Grace Williams - Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes • Carillons for Oboe & Orchestra • Penillion* • Trumpet Concerto • Sea Sketches for string orchestra**

Anthony Camden, oboe
Howard Snell, trumpet
London Symphony Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra*
English Chamber Orchestra**
Sir Charles Groves, conductor
David Atherton, conductor**

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 1995 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.323
UPC/EAN: 5020926032324
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 69.45
Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

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"...[a] special, and potentially disconcerting, feature of Williams’s work is the confrontation it seems to relish between modest forms and richly-scored textures which – if only briefly – open up unexpectedly grand vistas. Even in a work as emotionally straightforward as the Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes a full-throated romanticism emerges which can seem incongruous in an age that prefers to treat such material more sceptically… In the sphere of instrumental music Williams never surpassed the polished yet strongly felt Sea Sketches in which …one hears echoes of her friend Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge" Arnold Wittall, Gramophone


1 Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes Grace Williams 11.03
Carillons for Oboe & Orchestra Grace Williams 10.31
2 1. Moderato con moto 3.25
3 2. Allegretto alla pavana 1.58
4 3. Lento rapsodico 1.37
5 4. Allegro scherzando 3.31
Penillion Grace Williams 15.49
6 1. Moderato cantando 4.43
7 2. Allegro con fuoco 2.00
8 3. Andante con tristezza 5.24
9 4. Allegro agitato 3.42
Concerto for Trumpet Grace Williams 13.27
10 1. Andante con moto 5.18
11 2. Poco lento 4.27
12 3. Allgro con brio 3.42
Sea Sketches for string orchestra Grace Williams 18.55
13 1. High Wind 3.28
14 2. Sailing Song 2.14
15 3. Channel Sirens 4.30
16 4. Breakers 2.26
17 5. Calm Sea in Summer 6.17