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Live from St. David's Hall in Cardiff, as part of a week-long focus on music-making in the Welsh capital, soprano Ailish Tynan and pianist Iain Burnside perform a contrasting programme of songs. A sequence of Schubert lieder begins with his delightful Serenade. Charles Ives comes next, with two texts by Ives recalling a happy event and by contrast another one that is rather sad. "In Faery, a charming trilogy of songs, is by Welsh composer Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, an accomplished song-writer who died in 2012. Then, as winter draws to a close, and the springtime beckons, Cardiff-born Ivor Novello's "Waltz of my heart" makes an uplifting finale to a selection of three popular melodies.

Schubert:
Ständchen, D 889
Im Frühling, D 882
Schwanengesang D 744
Dass sie hier gewesen, D 775
Wandrers Nachtlied D768 Op 6’3
Die Junge Nonne D 828

Dilys Elwyn-Edwards: In Faëry
The wife of Llew
The Find
A fairy hunt

Ives:
Memories - A, Very Pleasant; B, Rather Sad
The Cage
Serenity
Songs my mother taught me

Charles K Harris: After the ball is over
Alan Murray/Edward Lockton: I’ll walk beside you
Ivor Novello: Waltz of my heart

Ailish Tynan, soprano
Iain Burnside, piano

Producer: Johannah Smith for Â鶹Éç Wales