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Composer of the Week's 80th anniversary celebrations continue when Donald Macleod meets one of Wales's pre-eminent living composers, Rhian Samuel.

Composer of the Week has been produced in Cardiff since 1999, so it's fitting that Donald is celebrating Welsh composers in this anniversary series. Following on from a live concert given in the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff Bay, with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers, Donald continues the story of Welsh music with programmes featuring music by Grace Williams, Hilary Tann, Morfydd Owen, Dilys Elwyn-Edwards and Rhian Samuel. This quintet of composers were all born in Wales, and much of their music finds inspiration in their Welsh roots. Collectively, their stories will take us from the 1890s to the present day.

In a wide-ranging discussion Donald and Rhian Samuel look back over the many experiences that inform her music, from her early years of playing the oboe at school in Aberdare, in south Wales to further music studies at Reading, and then studying and living for some years in America, where, among her experiences and opportunities, she was invited to sing for the President.

Rhian Samuel: Four-and-a half Dancing Men (A Garland for Anne)
Chenyin Li, piano

Rhian Samuel: Little Duos for oboe and cor anglais
II: Little Whispers
Tailleferre Ensemble

Rhian Samuel: A Perfect View
Gillian Keith, soprano
Simon Lepper, piano

Rhian Samuel: Gaslight Square II for piano duo
Antithesis piano duo

Rhian Samuel: Love Bade me welcome
New College Choir
Robert Quinney, director

Rhian Samuel: Salve nos
Hiyoli Togawa, viola

Rhian Samuel: Time out of Time
III: Twixt Thee and Me
IV: The little boat at its moorings
V: Harmonium
Gemma Rosefield, cello
Simon Lepper, piano

Rhian Samuel: Clytemnestra for female voice and orchestra (excerpts)
II: Lament for his absence
VI: Defiance
VII: Epilogue. Dirge
Ruby Hughes, soprano
´óÏó´«Ã½ National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen, conductor