Osian Ellis: Songs with Harp

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Osian Ellis: Songs with Harp
Osian Ellis (harp & voice)

[ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 25 March 2015

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'Wales is rich in folk songs, and the art of singing these songs is very much alive today,' writes Osian Ellis to the original note (reprinted in the CD booklet) accompanying this L'Oiseau-Lyre LP. Renowned for his harpistry and to many through his recordings of music by Benjamin Britten (with whom he worked closely), this extremely rare recording, made for L'Oiseau-Lyre in 1961 here receives its first release on CD. What makes it even more of a collector's item is the fact that Ellis is both singer and harpist on this recording. It ranges from Baroque songs to music from the nineteenth century (Boughton's once-popular Faery Song) to folk songs from Wales, and includes a composition ('O mistress mine') by Ellis himself.

"[the songs are] launched and sustained with arresting expressiveness. […] The whole gamut of moods in the Welsh songs is found to be more artfully arranged when one has played it through several times. I found many of the songs, unfamiliar at first, growing on me as I repeated them. […] I found the recording easy and realistic … and enjoyable." (Gramophone)

Tracks:

Song of the Sea Captain (Cywydd Tomos Prys)
Penillion Songs - settings by Ellis
Invitation to Dyddgu (I wahodd Dyddgu)
Penillion Songs - settings by Ellis
A Sunset Poem
Penillion Songs - settings by Ellis

anon.:
Blackbird, wilt thou go? (Ei di'ir deryn dur?)

Arne:
Come away, death

Boughton:
Faery Song

Campion:
There is a Garden in her face

Dowland:
Sweet stay awhile

Ellis, O:
O Mistress Mine

Jones, Robert:
Sweet Kate

Leslie:
Annabelle Lee

Pilkington:
Rest sweet Nimphs

Rosseter:
What then is love but mourning?

trad.:
Song of the Birds (Rew di Ranno)
A B C
Song of the Miller (Cân y Melinydd)
Longing (Hiraeth)
The Loom (Y Gwŷdd)
Song of Gwenny (Gwenni aeth i Ffair Bwllheli)
By the Seashore (Ar lan y mor)
Where are you going to, my pretty maid?
Morning Song (Y bore glas)
Where is my love? (Pa le mae nghariad?)
As I walked out (Pan oeddwn ar ddydd yn cyd-rodio)
The Old Man's Ballad (Pan oeddwn i gynt yn fachgen)
The Slumber Song (Cysga Di)
Gee up, little horse (Gee ceffyl bach)