concerts which constitute the “These Visions” tour:

1st October 2010 - 1pm @ Leeds University (Clothworkers Hall)

5th November 2010 - 7.30pm @ Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

9th November 2010 - 7.30pm @ Lampeter Music Club (Lampeter University)

11th November 2010 - 7.30pm @ Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

12th November 2010 - 7.30pm @ Ucheldre Centre, Holyhead

13th November 2010 - 7.30pm @ Y Tabernacl, Machynlleth

24th November 2010 - 7pm @ Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

25th November 2010 - 7.30pm @ The Forge, Camden, London

21st January 2011 - 7.30pm @ The Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare

22nd January 2011 - 7.30pm @ Neuadd Dwyfor, Pwllheli

25th January 2011 - 1pm @ St. Donats, Vale of Glamorgan

25th March 2011 - 7.30pm @ Galeri, Caernarfon

Two Oriana composers included on new Signum CD

Simon Milton

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THE FURNACE OF COLOURS - Remembering Alun Hoddinott , published by the Welsh Music Guild is now available directly from Oriana Publications at a cost of £7.50 plus £2.25 postage and package. All proceeds from this sixty page book of tributes, reminiscences, photographs and articles will be divided between the Welsh Music Guild and the Alun Hoddinott Trust

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Oriana Publications are pleased to announce that Christopher Painter is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Tlws y Cerddor (Musician’s Medal) at the 2010 Blaenau Gwent Eisteddfod. The medal was presented during a ceremony in the Eisteddfod’s main pavilion on Tuesday evening and was awarded for his composition for baritone, violin and harp entitled Syniadau’r Serch (Thoughts on Love), an eight minute cycle of songs based on texts taken from the Hen Benillion and dealing with the joy, sorrow, the loss, pain, disappointment, remembrance and eternity of love. The work is presented to everyone who loves, has loved, is looking for love or has been loved. Speaking from the stage, judge Geraint Lewis said: “This is a composer who is totally self-assured when choosing his musical medium, a composer who naturally understands how to set words to music. This is chamber music at its best, and he wins this year’s Musicians Medal with great praise.” 2010 has proved to be a very good year for Christopher with the very successful premiere of his Symphony No.3 “Fire in the Snow” in Mexico City, the premiere of Spring of Vision by Clara Biss (violin); Robin Michael (cello) and Katie Lockhart (clarinet) at the Machynlleth Festival, the premiere and release on CD of Lunar Seas by the Lunar Saxophone Quartet and the publication of The Broken Sea, commissioned by Timothy Reynish and first performed by the Wind Orchestra of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (where Christopher has taught composition since 2001) by Maecenas Music and its scheduled USA premiere in the Autumn of 2010. To crown the year, Christopher has been commissioned to write a fanfare to mark the 30th anniversary of the Wales Festival of Remembrance. This fanfare will receive its premiere at the opening of this year’s festival at St. David’s Hall when it will be played by the Band of the Royal Welsh. The fanfare, entitled Fidelity, will be used in subsequent years to open the festival. Christopher is unlikely to have a quieter time in 2011with the first performance of Furnace of Colours scheduled for March 9th. This song-cycle to texts by Vernon Watkins has been commissioned by the BBC for soprano Claire Booth and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Jac van Steen (who last year gave the UK premier of Forest of Dreams at Hoddinott Hall with BBC NOW) and will be performed at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff and broadcast live on Radio 3. The performance will be particularly poignant for Christopher as it comes just two days before the third anniversary of the death of his great friend and mentor, Alun Hoddinott, and in the venue dedicated to his memory. Later in 2011, the Welsh Chamber Orchestra will premiere his Violin Concerto “The Veil of Heaven” with Alexandra Wood as soloist, Nicky Spence (tenor) and Andrew Matthews-Owen (piano) will premiere a song-cycle to texts by the Very Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and finally, so far, Claire Booth and Andrew Matthews-Owen with premiere a cycle of songs based on the Taliesin poems of Vernon Watkins.

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Christopher Painter honoured at National Eisteddfod

Christopher Painter receiving the Tlws y Cerddor for the first time at the Faenol Eisteddod in 2005.

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