This brief piece of four short movements was composed for Parry’s friend, Kitty Wanes (maybe a student) while he was a lecturer in music at University College, Cardiff. Amongst other familiar Welsh tunes, it features the melody from ‘Toriad y Dydd’ in the second movement, ‘Lament’. [This tune is also known as ‘Taliesin’s Prophecy’ in English and tells of Taliesin’s sixth-century prediction referring to the ancient Britons: ‘Their God they shall worship, their language they shall retain, their land they shall lose except wild Wales’.] It is composed in a classical-romantic style and would have been a fine piece for a student to perform in a recital, as it was most likely intended.
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tycerdd June 22nd, 2016
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