
HYWEL DAVIES
composer & sound artist
* Recording available on 'Hywel Davies' PFCD016
† Recording available on Soundcloud
SELECTED CONCERT WORKS
INSTRUMENTAL WORKS
1 player (not piano)
10 juin 1936 [2005] - cello solo (cellist also speaks), text by Robert Desnos - for Fanny Bray
Apostrophe [2003] - flute solo - written for Helledd Francis-Wright*
Purl Ground [2003] - marimba solo - written for Trent Petrunia (recorded by Kuniko Kato)
Second Apostrophe [2004] - oboe solo - written for Laura Karney
Test Ground [2013] - marimba solo - commissioned by Kuniko Kato
1 player (piano)
After the long trick [1999]
Albumleaf
Elternscenen (Scenes of Parenthood) [2018=9] - commissioned by Clare Hammond
Sonatas in F [2008] - written for Stephanie Chua*
Variations [2005] - written for Naomi Edermariam*
2 players
Duos [2003] - violin and cello - written for Linling Hsu and Becky Wenham*
3 players
Bow Flurry - glockenspiel and two pianos - written for Toca Loca*
38 Inventions - clarinet, percussion and viola - written for Ensemble Méduse
4 players
Cold in the Earth [2000] - cello quartet* - written for Russell Mills CD 'Undark' Emit0098
Descent [2003] - string quartet*
Not Dancing But Running [2003-7] - string quartet
Quartet [2017] - clarinet, violin, cello and piano - commissioned by Kokoro
6 players
Quickstep [2012] - flute (piccolo), clarinet (bass clarinet), piano, percussion, violin, cello - commissioned by Trondheim Sinfonietta
11 Players
Purcell Variations [2012] - flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, trombone, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass.
Crepusculum [2001] - for 11 solo strings†
string orchestra/ensemble
Passacaglia - written for Bournemouth Symphony Strings
Descent - arrangement for Ten Tors Orchestra
WORKS WITH VOICE
Solo voice and piano
Eight settings of Emily Dickinson [date]
Rose Songs [2011]
Voice and ensemble
Eight settings of Emily Dickinson [date] - soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello†
Five Shakespeare Sonnets [date] - baritone, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin and cello
Sea Songs [date] - alto, flute, clarinet, violin, cello + string group
Voices and ensemble
War Songs - SSAATTBB, flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, cello and double bass†
Eternal Father [Melita] - two SATB choirs, baritone solo, INSTRUMENTATION?
Unaccompanied voices
Nunc dimittis (part of the 'Tonbridge Service'†
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INSTALLATIONS
Pilgrim [2020]
commissioned by National Trust and installed at Mottisfont Abbey†
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Test Polyphony [2013]
commissioned by National Trust and installed at Mottisfont Abbey†
To-ing, fro-ing [2012]
live installation featuring Weymouth Concert Brass commissioned by b-side multimedia festival, installed at Town Bridge, Weymouth
Sound Tubes [2011]
wind-driven installation commissioned by b-side multimedia festival, installed at Chesil Beach
Music for Libraries [2007]
permanent sound installation for Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope, commissioned by Kent County Council
Music for Open Plan Offices [2005]
permanent sound installation for Arts Council England internal phone system, commissioned by Arts Council England
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Pastoral [2002/3]
sound installation at disused runway control tower at the former USAF base at Greenham Common, commissioned by New Greenham Arts
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Salva me [2001]
multi-source, site-specific sound installation. A Year of the Artist Residency and commission from Bath International Festivals.
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Miss Prentice meets Josef Albers at Francey's Easter Brunch
sound installation installed at Tate Gallery, Liverpool to accompany exhibition of American Abstractionists (SPNM)
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Soundings [1995]
sound installation, with visual artists Russell Mills and Iain Walton, Bath International Festival (SPNM)
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OTHER
STEREO COLLAGE WORKS
Apus apus - released under the pseudonym 'Natural Language'by Time Recording on compilation emit0096
Natural Language - full-length CD released by Time Recording emit0098
Dejeuner sur l'herbe - stereo collage for Transmission/FreeSound Festival (Plymouth Arts Centre)
Lick - quadraphonic piece
INSTALLATIONS WITHOUT SOUND
The Watcher [2011]
non-sound installation, Mottisfont Abbey
Gwair gwyrdd, gwyrdd o gartref (Green green grass of home) [2008]
turf installation commissioned by SAFLE and Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru.Green green grass of home