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Elin Manahan Thomas, Brian Ellsbury - Morfydd Owen: Portrait of a Lost Icon (2017)

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Date: 29 Sep 2021 07:46:08

Elin Manahan Thomas, Brian Ellsbury - Morfydd Owen: Portrait of a Lost Icon (2017)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 304 MB | 01:14:56
Genre: Classical | Label: Ty Cerrd

Morfydd Owen was born in the Welsh valleys in 1891. Like many of her peers she sang and played piano, but it was her precocious talent as a composer – and her beauty – that dazzled audiences in London. Sadly, having met and married within six weeks Freud’s biographer, Ernest Jones, her once-prolific output tapered off, and she died in mysterious circumstances following surgery in 1918, aged just 26.

Inevitably, Owen’s tale is ripe for romantic fantasy as well as regret. But leaving aside the odd tautology of its title, on the basis of this sensitively recorded disc from Ty Cerdd, a recent resurgence of interest in her music proves justified. Pianist and researcher/editor Brian Ellsbury joins forces with Welsh soprano Elin Manahan Thomas to offer a poignant collection of songs and piano pieces spanning Owen’s tantalisingly promising career.

Many of the works have only recently been unearthed, and the E minor Piano Sonata, for example, is patchy juvenilia. However its wild contrasts are honed to quixotic perfection in the songs, which reveal Owen’s expertise in subtly chromatic, sometimes Slavic-tinged vocal miniatures. Best known, but not necessarily most affecting, is the sole Welsh-language example, Gweddi y Pechadur (The Sinner’s Prayer). If Manahan Thomas’s voice is occasionally tremulous, her delivery is passionate, and the combination serves to underscore the paradoxical strength and fragility of Owen herself. – Steph Power

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Track List:

Spring (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
1. Spring 01:05
Mother's Lullaby (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
2. Mother's Lullaby 03:25
The Lamb (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
3. The Lamb 03:08
Talyllyn (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
4. Talyllyn 01:58
Rhapsody in C-Sharp Minor (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
5. Rhapsody in C-Sharp Minor 05:20
Tristesse (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
6. Tristesse 03:34
Maida Vale (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
7. Maida Vale 03:50
Little Eric (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
8. Little Eric 01:00
Glantaf (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
9. Glantaf 02:27
To Our Lady of Sorrows (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
10. To Our Lady of Sorrows 03:02
Prelude in E Minor (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
11. Prelude in E Minor 03:41
4 Flower Songs (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
12. No. 1, Speedwell 02:39
13. No. 2, Daisy's Song 01:22
14. No. 3, To Violets 01:28
15. No. 4, God Made a Lovely Garden 02:18
Gweddi y Pechadur (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
16. Gweddi y Pechadur 06:06
Branwen (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
17. Branwen 02:04
Piano Sonata in E minor (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
18. I. Adagio 06:08
19. II. Allegro vivace 05:08
20. III. Minuet & Trio 04:09
21. IV. Finale 07:16
Piano Quintet (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
22. Chorale for Solo Piano 00:56
The Land of Hush-a-bye (Morfydd Llwyn-Owen)
23. The Land of Hush-a-bye 02:52

Performers:
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Brian Ellsbury (piano)

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