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Composer of the Week: Grace Williams

on BBC Radio 3

2/5. As Wales itself is a place strongly associated with the innate lyricism of language, it is no surprise that voices haunt the music of Grace Williams. Today, in conversation with musicologists Heward Rees and Rhiannon Mathias , and the composer's niece
Eryl Freestone , Donald Macleod looks at some of the Welsh voices and characters that find their way into Williams's work. Jim Cro
Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
The Dancers Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano),
Caryl Thomas (harp), Richard Hickox Singers,
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox Ve Highlands and Ye Lowlands
BBC Singers, Stephen Betteridge (piano), conductor Ronald Corp
Penillion Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Charles Groves
Mari Lwyd BBC Singers, Stephen Betteridge (piano), conductor Ronald Corp Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Musicologists:
Heward Rees
Musicologists:
Rhiannon Mathias
Unknown:
Eryl Freestone
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Baritone:
Jeremy Huw Williams
Piano:
Iain Burnside
Dancers:
Eiddwen Harrhy
Harp:
Caryl Thomas
Harp:
Richard Hickox
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Singers:
Stephen Betteridge
Conductor:
Ronald Corp
Conductor:
Charles Groves
Conductor:
Mari Lwyd
Singers:
Stephen Betteridge

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