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Symphony 1 'Yr Wyddfa - Snowdon'

by Dafydd Bullock

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Symphony 1 'Yr Wyddfa’ - ‘Snowdon’ Opus 37

This was an adventure! To dare to write a Symphony! The initial inspiration came from Sibelius 7, with its recurring brass climax surrounded, as it were, by the foothills of thematic activity. Mountainous moments, which led me to think of my ‘own’ mountain,Yr Wyddfa. I was born in Llanberis. And so here similar moments emerge from the clouds, based on a three-note motif from an early organ-piece entitled ‘Viele Strassen’ (‘Many roads’). Like Sibelius 7, this tries to do everything in one movement. The music is complex and urgent, with a recurring driving ostinato, seemingly ever present, lyrical passages and periodic moments of geological violence from the brass using the three note motif.

Leudelange, Luxembourg, 1989

Dedicated to Ifor Jones

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released October 10, 2023

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Dafydd Bullock Luxembourg

Dafydd Bullock was born in Llanberis, Wales. In 1995 he was admitted to the highest Order of the Gorsedd of Bards. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005.
Works include 36 Symphonies, 19 Symphonic Poems, 2 Operas, 2 Requiems, 2 Mass settings, a Missa Brevis, an Oratorio, 35 String Quartets, 9 Trios and other chamber music and many songs and pieces for piano, and 41 CDs.
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