Godfrey Paul Corfield - The Fall Of Gondolin [CD]

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During the period 1982-97 Welsh composer Paul Corfield Godfrey produced a series of 'epic scenes' drawn from J R R Tolkien's posthumous writings for The Silmarillion, employing a large variety of posthumously published texts by the author with the permission of the Tolkien Estate. The cycle, extending in performance over four evenings, is the largest-scale work of classical music written in Wales in the twentieth century, demanding a full roster of solo singers, chorus and an orchestra of some eighty players, but has only ever been performed in excerpts until now.

rrFollowing on the success last year of the CD of the composer's music including the piano rondo Akallabxeath and other Tolkien works, Prima Facie Records in collaboration with Volante Opera Productions now presents the first instalment in a complete recording of the epic scenes, to be released in a series of double CD albums. In a review last year Chris Seeman of the Tolkien Music Website wrote: 'In the annals of Tolkien-inspired music, Paul Corfield Godfrey is the proverbial elephant in the closet' and expressed a hope that more of his work would be recorded in the near future. Accordingly this set of The Fall of Gondolin will be followed next year by a release of Beren and Luthien, to be followed in due course by The Children of Hurin and Feanor.rr

The singers are all professional artists from Welsh National Opera, and the sets will make available for the first time a fully representative recording of the music with the complete lyrics by Tolkien. Because of budgetary and other constraints, the orchestra is represented by sampled sets (using the sounds of real instruments) which have been carefully balanced and adjusted in collaboration with the composer to obtain as close a result to the sound of an actual orchestra as possible. The booklet with this set of The Fall of Gondolin explains the methods of production in greater detail, and also includes an essay by the composer on the manner in which the author's text has been adapted for music.

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In a review last year of the composer's Akallabeth, Goran Forsling referred to his music as 'accessible and captivating'. Brian Wilson in another review compared his Tolkien songs to the Housman settings of Vaughan Williams, and observed that he would not be surprised if 'some of Godfrey's music becomes as well-loved as the Vaughan Williams.' We would hope that audiences will enjoy the further exploration of this extensive work.

Prologue: Sing Us A Tale Of Earendil The Wandering

In A Dim And Perilous Region

Now Shalt Thou Go To Gondolin, Turgon

Fell Is This Frost

Scene One: And Turgon Rose

Scene Six: This Is Strange In You, Voronwe

But Aredhel Wearied Of The Guarded City

Rejoice That You Have Found

So Aredhel Rode Abroad

Instrumental: Wedding March

Scene Two: But The Trees Of Nan Elmoth

Scene Seven: There Elven Lights

You Are Of The House Of Eol, Maeglin

Scene Eight: I Am Maeglin

Scene 3 And, Driven By Anger And Despair

Scene Nine : Ilu Iluvatar

I Rejoice Indeed That My Sister Has Returned

Morgoth Is Upon Us!

Welcome, Kinsman; For So I Hold You

Ah! Woe Is Me

Scene Four: Huor The Brother Of Hurin

The Fume Of The Burning

And At That Hour The Sun Went Down

Then A Green Turf Came There

Rise, Son Of Huor

Epilogue: I Know A Window In A Western Tower

Instrumental: Storm Music

Oh Happy Mariner

Hail, Veronwe! I Await You

Often I Have Vowed

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