Track Listing

1. Land of My Fathers - Bedwas, Morriston Orpheus Choir, Trethomas & Machin Band
2. Where Shall I Be? - Bedwas, Morriston Orpheus Choir, Trethomas & Machin Band
3. Calon Lan - Bedwas, Morriston Orpheus Choir, Trethomas & Machin Band
4. Speed Your Journey (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) - Canoldir Male Choir
5. How Great Thou Art - Canoldir Male Choir
6. Lord's Prayer - Canoldir Male Choir
7. We'll Keep a Welcome - Canoldir Male Choir
8. Rise up Shepherd and Follow - Morriston Orpheus Choir
9. Anvil Chorus - Morriston Orpheus Choir
10. Deep Harmony - Morriston Orpheus Choir
11. My Lord, What a Mornin' - Morriston Orpheus Choir
12. Goin' Home - Morriston Orpheus Choir
13. Mil Harddach Wyt - Pontardudulais Male Choir
14. Christus Redemptor - Pontardudulais Male Choir
15. Aberystwyth (Jesu, Lover of My Soul) - Treorchy Male Choir
16. Hymn from Finlandia - Treorchy Male Choir
17. Unwaith Eto'n Nghymru Annwyl - Treorchy Male Choir
18. David of the White Rock - Ivor Emmanuel, Rhos Male Voice Choir
19. Dove - Ivor Emmanuel, Rhos Male Voice Choir
20. Ash Grove - Ivor Emmanuel, Rhos Male Voice Choir
21. My Old Kentucky Home - Dunvant Male Choir
22. Deus Salutis - Dunvant Male Choir
23. Sarah - Dunvant Male Choir
24. Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night) - Dunvant Male Choir
25. My Little Welsh Home - Ivor Emmanuel, Rhos Male Voice Choir

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14675 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Excellent
This compilation offers a excellent combination of hymns and welsh folk songs, with brilliant quality sound. Unlike some other Welsh Male voice CD's the singing is not drowned out by an organ or have an underemphasis on one of the parts. Easily the best Welsh male voice I've bought and it has become a much appreciated present to many relatives.

For the Land of Song - buy this one!
At last, a CD of Welsh choral music that really delivers. Now, any collection that starts off with `Land of my fathers' and concludes with `Ar Hyd Y Nos' (`All through the night') and Ivor Emanuel soloing in `My little Welsh home' is bound to raise expectations - and mine were not disappointed.

Not that the 25 selections are all Welsh: there are old favourites like Verdi's `Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves' and his `Anvil Chorus', as well as a rich collections of hymns. And not to forget Sibelius' `Finlandia' theme.... and a beautiful, soft rendering of Malotte's `The Lord's Prayer'. (There's also a politically correct `My old Kentucky home' with no `darkies' - they have become `old folks'.... ach ja!)

My only quibble: the overly heavy accompaniment in the selections where the Bedwas, Trethomas and Machin Band performs: surely there's no need to drown out all the highpoints of, for example, `Land of my fathers', in a clash of cymbals?