Under Milk Wood Variations
1989 | 14 mins | for four guitars and (optional) narrator
First Voice
Mr Mog Edwards and Miss Myfanwy Price
Lord Cut-Glass
Captain Cat and Rosie Probert
Mrs Dai Bread Two
Mr Waldo
“ Under Milk Wood Variations is based on the radio drama Under Milk Wood by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. It is one of Goss’s earliest works, written for narrator and guitar quartet. The music for each movement serves as a sort of musical portrait of various personages in the town. Among them is the notably eccentric “Lord Cut-Glass,” who keeps more than sixty clocks in his house, all set to different times. It sounds a bit problematic to me. Quite a cool piece.” Soundboard
Commissioned for the TETRA guitar Quartet by the Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain. First performed at St John’s, Smith Square, London, 24th Ferbuary 1990. Recorded on TETRA (Tantallon CDDB2 © 1991). Published by Editions Orphée 494-02831 (EICM-21) © 2009. Recorded on Landscape and Memory, Deux-Elles (DXL 1202© 2024).