a. CDS WHICH INCLUDE ANTHOLOGIES OF RHIAN SAMUEL'S WORKS:
1. RHIAN SAMUEL: LIGHT AND WATER
Deux-Elles DXL1128 www.deux-elles.co.uk
This recording succeeds on two counts, being both a rounded ‘composer portrait’ and a show-case for some young musicians.
Peter Palmer, Tempo Vol. 62, Issue 244, April 2008
George Hall, The Independent on Sunday, 9 December 2007
2. SONG/LIED/CÂN: VOCAL MUSIC BY RHIAN SAMUEL AND CLARA SCHUMANN
Tŷ Cerdd Records TCR027 www.tycerddshop.com
Tŷ Cerdd Records TCR027 www.tycerddshop.com
3. SONGS OF EARTH AND AIR: THE VOCAL WORKS OF RHIAN SAMUEL
Lorelt Records, LNT 146 www.lorelt.co.uk
b. INDIVIDUAL WORKS ON CD (in alphabetical order)
Ad Lucem
Tom Winpenny, organ
St Albans Experience
Willowhayne Records www.willowhayne.com
Alarch, Yr (The Swan) for solo voice
Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano
Taliesin's Songbook
Rhian Samuel's 'Yr Alarch' (The Swan) for solo soprano offers a potent contrast to this more lyrical style and is performed with real bravura by Elin Manahan Thomas. Samuel's ingenious setting of this anonymous 14th-century poem offers a striking musical evocation of the swan in all its guises, from soaring arcs of melody to pattering snippets of exploratory vocalisation.
Kate Wakeling, BBC Music Magazine, September 2021
Alarch, Yr (The Swan) for solo voice
Paul Carey Jones, baritone
Song/Lied/Cân: Vocal Music by Rhian Samuel and Clara Schumann
Tŷ Cerdd Records TCR027 www.tycerddshop.com
Tŷ Cerdd Records TCR027 www.tycerddshop.com
Alarch, Yr (The Swan) for SATB chorus
Cardiff University Contemporary Music Group
Robert Fokkens, conductor
Only Breath; New Choral Music from Wales
Tŷ Cerdd Records TCR022 www.tycerddshop.com
Ariel
Catherine Handley, flute, Andrew Wilson-Dickson, piano
Ariel
A0267-CD HAL 004 www.creighton-griffiths.co.uk
Blythswood
Su Zhen, viola, Simon Lepper, piano
British Rhapsody: Music for Viola and Piano
Stone Records 5060192780352 www.stonerecords.co.uk
Clytemnestra
BBCNOW, Jac van Steen, conductor, Ruby Hughes, soprano
Clytemnestra
BIS Records BIS-2408 SACD www.bis.se
Rupert Christiansen, The Daily Telegraph 22 February 2020
George Brown, The Times 31 January 2020
Samuel’s musical response is something of a tour de force – at once fiercely dramatic and always coherent ... Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof technical strength and control, plenty of repower where needed, and a thrilling instinct for capturing the persona of this fearsome anti-heroine.
Malcolm Hayes, BBC Music Magazine, February 2020
Malcolm Hayes, BBC Music Magazine, February 2020
Samuel’s musical language is accessible and powerful, with an appropriately craggy granitic strength to it ... Jac van Steen gets excellent, vivid playing from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales ... [I]t’s for Samuel’s punchy work that this new album is primarily worth seeking out. Hugo Shirley, The Gramophone February 2020
Dovey Junction
A5 Brass Quintet
Carthen Cerdd
Tŷ Cerdd Records TCR023 www.tycerddshop.com
Flowing Sand, The
Paul Carey Jones, baritone, Jocelyn Freeman, piano
Song/Lied/Cân: Vocal Music by Rhian Samuel and Clara Schumann
Song/Lied/Cân: Vocal Music by Rhian Samuel and Clara Schumann
Tŷ Cerdd Records TCR027 www.tycerddshop.com
Garland for Anne, A
Chenyin Li, piano
Rhian Samuel: Light and Water
Deux-Elles DXL1128 www.deux-elles.co.uk
Deux-Elles DXL1128 www.deux-elles.co.uk
Gaslight Square II
Piano Duo Antithesis: Dimitris Karydis, Petros Moschos
Rhian Samuel: Light and Water
Deux-Elles DXL1128 www.deux-elles.co.uk
Gaze, The [Shakespeare]
Caroline MacPhie, soprano, Joseph Middleton, piano
Love said to me
Stone Records 5060192780451 www.stonerecords.co.uk
Hare in the Moon, The
Lucy Crowe, soprano, Simon Lepper, piano
Rhian Samuel: Light and Water
Deux-Elles DXL1128 www.deux-elles.co.uk
Isolation Suite: Sarabande
Julian Perkins, harpsichord
From Handel's Home: The Keyboards of Handel/Hendrix House
Delphian Records DSD34314 www.dephianrecords.com
Jolly Wat the Shepherd
Joyful Company of Singers, Peter Broadbent, conductor
Plum Pudding
Champs Hill Records CHRCD013 www.champshillrecords.co.uk
LIttle Duos for oboe and cor anglais
Tailleferre Ensemble: Penelope Smith, oboe, Nicola Hands, cor anglais
There are Things to be Said
Ulysses Arts www.ulyssesarts.com
Love bade me welcome
Choir of New College, Robert Quinney, director
The Gate of Heaven
Novum Records NCR 1391 www.newcollegechoir.com
Moon over Maenefa
Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone
Songs of Earth and Air: The Vocal Works of Rhian Samuel
Lorelt Records, LNT 146 www.lorelt.co.uk
Nantcol Songs: A Perfect View
Gillian Keith, soprano, Simon Lepper, piano
A Garland for Presteigne
Metronome METCD1065 www.metronome.co.uk
Quartet: Light and Water
Fidelio Piano Quartet: Michael Dussek, piano, Tamás András, violin,
Sarah-Jane Bradley, viola, Gemma Rosefield, cello
Rhian Samuel: Light and Water
Deux-Elles DXL1128 www.deux-elles.co.uk
Deux-Elles DXL1128 www.deux-elles.co.uk
Quartet: Threaded Light
Mavron Quartet
The Mavron Quartet’s 10th Anniversary Commissions
www.mavronquartet.co.uk
www.mavronquartet.co.uk
Tŷ Cerdd Studios: www.tycerdd.org
Rondeau
Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, Paula Fan, piano, Instrumentalists from U. Arizona.
Songs of Earth and Air: The Vocal Works of Rhian Samuel
Lorelt Records, LNT 146 www.lorelt.co.uk
Salve Nos
Hiyoli Togawa, viola
Songs of Solitude
BIS Records BIS-2533SACD www.bis.se
Shadow Dance
Nancy Ruffer, flute, John Anderson, oboe, Helen Crayford, piano
British Music for Flute, Oboe and Piano
Dutton Epoch CDLX 7181 www.duttonvocalion.co.uk
Dutton Epoch CDLX 7181 www.duttonvocalion.co.uk
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Mary Hofman, violin, Richard Ormrod, piano
Unbroken Threads
Tŷ Cerdd Records TCR039 www.tycerddshop.com
Songs of Earth and Air: The Kingfisher and April Rise
Sharon Mabry, mezzo-soprano, Rosemary Platt, piano
Music by Women
Capstone CPS-8714 (2-CD set) (USA)
Songs of Earth and Air
Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, Paula Fan, piano
Songs of Earth and Air: The Vocal Works of Rhian Samuel
Lorelt Records, LNT 146 www.lorelt.co.uk
Spring Diary
Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, Paula Fan, piano
Songs of Earth and Air: The Vocal Works of Rhian Samuel
Lorelt Records, LNT 146 www.lorelt.co.uk
Summer Songs
Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, Paula Fan, piano
Songs of Earth and Air: The Vocal Works of Rhian Samuel
Lorelt Records, LNT 146 www.lorelt.co.uk
Swift Radiant Morning, A
Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone, Paula Fan, piano
Threnody with Fanfares
Deborah Calland, trumpet, William Whitehead, organ
North Star
Deux-Elles DXL1097 www.deux-elles.co.uk
Deux-Elles DXL1097 www.deux-elles.co.uk
Time out of Time
Gemma Rosefield, cello, Simon Lepper, piano
Traquair Music
Cynthia Green Libby, oboe
Daystream Dances
Hester Park CD 7707 (USA)
Trinity
Joana Seara, soprano, Adam Walker, flute, John Reid, piano
Rhian Samuel: Light and Water
Deux-Elles DXL1128 www.deux-elles.co.uk
Deux-Elles DXL1128 www.deux-elles.co.uk
White Amaryllis, The
Katharine Dain, soprano, Jocelyn Freeman, piano
Song/Lied/Cân: Vocal Music by Rhian Samuel and Clara Schumann
Tŷ Cerdd Records TCR027 www.tycerddshop.com