Silver From Distant Suns

Folk memory, legends, place names, the landscape around us - all are whispered histories of our distant, deep past, not of our ancestors from one time alone but of all who have lived and left traces in history's river, filling the time and space between their time and land and Radnorshire today.

Silver From Distant Suns is a programme of music and poetry that give voice to those ancient people - today's folk legends - and their times.

Lyric poems of Charles Wilkinson - set to music and performed by Marion Rowlatt and string quartet - give us glimpses of who and how they were. The profoundly simple garden haiku of Francesca Kay - set to music for piano and oboe, performed by Ruth Watson and Georgia Vale - open quiet paths for hearing the whispers. The 2nd Neolithic Suite, scored for Oboe, Piano and strings, will offer impressions of the kinds of songs and dances familiar to those inhabitants of truly 'old Radnor'