Welsh Folk Music

VA - The Best Of Wales (1996) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 7, 2024

VA - The Best Of Wales (1996)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 275 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 143 MB
1:02:48 | Classical, Brass & Military, Folk, World | Label: Music For Pleasure

The album "The Best of Wales", released in 1996, is a compilation featuring various artists and is focused on Welsh music. Includes 20 tracks that highlight traditional Welsh folk music and choirs. It represents the rich cultural heritage of Wales, with performances by well-known Welsh groups and possibly famous male voice choirs such as the Morriston Orpheus Choir and Treorchy Male Choir. This album captures the essence of Welsh national pride through music.

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VA - Stick in the Wheel Present: English Folk Field Recordings, Vol. 2 (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at April 18, 2019

VA - Stick in the Wheel Present: English Folk Field Recordings, Vol. 2 (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 414 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 170 Mb | 01:14:05
Folk | Label: From Here Records

Once again, Ian Carter and Nicola Kearey of Stick In The Wheel took up their recording equipment and ventured to new places within England, both physically and metaphorically. Asking folk and traditional musicians what 'From Here' meant to them: this impulse to make music From Here where does it come from? What does it mean to be making this music in 2019, using the framework of English traditional music and culture? England is divided, and we may well look to the past to make sense of the future - in such times of chaos and political uncertainty, these are timely questions.

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Bevan Family Consort & Graham Ross - Vidi Speciosam: Sacred Choral Music (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at May 16, 2023

Bevan Family Consort & Graham Ross - Vidi Speciosam: Sacred Choral Music (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 279 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 147 Mb | 01:04:03
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Signum Classics

Soprano Mary Bevan writes: “In 1975, the original Bevan Family Choir released their debut album on vinyl, featuring an eclectic programme of sacred choral works, Welsh folk songs, and piano music."

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Piatti Quartet, Fidelio Trio & Thomas Gould - Gavin Higgins: Ekstasis (2021) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Dec. 18, 2021

Piatti Quartet, Fidelio Trio & Thomas Gould - Gavin Higgins: Ekstasis (2021)
FLAC tracks | 1:14:23 | 329 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Nimbus Alliance

Gavin Higgins (b. 1983) is one of the most exciting and gifted compositional talents of his generation, described as "boldly imaginative" (Times) and "a talent to watch" (The New York Times). From a long lineage of brass band musicians, Higgins was born in Gloucestershire and grew up in the Forest of Dean. He studied French horn at Chetham’s School of Music and composition at The Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal College of Music. In 2010 he became the inaugural music fellow for the Rambert Dance Company writing a number of daring ballet scores including What Wild Ecstasy (2012) which was shortlisted for a British Composer Award; and the ground-breaking Dark Arteries (2015) which was shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Award and a British Composer Award.His work has been commissioned by some of the UK’s leading festivals, including three commissions for the BBC Proms: Der Aufstand (2012), Rough Voices (2020) and the "fast, exciting and brilliantly scored" (Telegraph) Velocity which opened the Last Night of the Proms (2014). In 2019 his first opera, The Monstrous Child, commissioned by the Royal Opera House, opened to critical acclaim, being described as "a triumph" (The Guardian). In 2020 Higgins was appointed Composer-in-Association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

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Jeremy Huw Williams - Grace Williams: Songs (2024) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at July 25, 2024

Jeremy Huw Williams - Grace Williams: Songs (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:17:46 | 308 Mb
Genre: Classical

Williams has appeared for Welsh National Opera, Opera Ireland and Music Theatre Wales amongst others, and has released numerous recordings, most notably of music by contemporary Welsh composers, including Alun Hoddinott, William Mathias and Mansel Thomas. In addition to these he has also given premieres of works by composers John Tavener, Martin Butler, John Metcalf, Julian Phillips, Edward Dudley Hughes, Ian Wilson, Richard Causton, Edward Rushton, Arlene Sierra and Huw Watkins. In 2019 he became President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM).

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Jeremy Huw Williams - Grace Williams: Songs (2024) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at July 25, 2024

Jeremy Huw Williams - Grace Williams: Songs (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:17:46 | 308 Mb
Genre: Classical

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Alan Stivell - Human / Kelt (2018) Music

Posted by aasana at Oct. 27, 2018

Alan Stivell - Human / Kelt (2018)
World, Celtic, Folk-rock | 01:14:25 | WEB FLAC (tracks) | 425 MB
Label: World Village

If there is a single savior of Celtic music, Alan Stivell is probably it. Since the end of the 1960s, he has done more to revive interest in the Celtic (specifically Breton) harp than anyone in the world and, in the process, almost singlehandedly made the world aware of native Breton Celtic music. Since 1971, he has been recording albums of extraordinary beauty and diversity, ranging from ancient Breton and Irish material to modern folk-rock and progressive rock.

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Pererin - 3 Studio Albums (1981-1988) [Reissue 2005-2008] Music

Posted by gribovar at June 13, 2024

Pererin, meaning "Piligrim" in Welsh, is to Wales what Runrig has been to Scotland, only more so. They perform traditional and traditionally inspired original material that combines spiritual and romantic themes with a strong helping of Nationalistic pride and a desire to preserve their own unique culture. They sang only in Welsh, and even English sleeve notes are even hard to find.
Teithgan (1981). Guerssen Records reissue this awesome second longplayer by Welsh psychedelic folk-rockers Pererin. Originally released in 1981 on the Gwerin label, this is an album of traditional Welsh folk meets rock, with psychedelic guitar leads, flute, and male and female vocals. For many this album is the band's best work, and it's definitely the rarest one. Definitely one of the best albums of the genre…

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Pererin - 3 Studio Albums (1981-1988) [Reissue 2005-2008] Music

Posted by gribovar at June 13, 2024

Pererin, meaning "Piligrim" in Welsh, is to Wales what Runrig has been to Scotland, only more so. They perform traditional and traditionally inspired original material that combines spiritual and romantic themes with a strong helping of Nationalistic pride and a desire to preserve their own unique culture. They sang only in Welsh, and even English sleeve notes are even hard to find.
Teithgan (1981). Guerssen Records reissue this awesome second longplayer by Welsh psychedelic folk-rockers Pererin. Originally released in 1981 on the Gwerin label, this is an album of traditional Welsh folk meets rock, with psychedelic guitar leads, flute, and male and female vocals. For many this album is the band's best work, and it's definitely the rarest one. Definitely one of the best albums of the genre…

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Jason Carder, Edward Reid, Jeremy Huw Williams, Paula Fan, Rex Woods - A Time of Vision and Eternity: Songs & Chamber Music (20 Music

Posted by varrock at Jan. 24, 2020

Jason Carder, Edward Reid, Jeremy Huw Williams, Paula Fan, Rex Woods - A Time of Vision and Eternity: Songs & Chamber Music (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 292 MB | Tracks: 21 | 81:46 min
Style: Classical | Label: Naxos

William Mathias was one of the most significant and prolific Welsh composers of the 20th century. His flexible and highly approachable style can be heard in the holiday mood of the Suite Parisienne, the brilliance and lyricism of the Capriccio for flute and piano and the wonderfully rhapsodic Sonata for Harp. Mathias's songs are among the most communicative settings of their kind, including Pan Oeddwn Fachgen ('A Dream of Youth'), considered by the composer to be 'one of the finest lyrical poems in modern Welsh.

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