Daniel Jones, the composer, was a childhood friend of the poet Dylan Thomas, and they collaborated on over two hundred poems.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Daniel Jones's symphonies, which number 13, are each based on a different note of the chromatic scale.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Daniel Jones regarded composing as a process of discovery, believing that the piece already existed and his task was to unveil it.
Recording & Production
This album features BBC broadcast recordings of Daniel Jones's Symphonies Nos. 1 and 10, performed by the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bryden Thomson.
Historical Context
During the Second World War, Daniel Jones served in British Army Intelligence as a cryptographer and decoder of Japanese, Romanian, and Russian at Bletchley Park.
Composition History
Daniel Jones's Symphony No. 1, his longest symphonic work at around 55 minutes, was completed in 1947 while he was still in the army.
Compositional Technique
Daniel Jones developed a technique of 'complex metres' involving irregular time signatures, which he related to Elizabethan traditions of melody.
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