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If you would like to hear a sample (1 min
each - Sunset Poem full version) of some of our songs, download one of the clips below!
All Through The Night / Ar Hyd Y Nos
Download (180kb)
Full version for Elle in California (2.10Mb)
The melody of this lullaby, one of the most well known of all Welsh
airs, was written in the eighteenth century. The present version was
arranged for male voices by Hugh S. Robertson (1874-1952), founder of
the legendary Glasgow Orpheus Choir, which sang under his baton from
1906-1951.
Amhran na bhFiann Download (174kb)
Irelands National Anthem, the words were written in 1907 by Peadar Kearney
(1883-1942), Brendan Behans uncle. The music was composed by Patrick
Heeny, a friend of Kearney. It was published in 1912 by Bulmer Hobson
in the Irish Freedom Paper, and became the marching song of the Irish
Volunteers and subsequently the National Anthem.
Myfanwy Download (182kb)
Joseph Parry (1841-1903) composed this greatest of Welsh love songs.
Born in Merthyr Tydfil, he started work in the coal mines when he was
only nine. In 1853 his father emigrated to Pennsylvania, where his family
joined him the following year. Joseph began musical training and was
accepted into the Royal Academy in London in 1868. Four years later
he was appointed the first Professor Of Music at University College
Wales, Aberystwyth.
A prolific composer, Joseph Parry is best
known for his hymns ("Aberystwyth" most of all ), for the
Welsh opera Blodwen, and for Myfanwy, a moving plaint
to his former sweetheart by a man who had left her some years before.
O Mary Don't You Weep Download (180kb)
This spiritual, arranged by Raymond Rhea, takes its theme the drowning
of Pharaohs army, as recounted in the Book of Exodus.et
Poem
Sunset Poem
Click here for the story behind the song,
and here to download the full version (1,591kb),
as sung by the Dublin Welsh Male Voice Choir.
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