Length / Year
4' / 2000

Instrumentation
SA with harp or piano

Performance History
World Premiere
21st October 2000 - St Ann's Church, Dublin

Version in Welsh
Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion
Cond. Islwyn Evans
Elinor Bennett - Harp

Version in Irish
Cór na n-Og RTÉ
Cond. Blanaid Murphy
Elinor Bennett - Harp

Subsequent performances
27th October 2000 - St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire

Version in Welsh
Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion
Cond. Islwyn Evans
Elinor Bennett - Harp

Version in Irish
Cór na n-Og RTÉ Cond. Blanaid Murphy
Elinor Bennett - Harp

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
22nd June 2001

Version in Welsh
Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion
Cond. Islwyn Evans
Elinor Bennett - Harp

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Programme Note
The chapel of Sant Govan in Pembrokeshire and stories about the Saint have inspired this short poem by Menna Elfyn. The words speak for themselves, gentle, crystalline and concentrated - a gift for any composer. The collaboration was a delight. Subsequently, I also had the pleasure of corresponding and working with the Irish poet Michael Coady and I thank him for preparing the Irish version - OSCAILT. A quote from the last stanza of Menna Elfyn's poem seems appropriate: " Croeso rhwng dwy ynys . . . "

Grateful thanks finally to Myles Pepper who initiated these collaborations and to Celtic Connections who commissioned the work.

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