Mathias: Sweet Was the Song

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Celebration

Label:

Nimbus

Catalogue No:

NI5310

Discs:

1

Barcode:

0710357531026

Medium:

CD
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Celebration

Christmas Fanfares and Carols

 

Readings:

Robert Bridges, Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Marcello's Speech (Act 1, Sc. 1)

Dylan Thomas, Memories of Christmas (extract)

Thomas Hardy, The Oxen

Saunders Lewis, Carol (Amlyn ac Amig)

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (extract)

Laurie Lee, Christmas Landscape

Arthur:

Tua Bethlem Dref

Davies, Walford:

O Little Town of Bethlehem

Gardner, John:

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

Gauntlett:

Once in Royal David's city

Hoddinott:

Fendigaid Nos

Howells:

Here is the Little Door

Lewis, G:

Tawel Nos

Mathias:

Bell Carol

Sweet Was the Song

Mendelssohn:

Hark! the herald angels sing

Poston:

Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

trad.:

Mary had a baby

Christmas Night

The First Nowell

De Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

Still, still, still

Ar fore dydd Nadolig (traditional Welsh)

Wade:

O come, all ye faithful

Aled Jones (readings)

BBC Welsh Chorus, Fanfare Trumpeters of the Welsh Guards, John Hugh Thomas, Lt. Col. P. Hannam, BEM

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Newsweek

“Equally Celtic (as the Chieftains) and equally Christmassy is Celebration Fanfares and Carols (Nimbus): the BBC Welsh Chorus sings such vernacular carols as the regal "Tua Bethlem Dref" and "Tawal Nos", a lovely variation on Silent Night.”

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