Wales has an extended and proud custom of music, each non secular and secular. Not for nothing is it often known as the ‘Land of Music’.
Elsewhere on the web site, we checked out a number of the very best and most rousing Welsh songs: right here, we have chosen a number of the nation’s most stunning hymns.
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‘Information Me, O Thou Greet Redeemer’ (‘Bread of Heaven’)
This rousing hymn, usually often known as Wales’ second nationwide anthem (the official anthem is ‘Land of My Fathers’ / ‘Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau’), ‘Information Me, O Thou Nice Redeemer’ is a hymn written by the good Welsh hymnist William Williams (1717-1791), with a tune (often known as ‘Cwm Rhondda’) by John Hughes (1873–1932) in 1907.
Each the tune and hymn are sometimes popularly often known as ‘Bread of Heaven’, as that phrase is repeated usually in the course of the hymn and is likely one of the greatest hymns of all time.
Listed below are the lyrics to ‘Information Me, O Thou Nice Redeemer’.
The Welsh additionally like to sing it at rugby matches as effectively so we named it one of many greatest rugby songs
‘Cymru Fach’ (‘Dearest Wales’)
The title of this patriotic music is greatest translated into English as ‘Expensive (or Dearest) Wales’. The lyrics had been written in 1927 by Howell Elvett Lewis, a minister and hymn author. The music was composed by David Richards.
‘Hyfrydol’
That means ‘pleasant’, ‘nice’ or ‘melodious’, this stunning Welsh hymn tune has been pressed into service for varied lyrics. Composed by Rowland Prichard, it was initially printed within the composer’s handbook to the kids’s songbook Cyfaill y Cantorion (‘The Singers’ Buddy’) in 1844.
‘Hyfrydol’ has been used as a setting for varied hymns, together with William Chatterton Dix’s hymn ‘Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!’ and two hymns by Charles Wesley: ‘Love Divine, All Loves Excelling’ and ‘Come, Thou Lengthy Anticipated Jesus’.
Listed below are the phrases to ‘Love Divine, All Loves Excelling’.
Different hymns to make use of the ‘Hyfrydol’ melody embrace Francis Harold Rowley’s ‘I Will Sing the Wondrous Story’ (1886) and Philip Bliss’s ‘I Will Sing of My Redeemer’, from 1876.
‘Bro Aber’
This hymn, with a tune composed by John Haydn Phillips, got here prime in a ballot to search out Wales’ favorite hymn. It begins: ‘O tyred i’n gwaredu, Iesu da’ (‘O Christ now come and save us, save us, Lord’).
‘In Memoriam’
This hymn tune by Welsh composer Caradog Roberts (1878-1935) has been used as a setting for hymns together with ‘Arglwydd Iesu, arwain f’enaid’ (‘Lord Jesus, Information My Soul’) and ‘Jesus, from thy Servants taken’.
‘Gwahoddiad’
That means ‘invitation’ in Welsh, this hymn is also referred to as ‘Arglwydd Dyma Fi’ (‘Lord, Right here I Am’). Some will even know the hymn by its first line, ‘Mi glywaf dyner lais’ (‘I hear a mild voice’). It was initially the English-language gospel music ‘I Am Coming, Lord’, which begins ‘I hear thy welcome voice’. Phrases and tune alike had been written in 1872 by the American Methodist minister and gospel songwriter Lewis Hartsough (1828-1919).
‘Arwelfa’
This pretty tune is one other from the pen of John Hughes, he of ‘Bread of Heaven’ above. What’s extra, that is one other occasion of a tune being set to numerous completely different lyrics, together with ‘Come, Thou Fount of Each Blessing’ and ‘Arglwydd, gad im’ dawal orphwys’ (‘Lord, Let Me Relaxation in Peace’).
‘Tydi a roddaist’ (‘Thou Gavest’)
Composed in 1938 by the well-known conductor and composer Arwel Hughes, this in style Welsh hymn has been carried out by choirs up and down the nation – together with the well-known Treorchy Male Choir, as seen above. The lyrics, in the meantime, had been initially a poem by Thomas Rowland Hughes, twice a winner of the Chair on the Nationwide Eisteddfod.
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