A Welsh Songbook

A Welsh Songbook | Part of Wales Week London

Elinor Rolfe Johnson, soprano  |  Ceri Wyn Griffith, actor  |  Gavin Roberts, piano

A recital of music from the ‘Land of Song’. Enjoy some beautiful Welsh art songs by Morfydd Owen,  Huw Watkins, Meirion Williams, Alun Hoddinot, Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, RS Hughes, E T Davies. If you didn’t know this music before, you’re in for a treat! The songs will be interspersed with readings by Glynne Davies, Dylan Thomas, Llewelyn Phillips, Gwyn Erfyl and Edward Thomas.

This concert is part of Wales Week London 2025: www.walesweek.london

PROGRAMME:

T. Glynne Davies, detholiad o ‘Hedydd yn yr Haul’

(excerpt from ‘Hedydd yn yr Haul’)

Morfydd Owen, Gweddi a Pechadyr

ET Davies, Ynys y plant

Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood, ‘To begin at the beginning. It is a still, dark night … ’ (1954 radio drama)

Huw Watkins, Echo

Meirion Williams, Pan ddaw’r nos’

Anon., ‘Hwiangerdd’ (7th century, the earliest surviving Welsh nursery rhyme)

Alun Hoddinot, Lullaby

Alun Hoddinot, Cysga di

Llewelyn Phillips, ‘Hen Efail’

Alun Hoddinot, Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn

Alun Hoddinot, Pedoli

Gwyn Erfyl, ‘Cariad’

Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, Y glomen

RS Hughes, Wyt ti’n cofio’r Lloer?

RS Hughes, Elen Fwyn

Edward Thomas, ’May 23rd’ (written in 1915)

Meirion Williams, Y blodau ger y drws

Meirion Williams, Mai