9790708229285

Richard Blackford: The Black Lake - Festival Edition, Narrative Cantata Based On The Novel Un Nos Ola Leuad [for Satb Choir, Soprano, 2 Narrators & Chamber Orchestra] - Vocal Score

Richard Blackford

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Format: BK

Cat No: NMP1378

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Release Date:  06 November 2026

Label:  Nimbus Music Publishing

Packaging Type:  Paper Back Book

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  9790708229285

Genres:  Classical  Choral  

Composer/Series:  Richard Blackford

  • Description

    In 1993 I wrote incidental music for a theatrical adaptation of Caradog Prichard's novel Un Nos Ola Leuad (One Moonlit Night) for Theatr Clwyd. In addition to a handful of live players we were fortunate to work with a Welsh male-voice choir, whose powerful renditions of Welsh hymns were highlights of the evening. Over the years I returned again and again to this poignant tale of a young boy growing up in the North Wales village of Bethesda in the years leading up to and during World War I. I wanted to go much further than the limited music I was able to offer for the play: to set the highly charged poetic sections that are strongly reminiscent of the Song of Songs as extended choruses with soprano solo; to evoke the splendour of the meeting of choirs on the Welsh hillside; the dramatic denial of communion to a young pregnant woman during Chapel. All these scenes, and many more, suggested choruses that accompany the young boy as he recalls events from his life.