Bryn Terfel - Sea Songs
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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...
Bryn Terfel - Sea Songs
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
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Awards:
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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...
About
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".
Contents and tracklist
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Patrick Rimes (whistle), Patrick Rimes (bagpipes)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Simon Keenlyside (vocals), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Evan Carson (percussion)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Sion Owen (background vocalist), Phylip Nichols (background vocalist), Iwan Griffiths (background vocalist), Aled Powys Williams (background vocalist), Osian Rowlands (background vocalist), Calan, Samiwel Elias Humphreys (baritone guitar), Bethan Rhiannon (accordion), Shelley Musker-Turner (harp), Patrick Rimes (whistle)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Evan Carson (percussion), Sion Owen (background vocalist), Phylip Nichols (background vocalist), Iwan Griffiths (background vocalist), Aled Powys Williams (background vocalist), Osian Rowlands (background vocalist)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Fisherman's Friends, Bryn Terfel (vocals), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Patrick Rimes (piano), Evan Carson (percussion), Jon Cleave (vocals), Jeremy Brown (vocals), John Lethbridge (vocals), Toby Lobb (vocals), John McDonnell (vocals)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Eve Goodman (vocals), Hannah Stone (harp), Archie Churchill-Moss (accordion), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Patrick Rimes (viola)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Eve Goodman (vocals), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Archie Churchill-Moss (accordion), Patrick Rimes (whistle), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Evan Carson (percussion)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Sting (vocals), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Patrick Rimes (whistle)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Patrick Rimes (piano), Archie Churchill-Moss (accordion)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Evan Carson (percussion), Sion Owen (background vocalist), Phylip Nichols (background vocalist), Iwan Griffiths (background vocalist), Aled Powys Williams (background vocalist), Osian Rowlands (background vocalist)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Patrick Rimes (fiddle)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Calan, Samiwel Elias Humphreys (acoustic guitar), Samiwel Elias Humphreys (drum), Bethan Rhiannon (accordion), Shelley Musker-Turner (harp), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Patrick Rimes (whistle), Patrick Rimes (bagpipes)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Fisherman's Friends, Bryn Terfel (vocals), Archie Churchill-Moss (accordion), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Patrick Rimes (piano), Evan Carson (percussion), Jon Cleave (vocals), Jeremy Brown (vocals), John Lethbridge (vocals), Toby Lobb (vocals), John McDonnell (vocals)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Sion Owen (background vocalist), Phylip Nichols (background vocalist), Iwan Griffiths (background vocalist), Aled Powys Williams (background vocalist), Osian Rowlands (background vocalist)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Bryn Terfel (vocals), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Evan Carson (percussion), Patrick Rimes (whistle)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- Calan, Bryn Terfel (vocals), Sion Owen (background vocalist), Phylip Nichols (background vocalist), Iwan Griffiths (background vocalist), Aled Powys Williams (background vocalist), Osian Rowlands (background vocalist), Samiwel Elias Humphreys (baritone guitar), Bethan Rhiannon (accordion), Shelley Musker-Turner (harp), Patrick Rimes (whistle)
- Recorded: 2023-03-23
- Recording Venue: Acapela Studios, Cardiff
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalists 2024
March 2024
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.
10th February 2024
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.
