Dylan Thomas – A Child’s Christmas , Poems and Tiger Eggs

£10.00

It was a Christmas in South Carolina that reawakened Cerys’ love for Thomas and inspired her to mark his centenary with her most ambitious project yet – setting his words to music.

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Description

Includes the whole of’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales’  and poems including  Fern Hill, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, and And Death Shall Have No Dominion.

Reviews

Excellent album! Combines two of my favourite things: the writing of Dylan Thomas and the voice of Cerys Matthews. I have a special fondness for A Child’s Christmas as it was the first film I ever saw (an early black and white version). My mother took me to our local library for a screening when I was a little boy. I grew up to love all things Welsh, including Catatonia. So this is a really perfect set for me.

Dylan’s words are so deliciously descriptive to begin with, and Matthews’ lilting Welsh accent, and deep understanding of the culture illuminates them further. Her love of Dylan’s poetry shines throughout, and serves to make it accessible to a wide audience. Her own musicality, as well as the instrumental music, adds a playful element, which underlines the ‘child’s eye view ‘, and is indeed reminiscent of the music for ‘Peter and the Wolf ‘, which provided some of the inspiration for Matthews’ project. Savour it!

Tracks

Disk 1

  1. A Child’s Christmas Theme
  2. We Waited to Snowball the Cats
  3. ‘ Fire!’ Cried Mrs Prothero
  4. Years and Years Ago (Feat. Catrin Finch)
  5. The Useful, and the Useless Presents
  6. Bell Tongued Ball of Holidays
  7. There Are Always Uncles at Christmas
  8. To Walk Into the Waves
  9. Turkey and Blazing Pudding
  10. Hippos
  11. The Hooting of Ships and Auntie Hannah’s Rum Tea
  12. Ghost Story
  13. Home Sweet Home and Auld Lang Syne
  14. The Close and Holy Darkness
  15. A Child’s Christmas End
  16. A Child’s Christmas (Orchestra Only)

Disk 2

  1. Mr. And Mrs. Cherry Owen (Under Milkwood)
  2. In My Craft Or Sullen Art
  3. Should Lanterns Shine
  4. ‘I Am Going to Read Aloud’
  5. Laugharne
  6. Do Not Go Gentle
  7. Captain Cat and His Drowned Sailors (Under Milkwood)
  8. The Hand That Signed the Paper
  9. Being But Men
  10. Fern Hill
  11. That Sanity Be Kept
  12. The Hunchback in the Park
  13. And Death Shall Have No Dominion
  14. The Reverend Eli Jenkins’ Prayer

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