Composer: Daniel Jones
Performer: BBC National Chorus of Wales, Maldwyn Davies
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Bryden Thomson, Tecwyn Evans
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Lyrita
Catalogue: SRCD391
Release: 2021
Size: 285 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 12
01. I. Tranquillo – Agitato – Tranquillo
02. II. Giocoso
03. III. Serioso
04. IV. Risoluto
Symphony No. 13 (In Memoriam John Fussell) (Live)
05. I. Solenne
06. II. Capriccioso
07. III. Lento
08. IV. Agitato – Tranquillo
Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life (Live)
09. I. The Call
10. II. Choler
11. III. Antiphon I
12. IV. Fantasia “Whither, O Wither Art Thou Fled”
13. V. The Echo
14. VI. Dialogue
15. VII. Antiphon II
A fine example of Jones at his most succinct and incisive, the Twelfth Symphony (1985) was commissioned by the Civil and Public Services Association as a farewell gift to their retiring General Secretary, Ken Thomas. The Twelfth Symphony was first performed by the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra and conductor Erich Bergel at a gala concert at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff on 26 September 1985. The score bears a superscription consisting of a brief quotation from Pushkin, which reads “Yet one last tale, And my chronicle is ended”.
Daniel Jones’s Symphony in memory of John Fussell (Symphony No. 13) (1992) was first performed by the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra and conductor Richard Hickox at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea on 17 October 1992 at that year’s Swansea Festival. The work is a personal tribute to a friend of the composer, who was Swansea’s Director of Music and City Organist from 1970 until 1990, the year of his death. The cantata Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life (1987) was written in memory of John Aeron-Thomas, whose widow Margaret commissioned the work. A devout Christian, John Aeron-Thomas had been a founder-member of the Swansea Festival, who commissioned Jones’s First Symphony. among other works. The text is taken from poetry by George Herbert (1593-1633), which details his sacred journey.