Track Listing

1. I Believe
2. My Life Flows On
3. Vespera
4. Pie Jesu
5. Suo-Gan
6. Did You Not Hear My Lady
7. Ave Maria
8. How Great Thou Art
9. Do You Hear What I Hear?
10. All Through The Night
11. Panis Angelicus
12. Nunc Dimittis
13. Lead Kindly Light
14. O Holy Night
15. O Waly, Waly (The Water Is Wide)
16. The Lark in the Clear Air
17. For Once In My Life

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32378 in Music
• Released on: 2005-02-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Aled is Aled Jones' first CD for 16 years. It's one thing to make a comeback; it's something else to re-emerge with a completely new voice. After a high-profile career as a young descant, including the hit single "Walking in the Air", Jones left the limelight. His time out included a stint at the Royal Academy of Music developing his baritone voice which is now heard on this his first disc as an adult.

The strengths of Jones' treble, notably clarity of words and musical expression, have been preserved in his adult singing voice. The 14 tracks on Aled include folk songs as well as hymns and other religious pieces, a reflection of his "day job" as a Songs of Praise presenter. On several numbers, Jones teams up with Robert Prizeman and his boys choir Libera. This is an inspired pairing and produces some of the disc's highlights, including the spine-tingling "Vespera". It is good to hear Jones sing in his native Welsh, but the finest moment is saved until last--Adolphe Adam's popular modern-day carol "O Holy Night" where the two Aleds, young and old, duet. --Rebecca Agnew

Customer Reviews

Wonderful voice
I bought this CD for my mother-in-law as we both have similar taste in music. Since becoming Josh Groban fans we thought no one could match his fantastic voice, I was wrong .... Aled has a beautiful voice and all the tracks on this CD are brilliant. His version of 'O Holy Night' is just as good as Josh!
I will be buying Aled again!

Stunning
This is not the sort of music I usually go for, but Aled's voice is just so pure and moving, that I have been converted. My only quibble is why it is necessary to include a Christmas song among the rest.