more to come re: alternate future history

Exodus

Unified North

City Sunrise / BOOT SEQUENCE

The largest single settlement in the Northern Collective territories; a true city that never sleeps

Central North

Central Skyline

track for the writing, but also for the fellas

Radiant

About the composer:
Gareth Glyn (b. 1951) is an Anglesey composer, who works in many genres.  Among his many compositions are a symphony, several concertos, and the opera Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd which toured Wales in 2017 with Ensemble Cymru as the orchestra.

About the piece:
This suite depicts the Four Winds of Greek mythology: Euros, who made flames leap heavenwards; Notos, whose breath moved ships; Zephyros, who fanned fruitful gardens; and Boreas, who challenged the Sun – and lost. 

Listen out for:
The first three movements highlight one section of the ensemble in turn - strings, woodwind and harp.

Ynglŷn â’r cyfansoddwr:
Cyfansoddwr o Fôn yw Gareth Glyn (g. 1951), sy’n gweithio mewn nifer o ffurfiau cerddorol.  Ymhlith ei gyfansoddiadau niferus mae symffoni, sawl consierto, a’r opera Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd a deithiodd drwy Gymru yn 2017, gydag Ensemble Cymru’n gerddorfa. 

Ynglŷn â’r darn:
Mae’r gyfres hon yn portreadu’r Pedwar Gwynt o fytholeg yr hen Roeg: Ewros, a barodd i fflamau lamu i’r awyr; Notos, a symudodd longau gyda’i anadl; Zephyros, a feginodd erddi ffrwythlon; a Boreas, a heriodd yr Haul mewn gornest – a cholli. 

Gwrandewch am:
Mae’r tri symudiad cyntaf yn rhoi’r lle blaenaf i un adran o’r ensemble yn eu tro – llinynnau, chwythbrennau a thelyn.

Boreas , Gwynt y Gogledd (the North Wind)

Zephyros, Gwynt y Gorllewin (the West Wind)

Euros, Gwynt y Dwyrain (the East Wind)

Notos, Gwynt y De (the South Wind)

ginger; bread man
placeholder pics for each track til i can be arsed to draw again

Gareth Glyn was born in Machynlleth, mid-Wales, in 1951, but has lived since 1978 on Anglesey, an island whose history, mythology and landscape have been important influences on his work as a composer, as has his Welsh identity.

His works were first broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation while he was studying music at Merton College, Oxford.

His compositions have been commissioned and played by eminent orchestras and ensembles and bands, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, The BBC Scottish Orchestra, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, the Ulster Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, I Musici de Montréal and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, and soloists including Bryn Terfel, Catrin Finch and Charlotte Church.

His many works for choirs of all kinds are sung all over the world, and he is particularly eminent in the field of male voice choirs – his Clychau’r Gog/Bluebells recently went into its 4th printing, and Heriwn, Wynebwn y Wawr/The Future’s Beginning Today is widely regarded as one of the best original Welsh choral pieces of the last fifty years.

His output includes orchestral, chamber, solo instrumental and vocal works, musicals, songs and song-cycles for professionals, amateurs and children, music for brass band and large-scale works for orchestra, narrators, actors and audience-participation; he has worked widely with leading orchestras in many parts of the world providing specialist works like EGAD! and Strings on the Wing, which can be performed by players of many different abilities simultaneously – from absolute beginners to concert soloists.

Gareth Glyn’s work is widely published (Spartan, Gwynn, Curiad, Adlais, Alaw, Chanterelle) and recorded (principally on ASV/Universal, Sain and Laserlight).

Gareth Glyn received an Honorary Fellowship from Bangor University, and the rank of Honorary Druid in the National Eisteddfod’s Gorsedd of Bards, for his services to music in Wales.

New tracks tagged #Boreas