Alun Hoddinott: Poetry of Earth

Hoddinott's arrangements are delightful and the songs are superbly sung and accompanied. — Gramophone Magazine, February 2006

Catalogue No: SCD2484
Label: Sain

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Hoddinott: Poetry of the Earth

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: On the grasshopper and the cricket

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: The Snail

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: I had a dove

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: The boy and the bird

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: To nature

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: Tempi

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: Elegy, Op. 18, No. 3

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: The Cloud

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: Gift of Life

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: To the Poet

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: The Flower

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: To Anna Kern

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: Ap Siencyn

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: Dadl Dau

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: Ffarwel Fo I Langyfelach Lon

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: Ym Mhontypridd

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: Tra Bo Dau

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

Hoddinott: Wennaf Wen

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Catrin Finch (harp), Nigel Foster (piano)

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Alun Hoddinott has acute sensitivity in selecting poetry and prose for setting to music. During a long and enriching career he has composed for some of the most notable voices of our time. Since 1991, Alun has enjoyed working with a number of singers and instrumentalists of the young generation and prominent among them is the baritone Jeremy Huw Williams. His flexible voice and extraordinary textual insight have inspired a series of special works ober the last decade or more.

The present CD contains contrasted examples – a cycle for voice and harp settings deliciously varied group of poems under the title Poetry of Earth; a cycle for voice and piano celebrating the bicentenary in 1999 of the birth of Russia’s Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin, in resonant translations; and a dexterous collection of folk-song settings full of memorable touches. Over the years Hoddinott has also written for a number of our finest harpists – Osian Ellis, Elinor Bennett, Ieuan Jones and Manon Morris. His second harp sonata “Tempi” was composed for Manon in 1997 and it exploits every possible example of the harp’s technique. The folk-song composer enjoyed himself hugley in so doing!

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February 2006

Hoddinott's arrangements are delightful and the songs are superbly sung and accompanied.

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