Our 2nd operatic album - on a huge scale! W/ combined forces of @WNOtweet Orchestra, Only Boys Aloud (The Aloud Charity) and cast inc Paul Carey Jones & Llio Evans. A Welsh-lang opera from Stephen McNeff and Gruff Rhys ... 2117/Hedd Wyn: youtu.be/94SnvaMyq5A #decemberdiscs

We hope you enjoyed our journey through #decemberdiscs – albums from our Tŷ Cerdd Records catalogue. Which one was your favourite?

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Nadolig Llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda!

🎼Mared Emlyn (a fantastic harpist in her own right) composed this work for Gwenllian Llyr - recorded for the first time on this album, which collects together Welsh harp music, old and new #decemberdiscs youtu.be/69cx_hbP2Ss

This song is a gem among gems. Contained on our Taliesin's Songbook collection, curated by Andrew Matthews-Owen – here is one of Wales's great composers, Grace Williams, setting her own text: ‘The Loom' #decemberdiscs youtu.be/ZiQEewKrxdU
Elin Manahan Thomas

🎺Tomos Williams Tomos Williams's jazz suite reflects on Welsh identity through a series of historical touchstones - here is a live performance of Tryweryn 1965 from the album Cwmwl Tystion / Witness #decemberdiscs
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CwmwlTystionIII/Empathy

The simultaneous presence of movement and stillness, of a type experienced in dreams, was @spower_steph's inspiration when composing Dreamtides, which appears on another 2022 release: 'Unbroken Threads' with Mary Hofman and Richard Ormrod #decemberdiscs youtu.be/AhBXWk7oWvM

🎵Sioned Terry performs one of Dilys Elwyn-Edwards's tender settings of folk songs, which appears on an album of Welsh songs – Nefoedd – with Brian Ellsbury at the piano. #decemberdiscs
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A short and sweet song to get you out of bed this morning (evoking distant memories of Spring... or looking toward it?). This comes from Elin Manahan Thomas and Brian Ellsbury's album of Morfydd Owen songs #decemberdiscs
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A portrait disc of one of Wales's leading composers, Six Palindromes is quintissential John Metcalf at his most playful and detailed. Listen carefully to find the musical palindromes within… #decemberdiscs youtu.be/upqxSTwrwbY
@ensemblemidtvest

Dathliad / Celebration - featuring the John S Davies singers performing commissions from their illustrious history - includes this gorgeous, tender, work by Meirion Wynn Jones, ‘Belovèd, let us love’ #decemberdiscs
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