Hello all

One can rejoice, because finally, the wonderful album by Meredydd Evans, with his wife, an octet chorus, harp and chamber orchestra, TRADITIONAL WELSH SONGS, has finally been released on CD!!!

It is available on Amazon.com, released by Essential Media Group (with no discernible catalogue number). The remaster is generally excellent, with but a few aural flaws of minor importance in the final track, Si Hei Lwli (sounding suspiciously like scratches on vinyl, so the transfers may have been made, not from masters, but from a record). There are no liner notes whatever (I was so hoping that they would include the lyrics, some of which I still have not found online), and there is not even full credit to the other artists (Phyllis Kinney (soprano), Mr Evans' wife; Maria Korchinksa (harp); the Tyrfan Octet; and the chamber orchestra conducted by Robert Docker, who also made the exquisite arrangements). Still, I tried repeatedly to transfer the vinyl records to CD, without very good results (and I ended up trying with perhaps half a dozen copies of the LP). Still, snap it up before it goes out of print!

Pob hwyl
John Marmaro