Composer Paul Corfield Godfrey was given permission by Rayner Unwin in 1978 to compose this setting of J.R.R. Tolkien's poem Shadow-Bride.
Shadow-bride was written for viola and piano accompaniment, as a commission for Sheila Searchfield and Myra Ricketts, who gave the first performance at the Greenwich Festival in 1978.
Material from the song was later used in similar circumstances within the opera, The Fall of Gondolin, Op. 49 (Opera).
Recordings
A performance of this work is available on the album Akallabêth and other Tolkien Works released by Prima Facie records in 2017.
Volante Opera Productions did a video recording of this work for Zarathustra: The Paul Corfield Godfrey Music Trust [1].