The Harp of Wales

David John Roche: The Harp of Wales for Solo Guitar performed by David John Roche

This track was submitted as part of NMC's Big Lockdown Music Survey. You can find more information about this on the NMC Website - https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/big-lockdown-music-survey

David John Roche: The Harp of Wales

This is compilation nr. 6 out of 7 - focusing on positive music therapy through music from different regions of the world. The music and poetry is everything from centuries to decades old lyrics reviwed and modern artist recordings. The composition of the playlist has a structure that follows a linear structure. So start the playlist, close your eyes and enjoy. 

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Structured improvisation – duo (Callahan - prepared guitar, processing; Desmet - electronics, loops)




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Episode 2 / Season 1 : A little girl learns piano while the other children play. She imagines herself becoming a great concert performer. The other children are making a snowman. The little girl loses her father. She still plays the piano. A funeral in the city. Children always play in the snow.

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Please, put the volume really up from the very beginning :)

Salvatore Sciarrino - Il legno e la parola

Meditation On G

Halo Reach OST - Winter Contingency

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David John Roche’s music is direct, determined, and loud. Strongly influenced by heavy metal, lush orchestral music, and his working-class Welsh background, he has been marked out as a “clear-minded and class-conscious artist” (Culture Matters) and “one of the most energetic, driven, and successful of Wales’s millennial generation of composers” (Tŷ Cerdd). David’s work has been described as “exquisite” (Adam Walton, BBC Introducing Wales), praised for its “ingenious scoring” (The Arts Desk), and complimented for its “passages of intense expressive power” (Thomas Adès). His compositions have been broadcast, televised, and written about internationally to millions of people.

A string of international performances and commissions form the backbone of David’s work: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Florence Philharmonic, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, Psappha Ensemble, and the Solem Quartet, among others.  David has been nominated for an award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been the recipient of an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Grant and a Lithuanian Arts Council grant. He has just completed an electric guitar concerto for Sean Shibe, Sinfonia Cymru, and Britten Sinfonia, and he is currently finishing his first symphony-length work for orchestra, funded by Aberystwyth University, Tŷ Cerdd, and the Arts Council of Wales.

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David John Roche: The Harp of Wales

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