Grace Williams: Orchestral Works William Byrd had an elusive quality that

had an elusive quality that was to prove inspirational to generations of musicians

With A Cavalier Christmas

the Choir delivers these works with a compelling combination of precision and fervour

and conductor George Vass

Grace Williams: Orchestral Works William Byrd had an elusive quality thatBBC Philharmonic John Andrews (conductor) The BBC Philharmonic under the expert baton of John Andrews, illuminates four of Grace Williams orchestral gems, spanning three decades of her illustrious career. This album opens with Four Illustrations for the Legend of Rhiannon (1939), a masterful suite that vividly brings the Welsh goddess to life with cinematic flair. The Sea Sketches (1944), composed during the wartime tumult of London, evoke the longing