Bryn Terfel - Sea Songs
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Bryn Terfel - Sea Songs
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Patrick Rimes (bagpipes)
[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 26 April 2024
Bryn Terfel's first studio album in over five years featuring wildly romantic "Sea Songs". Shanties and songs about the sea and seafaring in a folky guise such as "Wellerman", "Bold Riley", "Drunken Sailor" or "Sloop John B", with guests such as Sting ("Green Willow Tree"), Simon Keenlyside and the enchanting Welsh folk group Calan, and the a capella choir "Fisherman's Friends".
"The folk songs and shanties are by turns toe-tapping ly infectious and unexpectedly moving, and the performances gloriously, uproariously rendered. Sure to bring a smile to the most jaded of critics." BBC Music
"Terfel sings with such powerful clarity of enunciation you feel you could take dictation, even if your grasp of the language in question (Welsh, Breton, Norn) may be sketchy...Best of all is The Unst Boat Song, from Shetland, a mariners' prayer for safe passage. Terfel sings it with all the beauty, and the gift of storytelling we know from his years singing Wagner's grief-laden sailor in The Flying Dutchman." The Guardian
Tracks:
1. Fflat Huw Puw
2. Drunken Sailor
3. Codi Angor
4. Whisky, Johnny!
5. Sloop John B
6. Me 'zo ganet e-kreiz ar mor
7. Ar lan y môr
8. Santiana
9. The Green Willow Tree
10. The Unst Boat Song
11. The Wellerman
12. Ye Mariners All
13. Harbwr Corc
14. Bold Riley
15. Mae'r gwynt yn deg
16. The Irish Rover
17. Leave Her, Johnny
