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Endless Song on the Welsh Portraits CD (at Sain's web site)
Length / Year
7' / 1999
Instrumentation
Solo piano
Performance History
First performance
North Wales Music Festival
20th September 1999
Iwan Llewelyn Jones - piano
First
broadcast performance
BBC Radio 3
21st September 2000
Iwan Llewelyn Jones - piano
London
premiere
Wigmore Hall
25th September 2000
Iwan Llewelyn Jones - piano
Australian
premiere
National Library of Australia
29th October 2000
Suzanne Powell - piano
Other
performances
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2nd October 1999
David Owen Norris - piano
Theatr Ardudwy Harlech
4th October 1999
Catherine Roe-Williams - piano
Chamber Music Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria
22nd March 2000
Angela Tosheva - piano
Theatr Seilo, Caernarfon
4th March 2001
Catherine Roe-Williams - piano
St. Davids Hall, Cardiff
5th June 2001
Llyr Williams - piano
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
23rd July 2001
Andrew Ball - piano
West Wales Arts Centre, Fishguard, Wales
29th September 2001
Iwan Llewelyn Jones - piano
Swansea Festival, Oystermouth Church, Swansea
22nd October 2001
Iwan Llewelyn Jones - piano
North Wales Music Festival
28th September 2002
Llyr Williams - piano
Lampeter Music Club, Lampeter, Wales
11th February 2003
Iwan Llewelyn Jones - piano
Brecon Cathedral, Wales
21st April 2003
Dawn Hardwick - piano
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Programme Note
Endless Song, a short work for solo piano in a single movement, was written
within the space of two days during a happy and productive stay in one
of the artists' studios at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada during
May 1999. Like my string orchestra work Dances
from Forgotten Places it explores aesthetic areas that are not
normally associated with contemporary music, in this instance serenity
and tranquillity. The piece represents a further departure for me since
the opening melody has a strophic feel. Yet despite its apparent simplicity
there are no exact repeats in the work and the simple melody based on
a rocking movement of thirds continues to evolve throughout against a
reiterated patteren of bass notes. The endlessness of the song is given
further meaning in an extended coda.
Endless Song was commissioned by the North Wales
Music Festival with funds made available by the Arts Council of Wales.
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