Day 23: Selection from Great Hymns of the Welsh Choirs

Day 23: Selection from Great Hymns of the Welsh Choirs

I’m currently reading Jasper Rees’s Bred of Heaven, a story of how a man (Jasper Rees) tries to re-discover his Welsh roots, and in the process, spends a lot of time in Wales doing things that the Welsh are famous for – like sheep farming, coal mining, mountain climbing and singing in a Welshmale voice choir, so what better way to accompany this reading with a little bit of Welsh male voice singing (not while I was actually reading, of course, as I can’t do both of those things at once!)

Anyway, the CD isn’t the best of the Welsh ones I’ve got, but it is the only one I have that is devoted to hymns, and there are some lovely hymns included: Cwm Rhondda*, How Great Thou Art, Rise Up Shepherd and Foller, to name but a few.

The performances were done by a variety of Welsh male voice choirs, including: Caerphilly, Morriston Orpheus, and Pontarddulais.

There are no notes on the CD insert, no comments on the list of pieces to indicate who wrote them, but hey, who needs all that anyway. Rousing music that speaks for itself!


*played far too fast on this webpage!