From the Shadowland consists of six short piano pieces supplemented by the lengthier and more complex
Fountain of Prophecy and
Fairy Ring (published separately). All eight pieces, written between 1975 and 1990, convey a darkly mysterious and often delicately poignant mood. Ford has taken as his point of departure the programmatic character piece of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, forging from historical idioms a personal post-romantic style with an unmistakably Gallic (and intermittently Iberian) flavor.
"She Dances No More," a deeply touching miniature, has become one of Ford's best loved and most widely performed piano pieces.
