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Title theme music for Welsh crime drama Hinterland / Y Gwyll, broadcast on S4C and BBC Wales in 2013 and BBC Four in 2014. Stars Richard Harrington.

By John Hardy Music - hear more at http://www.johnhardymusic.net/

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Hinterland / Y Gwyll - Title Theme

Orovela (clip)

The new idents for S4C, as part of the national Welsh TV broadcaster's biggest branding refresh in 7 years. 
Music by John Hardy Music.

Cafe (long version)

Forestry (short version)

Gymnastics (long version)

Swimming (long version)

Population Wave

Music for Andrew Marr's Great Scots (BBC Two) by John Hardy Music


Boswell And Johnson

Caledonia

The Persians - Fanfare

Hidden Gardens - Title Theme

Galesa: NINE

Galesa: FOUR

"Iliad is certainly the theatrical event of the year. It may be the theatrical event of the decade." - THE GUARDIAN
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ILIAD: Aphrodite

ILIAD: Page 83

"An astonishing work of cultural memory... this is installation theatre at its best... savage and beautiful, this is National Theatre Wales as a true national theatre" - THE TIMES

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{150} Eluned Morgan Eddie Ladd Soundscape [With Ticks]

{150} Dance Soundscape [Harmonium 02]

{150} - Close Harmonium 04 (Tractor And Dogs)

{150} Crug Y Bar Soundscape (Shortened)

Preview of all four tracks in John Hardy's Blue Letters from Tanganyika.

Blue Letters from Tanganyika is a suite for orchestra commissioned by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and performed many times following popular demand from early audiences. Regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3, the music has been released on CD and MP3 download by Ffin Records.

Blue Letters from Tanganyika is a bright, energetic piece inspired by the adventures of a young woman travelling in East Africa: John's mother.

During nearly 2 years spent overseeing schools in an area of Tanzania the size of England, she wrote over 70 letters home describing wild animal encounters, exotic landscapes and countless tales of danger, bravery and the ‘everyday life’ of a totally unfamiliar environment.

Forty years after her return, her son John Hardy was commissioned by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to write this piece, which they performed at 5 concerts and broadcast several times on BBC Radio 3.

Full of exuberant African colours, this beautiful recording by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Grant Llewellyn captures an exotic world of sweltering wild terrain, dangerous journeys through lion country and the calm of twilight over the great lake. 

Blue Letters From Tanganyika (clips)

Clip from John Hardy's choral work De Profundis (On Martyrdom), a 15 minute piece commissioned to end a special concert in Westminster Abbey by the Westminster Abbey Choir, The BBC Singers, and London Brass, augmented by extra percussion, piano, harp & organ and conducted by Martin Baker.

De Profundis (clip)

Alone in the Wilderness (preview)

The Deep Beneath (preview)

Preview of all ten tracks from the album 'Pax' by performance group Brith Gof. Music by John Hardy with the Brith Gof orchestra, words by Lis Hughes Jones. 

Three singers with violin, three violas, guitar, double bass/bass guitar, three percussionists, keyboards, tapes, samples and live electronics.

Pax is an exploration of the way in which change can affect related people separated by location and experience. Designed for site-specific performance, Pax has been staged at St. David's Hall in Cardiff, the Harland and Wolff shipbuilding yard in Glasgow and the British Rail Station in Aberystwyth. It has been described by the Guardian as a "heady mix of grand opera, performance art, physical theatre, symphonic rock, scenography and, crucially, a forceful green message"

Preview: Brith Gof - Pax

The BAFTA winning soundtrack by John Hardy Music for Y Pris (The Price), an award-winning drama following the roller-coaster lives of gangsters in South-West Wales.

John Hardy and Rob Love of Alabama 3 were awarded the 2007 BAFTA Cymru for Best Original Music for Y Pris. In March 2009 the first series of Y Pris won the award for best Drama Series at the 30th Celtic Media Festival.

Preview: Y Pris Soundtrack (all tracks)

Originally featured in crime drama 'Hinterland / Y Gwyll' (Series 3 / Episode 1).

Written by John Hardy, Tic Ashfield, Samuel Barnes & Benjamin Talbott.

Final Decision (Hinterland / Y Gwyll - Series 3)

Originally featured in crime drama 'Hinterland / Y Gwyll' (Series 3 / Episode 2).

Written by John Hardy, Tic Ashfield, Samuel Barnes & Benjamin Talbott.

New Evidence (Hinterland / Y Gwyll - Series 3)

Not Darkness But Twilight is a choral piece by John Hardy, setting words by R.S. Thomas.

The piece was first performed by the BBC National Chorus of Wales conducted by Adrian Partington at St David's Cathedral Festival in Pembrokeshire, Wales and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

The work is around 20 minutes long and is scored for choir, organ, harp and percussion. The prelude sets words from Y Gododdin, the epic 7th century Welsh poem attributed to Aneirin)

Not Darkness But Twilight (clips)

Clips from Hedd Wyn, the oscar-nominated biopic about the life of a promising poet.

Find out more at http://www.johnhardymusic.net/projects/film/project17/hedd-wyn.html

First Prize (clip)

Extracts from Flowers, the opera by John Hardy from the play "Flowers of the Dead Red Sea" by Ed Thomas.

Find out more at http://www.johnhardymusic.net/projects/performance1/project36/flowers.html

Flowers - Scene 1 extract

Flowers - Scene 9 extract

From the soundtrack by John Hardy for BBC Two documentary 'Isaac Newton: The Last Magician'

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