Relayed from the National Museum of Wales

National Orchestra of Wales

Of this little orchestral piece, composed about ten years ago, Howells has said, 'Though written to an imaginary scene, it little matters what particular "picture" is in the listener's mind, so there be a picture. It would seem, however, that airy Puck takes strange and ill-sorted companions for the dance-perhaps a Falstaff among them?'
(to 12.45)