Grace Mary Williams

Grace Mary Williams (1906-1977) was one of the first professional Welsh composers of the twentieth-century to attain significant national recognition, and is now recognized as one of the greatest female composers of the XXth Century.
Her large output encompasses two symphonies, several symphonic suites and symphonic poems, concertos for piano, violin, trumpet and oboe, as well as large-scale choral works, numerous vocal compositions and a few chamber and solo instrumental pieces.
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Grace Williams: Missa Cambrensis, for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra (1971) [World Premiere]

Grace Williams: Sea Sketches, for String orchestra (1944) [Christoph Koenig]

Grace Williams: The Dark Island, excerpts from the incidental music, for strings (1948)

Grace Williams : Elegy for String orchestra (1936; revised in 1940) [Ryan Bancroft]

Grace Williams : Sea Sketches, for String orchestra (1944) [BBC Scottish SO / Holly Mathieson]

Grace Williams : Processional, for orchestra (1962 ; revised in 1968)

Grace Williams : Ballads for orchestra (1968) [Boris Brott]

Grace Williams : Violin Concerto (1950) [Yfrah Neaman, Vernon Handley]

Grace Williams : Symphony No. 2 (1956 ; revised in 1975) [Owain Arwel Hughes]

Grace Williams : Sea Sketches, for String orchestra (1944) [BBC NOW / Owain Arwel Hughes]

Grace Williams : Ave maris stella, for SATB Chorus a cappella (1973) [BBC National Chorus of Wales]

Grace Williams : Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1940) [BBC NOW / Grant Llewellyn]

Grace Williams : The Parlour, Opera in One Act (1961)

Grace Williams : Hiraeth, for solo Harp (1951) [Anne Denholm]

Grace Williams : Fairest of Stars, for soprano and orchestra (1973) [Janet Price]

Grace Williams : Hiraeth, for solo Harp (1951) [Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu]

Grace Williams : Carillons, for Oboe and Orchestra (1965 ; rev. 1973)

Grace Williams : Trumpet Concerto (1963) [Howard Snell]

Grace Williams: Sea Sketches, for String orchestra (1944) [English Chamber Orchestra/David Atherton]

Grace Williams : Penillion, symphonic poem in four movements (1955) [Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]

Grace Williams : Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1940) [London Symphony Orchestra / Charles Groves]

Grace Williams : Penillion, symphonic poem in four movements (1955) [Live performance, VIDEO]

Grace Williams : Sonatina for Flute and Piano (1931)

Grace Williams : Elegy for Cynddylan, for Trumpet and Piano (1970)

Grace Williams : Variation on "Braint" (from "Severn Bridge Variations", 1966) [Perry So]

Grace Williams : Ballads for orchestra (1968) [Vernon Handley]

Grace Williams : Six Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1958)

Grace Williams : Two Interlinked Choruses (1975)

Grace Williams : Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1940) [Royal Ballet Sinfonia]

Grace Williams : Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes (1940) [National Youth Orchestra of Wales]