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Donald Macleod concludes Composer of the Week's 80th anniversary celebrations with a focus on the work of Hilary Tann, who died unexpectedly earlier this year. We also hear from a younger generation of Welsh composers, with music by Sarah Lianne Lewis and Eloise Gynn.

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.

Donald Macleod and conductor and pianist David Wordsworth, who was Hilary Tann's publisher for many years, discuss the diverse elements of Tann's musical inspiration. Tann was born in Ferndale in the Welsh valleys in 1947, and this selection of music, curated by Welsh music historian Rhian Davies, reflects Tann's deep connection with the land of her birth, its landscape and its poetry, her fascination and deep knowledge of Japan and its culture, and her appreciation of her adopted home in America, where she lived for many years in the foothills of the Adinrondack mountains on the east coast.

Hilary Tann: From the Song of Amergin (excerpt)
Matthew Featherstone, flute
Rosalind Ventris, viola
Anneke Hoddnett, harp

Hilary Tann: Nothing Forgotten
I: Andante maestoso
Sini Virtanen, violin
Andrew Barnhart, cello
Eunmi Ko, pianist

Sarah Lianne Lewis: All my ships are white
´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers
Ellie Slorach, conductor
Libby Burgess, piano

Eloise Gynn: Kingfisher
´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers
Ellie Slorach, conductor
Libby Burgess, piano

Hilary Tann: Llef for flute and cello (excerpt)
Christiane Meininger, flute
Françoise Groben, cello

Hilary Tann: Shakkei
II: Leggiero
Virginia Shaw, oboe
The North South Chamber Orchestra
Max Lifchitz, conductor

Hilary Tann: Water's Edge
II: From the Riverbed
The North South Chamber Orchestra
Max Lifchitz, conductor

Hilary Tann: Seven poems of stillness
I: The air a staircase for silence (Kneeling)
Guy Johnson, cello
RS Thomas, narration

Hilary Tann: In the First, Spinning Place
Concerto for alto saxophone and wind orchestra
I: Down the rivers of the windfall light
II: The pebbles of the holy streams
iii: IN the first spinning place
Debra Richtmeyer, saxophone
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kirk Trevor, conductor

Producer: Johannah Smith