Morfudd - Three Welsh Songs by Patrick Hawes for solo soprano and piano. First performed as part of the 'Concerts at the Crossroads' series on 2 June 2012 in Beulah United Reformed Church Rhiwbina Cardiff by Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) and John Reid (piano).

Sleep On takes pride of place on Hayley Westenra's album Hushabye (Decca cat no: 4810351) written by Paul Mealor and dedicated to the Royal Baby.This Vocal Score for Sleep On includes the Soprano Vocal line and Piano accompaniment.

This work When Christ Was Born of Mary Free sets the words of a traditional carol dating from the 15th century sensitively in D minor for the verse moving to a more joyous F for the Chorus. Darke’s papers list this piece as having been scored for Soprano solo Chorus SATB and Piano. Harold E Darke was an English composer and Organist of international renown. Darke composed extensively for choir and Organ. In 1916 he established the Monday lunchtime Organ recitals at St Michael’s Cornhill which continue to this day the longest-running such series in the world. His setting of Christina Rosetti’s poem In the Bleak Midwinter created a melody and lilting Organ accompanimentthat has never fallen from favour. It is regarded as one of the greatest of Christmas carols.

Written for the soprano Laura Wright this is an arrangement of the traditional folk song The Ash Grove.The Ash Grove by Patrick Hawes is from the album The Last Rose which went to No. 1 in the classical charts.

With words from Robert Burns and Music by Thea Musgrave A Winter's Morning was written for Dennis Stevenson.

Between Eternity And Time by Paul Mealor was commissioned by Irene Drummond with funds provided by the Scottish Arts Council and first performed by her with Alasdair Beatson (piano) at King’s College Chapel Aberdeen on 6 November 2008.

This work was commissioned by the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts Ltd. with theaid of funds provided by the John S. Cohen Foundation and the PRS Foundation. The firstperformance was given by Rachel Nicholls and Paul Plummer at St. Andrew’s Church Presteigne on 29 August 2005.Composer's NoteGladestry Quatrains is a setting of 12 short poems by Jo Shapcott from her collection of the same title. It originated in a project for the 2003 Presteigne Festival called A Garland for Presteigne in which 10 composers associated with the Festival were asked to write a short song each celebrating the Welsh border country the choice of poetryranged widely and I chose two of Jo Shapcott’s evocative miniatures (still adding up to slightly less than the timing I had been requested to provide!). As I wrote them I started to make sketches for some more settings from the same collection and the Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts very kindly commissioned this new larger song-cycle proper for their 2005 Festival. The original pair of poems form the third (Gwaithla Brook) and last (Cefn Hir) of the songs in which the eighth combines two poems Burl Hill and Newchurch. Throughout I have been aware of the sights and sounds of nature the character of the landscape and the sense of history and timelessness of this beautiful part of the world as reflected in Jo Shapcott’s poetry as well as (I hope) the wit and directness of her expression. The whole work though it has eleven songs still lasts only about 20 minutes the concision of the texts and the need to find musical equivalents to this was an important part of the concept of the piece.        John McCabe 2005