(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru)

The Flower of the Seven Tears
A Play in One Act by Froom Tyler
Characters:
Don Rafael, a wise man
Matias Valera, a writer of comedies

Listeners will not need to be reminded how the whole tragedy of the cycle of music dramas. 'The Ring of the Nibelungs' hangs on the theft of the gold from the three Rhine maidens who guarded it in the depths of the sacred river. The music in which they sing of their loss, and plead for its return, is among the most beautiful parts of the whole great work.
Even in an arrangement for orchestral performance without voices, it is easy to imagine the scene in which the three maidens appear above the waters singing their wistful, pleading melody.