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We return to Wales for our next classic, ‘Morfa Rhuddlan’ by Welsh composer Morfydd Owen. Its first public performance in over 70 years, this recording, took place as part of the Gregynog Festival in 2014 in Aberystwyth Arts Centre with conductor Jac Van Steen.

‘Morfa Rhuddlan’ or ‘The Marsh of Rhuddlan’ is a tone poem for orchestra written by Owen in 1914, and based on a folk tune of the same name. It is thought to refer to the place on the banks of the Clwyd in Flintshire where many Battles of between the Welsh and the Saxons took place, and the Welsh monarch Caradog was killed in battle in 759AD.

If you’d like to hear more of Morfydd Owen’s work, we featured her ‘Nocturne’ as part of Classics with NOW in July – visit the Classics with NOW page on our website to listen!