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Bryn Terfel in Wales, the latest Met Stars Live in Concert, reviewed by MARIA NOCKIN

On Saturday 12 December 2020, the Metropolitan Opera streamed a Met Stars concert starring Sir Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone, in a holiday program from Brecon Cathedral in Wales. Host Christine Goerke introduced Met General Manager Peter Gelb despite a few blips in reception.

SATB version of the Benedictus which was recorded recently by The Priests and Bryn Terfel and Rhys Meirion.Recorded by an audience member (and used with perm. 🌟 Wythnos i fynd / A week to go 🌟 I will be releasing my debut album on Friday the 23rd o October 📀 this is the first track on the album, Shenandoah (arr. Brian Hughes 🎶 📩 Comment or send a message if you’d like to receive a copy and I will make sure it arrived by the release date - the pre-order list is growing 🙌🏼 / Mi fyddai’n rhyddhau fy albym. Sheet music for Robat Arwyn: Benedictus: buy online. Published by Curiad. Composer: Arwyn, Robat. Robat Arwyn (born November 1959) is a musical composer from Ruthin, North Wales, best known for his many Welsh-language songs. His notable compositions include the songs 'Anfonaf Angel' and 'Benedictus'.Arwyn was born in Talysarn, in the Nantlle valley, under the name Robert Arwyn Jones, and studied Music at Cardiff University before qualifying as a librarian.

Terfel, harpist Hannah Stone, pianist Jeff Howard, soprano Natalya Romaniw, tenor Trystan Llyr Griffiths and the traditional Welsh folk group Calan performed in Brecon Cathedral in Wales. The church was originally constructed in the eleventh century but rebuilt in the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries. Hundreds of massed candles lit the interior, shadows from which delineated the outlines of the building's weight-bearing Gothic arches. Exterior lighting made the colors of the stained glass windows visible, and varied reflective surfaces, including sequined gowns, contributed to the play of light in the broadcast picture.


Bryn Terfel in Brecon Cathedral

Terfel and pianist Jeff Howard opened with Guardian Angel by Robat Arwyn, a composer best known for his Welsh songs. First Terfel sang in English and later in Welsh, but there were subtitles for every song on this program so language was never a problem. Although he has been singing professionally for more than thirty years, he still has a gorgeous pianissimo and a wide range of dynamics. Terfel followed it with Franz Xaver Gruber's Silent Night (Stille Nacht) accompanied by harpist Hannah Stone who played with finesse but ended on an unexpected note.


Bryn Terfel and Hannah Stone rehearsing in Brecon Cathedral for the 12 December 2020 MetStars Live concert

Welsh tenor Trystan Llyr Griffiths joined Terfel and Howard for El Nacimiento by Argentine composer and folk music specialist Ariel RamĂ­rez, composer of the Misa Criolla. Their duet in close harmony exhibited the beauty of operatically trained male voices. Griffiths and Howard performed Schubert's Ave Maria in the version that uses the well known prayer for its text. It's interesting to note that the composer originally wrote the work to the text of a prayer to the Virgin in Scott's Lady of the Lake.

Folk group Calan performed Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter and the traditional New Year's Eve in Caernarfon with great gusto and enormous energy. They danced while they played faster and faster than that. If times were not so dire, Caernarfon Castle might be the best place in the world to greet the new year with song, dance and Welsh-grown sparkling wine.


The Welsh folk band Calan

While Calan took a break, harpist Hannah Stone played Carlos Salzedo's Concert Variations on O Tannenbaum giving each tone the glint of a falling snowflake. Sir Bryn sang Jester Joseph Hairston's delightful Christmas Spiritual, Mary's Boy Child, which along with the song in Spanish gave a nod to the diversity of his English-speaking audience. Lerner and Loewe's recitative-like The Little Prince led up to Sir Bryn's glorious rendition of the traditional German carol, Still, still, still with glistening harp accompaniment.

Benedictus, by the composer of Guardian Angel, Robat Arwyn, is a setting of a part of the Catholic Mass that fits the holiday season, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord'. Romaniw and Terfel sang with spiritual intensity, and she continued singing Adolphe Adam's much better known O Holy Night with silvery high notes.

Terfel and pianist Jeff Howard offered a thoughtful rendition of I Can Give You the Starlight from Ivor Novello's 1939 musical The Dancing Years. Then came the best song of the day, the traditional Welsh, Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night) which Terfel sang with Calan. This traditional Welsh song simply exudes calm, especially when performed by people to whom it has great meaning. This rendition was a gem.

Terfel followed it with Wagner's Hymn to the Evening Star accompanied by piano and harp. Its text speaks of souls ascending to heaven, perhaps a blessed thought in this time of COVID. The finale was a performance of John Francis Wade's O Come, All Ye Faithful by all the participants. I particularly enjoyed the tenor's singing of the high line usually given to sopranos. It gave the oft-heard piece an unusually enjoyable flair.


A still frame from a New York Metropolitan Opera promotional video for this Bryn Terfel concert

This concert is a delightful addition to Christmas entertainment and it will be available online for US$ 20 at metstarslive.brightcove-services.com through 25 December 2020.

Copyright © 14 December 2020Maria Nockin,
Arizona USA

The background image on this page has been derived from a circa 1865 tinted lithograph print of Priory Church Brecon in Wales, which later became Brecon Cathedral, viewed from the River Tarell.

Cymraeg/ Welsh

Anfonaf Angel - Robat Arwyn -geiriau Hywel Gwynfryn.

Ar hyd y nos (All through the Night) arr Harry Evans

Yr Anthem Geltaidd (Celtic Anthem) Hefin Elis arr D.Eifion Thomas

Oes Gafr Eto (Folksong)

Si hei Lwli Mabi (Folksong Lullaby)

Suo Gan (trad. Lullaby)

We’ll keep a welcome Mai Jones

Hafan Gobaith (Another day)Delyth Rees arr Valerie Hoppe

Myfanwy Dr Joseph Parry

Pan fo’r nos yn hir (When the night is long) Ryan Davies

Y Weddi (The Prayer) Arr. Mark Hayes.

Gweddi Affricanaidd (African Prayer) J Sontonga

Merch y Syrcas- Eric Jones, geiriau Arwel John

Safwn yn y Bwlch - Richard Morris ,ArrJ Glyn Williams

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Opera

La Vergine degli Angeli La Fortza de Destino Verdi

Divine Brahma The Pearl Fishers Bizet

Cytgan yr Helwyr Der Freischutz Carl Maria von Weber

Oh Isis and OsirisThe Magic Flute Mozart

Poblogaidd / Popular

Dyrchefir Fi (You raise me up) Lovland & Graham

Dail yr Hydref (Autumn Leaves) Joseph Kosma arr Emyr Williams

Cenwch y Clychau i Dewi (Ring out the bells) Heulwen Thomas/ Gwenno Dafydd

Rhosyn Gwyn (The Rose) Amanda Broom arr Lyn Harry

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Pokarekare Ana arr Gwilym Lewis

I’ll walk beside you arr Clarence Lucas

Meinir Fwyn (Love me tender)

You’ll never walk alone arr Alwyn Hymphryes

A Welsoch chi fy nghariad i? (Five Foot two,) R Henderson arr Ruth Artman

Rhythm of Life - Cy Cloeman

World in Union (Ann lead vocals) arr Owen M. Roberts

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You are so Beautiful / Ti yw yr Harddaf Un. arr. Greg Gilpin

Silver Bird -Peter Canwell Arr. O.R

The Finnish Forest / Y Goedwig Werdd- arr Bryan Davies.

Sunset Poem/The Rev Eli Jenkins' Prayer- Dylan Thomas,AHD Troyte

Bless em All/ Pack up your Troubles in your old Kit Bag

The Fields of Athenry by Pete St John

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Delilah

Green Green Grass of Home

Unchained Melody Alex North arr William Stickles, lyric Hy Zaret

When I Fall in Love by Victor Young and Edward Hayman.

Only You (The Flying Pickets)

Yfory by Robat Arwyn

Crefyddol / Religious

Tydi a Roddaist. by Arwel Hughes , words by T Rowland Hughes

Cwm Rhondda-John Hurbes, Arr Haydn Jones

Mae d’eisiau (I need Thee) R.Lowry arr John Tudor Davies

Gwahoddiad (Invitation-) arr John Tudor Davies

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Ave Maria- Caccini , arr Alwyn Hymphryes

The blessing of Aaron - Norman Ramsey arr Owen M. Roberts

Robat

Laudamus (Bryn Calfaria)-William Owen arr Daniel Protheroe

Morte Criste- Emrys Jones

The Creation - Willy Richter

Panis Angelicus - C. Franck

Benedictus - Robat Arwyn

Calon Lan - arr. O. M. Roberts

Abide With Me - WH Monk arr O M Roberts

Deep Harmony - Handel Parker,geiriau David Charles

Nadolig Pwy a Wyr-.Ryan Davies arr Alwyn Humphries

Spirituals

Yn dy Gerbyd (Ride the Chariot)arr William Henry Smith

I’m Gonna Walkarr Alwyn Humphryes

Silver Trumpet arr J. Raymond Williams

Jacob’s Ladder arr J.H.Davies

My Lord, what a mornin’

Give me that old time religion arr Alan Simmons

Dos lawr Moses ( Go down Moses ) arr. H. S. Roberton

The Gospel Train -Traditional (arr.John Daniel

Every Time I Feel The Spirit- Traditional Arr Derek Jones

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Eraill / Others

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With Cat-like tread (The Pirates of Penzance)Arthur Sullivan

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Dana – Dana Lajos Bárdos