Release Date: 10 November 2008
Label: Sain
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5016886257020
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Mae Hiraeth Yn Y Mor
Release Date: 10 November 2008
Label: Sain
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5016886257020
Genres: Classical  
Composer/Series: Mae Hiraeth Yn Y Mor
Description
A surprise album for renowned Welsh tenor and conductor at his last concert!
It is a collection of Welsh songs taken from the early recordings of Kenneth Bowen, and was presented to him during a recent farewell concert with the London Welsh Chorale. The CD was compiled by his son, Meurig Bowen who is a writer on music, and Director of the Cheltenham Music Festival.
He writes, "I hope this recording will be enjoyed for what I believe - objectively - it is: some damn fine singing, robust, sensitive, thrilling, sincere and from a warm Welsh heart."
"When I studied singing with Kenneth Bowen at the Royal Academy of Music in the early '90s, he'd already been retired as a singer for a few years. So it's a real pleasure to hear these recordings, made in his prime and way before I started singing myself as a chorister in Bangor. My first album featured Dilys Elwyn-Edwards' 'Caneuon y tri aderyn' - so it's fantastic to hear Ken singing them here. Dilys wrote these lovely songs for him back in 1961, and especially in 'Mae Hiraeth yn y Môr', I think you can hear a song perfectly suited to the soaring warmth of his voice." - Aled Jones
Tracklisting
Calan
Elin Fflur
Calan
Bryn Terfel, Katherine Jenkins, Aled Jones & Rhys Meirion
Cor Aelwyd Cf1 Choir
Iris Williams
Iwan Llewelyn-Jones
Crasdant
Signe Asmussen; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester
Shira Patchornik; CHAARTS Chamber Artists; David Castro-Balbi
Jack Hancher
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle
Yorck Kronenberg; Christoph Seybold
Wendy Stern; Kathleen Nester; Amanda Harberg; Katie Lueng
Wang Huandong/Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria/Filippo Arlia
Vivum Singers; Francesca Massey; Tom Winpenny