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Song of the Heart
Walters, Foulkes, Pryce
Song of the Heart
Genre: Classical
 
Welsh composer Gareth Walters (b. 1928) studied with Jean Rivier and Olivier Messiaen in Paris in the early 1950s, inheriting a formal elegance which has characterized his music ever since, enhanced on this disc by a noctu...  more »

     
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All Artists: Walters, Foulkes, Pryce, Summerhayes, Eimer
Title: Song of the Heart
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Toccata
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 1/13/2009
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5060113440907

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Welsh composer Gareth Walters (b. 1928) studied with Jean Rivier and Olivier Messiaen in Paris in the early 1950s, inheriting a formal elegance which has characterized his music ever since, enhanced on this disc by a nocturnal, serenade-like quality. The two song-cycles here--Cân y galon (Song of the Heart), set in Welsh, on aspects of love, and Poésies du soir, evoking the calm of summer evenings--share the songwriting clarity of Benjamin Britten, whose early encouragement galvanized Walters' career as a composer. They enclose the buoyant, Celtic-colored Little Suite for Flute and Harp, the expansive Violin Sonata, and the gentle Berceuse for harp.