Conductors, Sir DAN GODFREY and STANLEY WILSON
Relayed from the Pavilion, Bournemouth
This work is founded upon a poem entitled ' Gwyn-ap-Nudd ', by T. E. Ellis (Lord Howard de Walden). An old Cambrian legend, it speaks of the love of Gwyn-ap-Nudd (King of Faerie) for Cordelia, the daughter of Lear, for whom he fights with Gwythyr and Greidawl on every first of May till the day of doom. The following quotations give the key to each movement:
No. 1.—Allegro
' Open the gates of mirrored horn !
Summon the hosts of pool and lawn'
No. 2.—Adagio
' Clotted of shadows he comes to my hest
A fiery eyed phantom
No. 3.—Molto fuoco
' Blade that meets hlade with never a sound,
Horses that shall leave not a print on the ground '
The work is in the usual symphonic form, and a new cadenza has been added since the work first appeared and was performed under Sir Dan Godfrey by the composer in 1906. It is one of Holbrooke's best known works.