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Siwan Rhys - Letting The Light In [CD]

Siwan Rhys - Letting The Light In [CD]

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NMC Recordings releases the first commercial album to showcase disabled composers working in the UK. The composers featured on the recording include Sonia Allori, Sarah Lianne Lewis, Jo-anne Cox, Elinor Rowlands, Leon Clowes and Sorcha Pringle. Performed by Welsh pianist Siwan Rhys, the album also features performances by Sonia Allori (clarinet and electronic wind instrument), Jo-Anne Cox (Cello), and Elinor Rowlands (Narrator). The album was made possible due to a partnership between Drake Music Scotland, the Disabled Artist Network, Ty Cerdd, and NMC Recordings and funded by PRS Foundation's Beyond Borders Fund 2023. The project was managed by Pete Sparkes, Caitlin Mulgrew, and Thursa Sanderson of Drake Music Scotland, alongside Associate Composer Ben Lunn. The works featured on this album were premiered at a concert at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama / Coleg Brehinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru on 03 November 2023.

Ben Lunn, Associate Composer for Drake Music Scotland, and curator of this album said: 'Disabled people occupy a curious position in classical music. There are giant historic figures like Beethoven and Gustav Holst, but they are recognised as great composers - and much of the discussion around their disability is avoided, nullified, or erased. Similarly, the history of Disabled composers working with keyboards also is quite curiously rich where figures like John Stanley, Beethoven, Louis Vierne, Jean Langlais, and Erik Satie have made significant contributions to the genre over many centuries. This history places this album in a unique position, because despite the richness of history this is the first professional compilation release which specifically showcases Disabled composers who have written fascinating works for piano. The composers featured within this release are a snapshot of contemporary Disabled composers working in Britain, all of whom have a wide variety of musical concerns and interests - but give a hint of the wild variety that is being produced by Disabled composers more broadly today.'

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'Whether it's the sparse unison melodies in Elinor Rowlands's Secrets in the Centrefold \x96 a song that mixes both spoken words with singing about a town in Norway wiped out by an earthquake \x96 or the titular, bell-like letting the light in by Sarah Lianne Lewis, Rhys demonstrates nimble adaptivity.'\t\x96 BBC Music Magazine (4 stars)

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The 2025 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards placed particular emphasis on disabled members of the music industry. Welsh composer Sarah Lianne Lewis won the Chamber-Scale Composition Award for letting the light (NMCD283) in, a work for solo piano created as part of Drake Music Scotland and the Disabled Artist Network's Beyond Borders, Beyond Barriers initiative.\r
It features on the first commercial album to showcase UK disabled composers, produced by 2025 Gamechanger Award-winning label NMC Recordings.

Random eddies (in the space time continuum)

letting the light in

Galwad y Mynydd

Secrets in the Centrefold

Anni

Gini

Joni

Diminshed Credibility: Part I

Diminshed Credibility: Part II

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NMC Recordings releases the first commercial album to showcase disabled composers working in the UK. The composers featured on the recording include Sonia Allori, Sarah Lianne Lewis, Jo-anne Cox, Elinor Rowlands, Leon Clowes and Sorcha Pringle. Performed by Welsh pianist Siwan Rhys, the album also features performances by Sonia Allori (clarinet and electronic wind instrument), Jo-Anne Cox (Cello), and Elinor Rowlands (Narrator). The album was made possible due to a partnership between Drake Music Scotland, the Disabled Artist Network, Ty Cerdd, and NMC Recordings and funded by PRS Foundation's Beyond Borders Fund 2023. The project was managed by Pete Sparkes, Caitlin Mulgrew, and Thursa Sanderson of Drake Music Scotland, alongside Associate Composer Ben Lunn. The works featured on this album were premiered at a concert at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama / Coleg Brehinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru on 03 November 2023.

Ben Lunn, Associate Composer for Drake Music Scotland, and curator of this album said: 'Disabled people occupy a curious position in classical music. There are giant historic figures like Beethoven and Gustav Holst, but they are recognised as great composers - and much of the discussion around their disability is avoided, nullified, or erased. Similarly, the history of Disabled composers working with keyboards also is quite curiously rich where figures like John Stanley, Beethoven, Louis Vierne, Jean Langlais, and Erik Satie have made significant contributions to the genre over many centuries. This history places this album in a unique position, because despite the richness of history this is the first professional compilation release which specifically showcases Disabled composers who have written fascinating works for piano. The composers featured within this release are a snapshot of contemporary Disabled composers working in Britain, all of whom have a wide variety of musical concerns and interests - but give a hint of the wild variety that is being produced by Disabled composers more broadly today.'

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'Whether it's the sparse unison melodies in Elinor Rowlands's Secrets in the Centrefold x96 a song that mixes both spoken words with singing about a town in Norway wiped out by an earthquake x96 or the titular, bell-like letting the light in by Sarah Lianne Lewis, Rhys demonstrates nimble adaptivity.'tx96 BBC Music Magazine (4 stars)

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The 2025 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards placed particular emphasis on disabled members of the music industry. Welsh composer Sarah Lianne Lewis won the Chamber-Scale Composition Award for letting the light (NMCD283) in, a work for solo piano created as part of Drake Music Scotland and the Disabled Artist Network's Beyond Borders, Beyond Barriers initiative.rIt features on the first commercial album to showcase UK disabled composers, produced by 2025 Gamechanger Award-winning label NMC Recordings.

Random eddies (in the space time continuum)

letting the light in

Galwad y Mynydd

Secrets in the Centrefold

Anni

Gini

Joni

Diminshed Credibility: Part I

Diminshed Credibility: Part II

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Random eddies (in the space time continuum)

letting the light in

Galwad y Mynydd

Secrets in the Centrefold

Anni

Gini

Joni

Diminshed Credibility: Part I

Diminshed Credibility: Part II

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