Simple Gifts

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Album Summary

Performers

• Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Simon Keenlyside (Baritone)
• Aled Jones (Boy Soprano)
• John Williams (Guitar)

Conductor

• Wordsworth, Barry

Ensembles

• London Symphony Orchestra
• London Voices

Composers

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Alan Murray (1890 - 1952)
• Joseph Brackett
• May H. Brahe (a.k.a. Stanley Dickson or May H. Mor) (1882 - 1956)
• Amanda McBroom (1946 - )
• Anonymous, English
• Stephen Sondheim (1930 - )
• Traditional Spiritual
• Giovanni Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
• Anonymous, Swedish
• Karl Jenkins (Composer) (1944 - )
• James P. Carrell (1787 - 1854)
• Lowell Mason (1792 - 1872)
• William G. Tomer (1833 - 1896)
• John Rutter (1945 - )
• Christmas Traditional
• César Franck (1822 - 1890)
• Stanley Myers (1933 - 1993)
• W.S. Gwynn Williams (1896 - 1978)
• Charles Gounod (Composer) (1818 - 1893)

Notes & Reviews:

This disc, entitled Simple Gifts presents Bryn Terfels favorite sacred, spiritual and inspirational songs, in new orchestral arrangements of Chris Hazell, including Deep River, John Rutters moving setting of The Lord Bless You and Keep You, the Shaker hymn, Simple Gifts, Bach/Gounods Ave Maria and more. Guest artists here include tenor Aled Jones, guitarist John Williams and baritone Simon Keenleyside. one of Wales greatest musical exports [who] has performed with technical brilliance and wonderful style in all of the great opera houses around the world Bryn is a big man with a big voice and a big heart. - Gramophone Awards Issue, 2004

Notes & Reviews:

This album received the 2007 Grammy Award for "Best Classical Crossover Album."

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Works Details

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Ave verum corpus

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1791
• Language: Latin
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional Spiritual : Deep River

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 5 min. 12 sec.
• Written: by 1875
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Rutter, John : Lord bless you and keep you

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Voices
• Running Time: 2 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1981
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Murray, Alan : I'll Walk Beside You

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1936
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Pergolesi, Giovanni : Stabat Mater

• Performers: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone); Simon Keenlyside (Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 4 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1736-1736
• Language: Latin
• Studio/Live: Studio

Traditional, Christmas : Still, Still, Still (Stille, stille, stille) (Austrian)

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Voices
• Notes: This selection is sung in English and German.
• Running Time: 4 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1819
• Studio/Live: Studio

Brackett, Joseph : Simple Gifts

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 12 sec.
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Anonymous, Swedish : How Great Thou Art (Tune :: O store Gud)

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Notes: This selection is sung in English and Swedish.
• Running Time: 4 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral
• Studio/Live: Studio

Franck, César : Panis angelicus

• Performers: Aled Jones (Boy Soprano); Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1872
• Language: Latin
• Studio/Live: Studio

Stan, May H. Brahe (a.k.a. : Bless This House, for chorus & keyboard

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Jenkins, Karl [Composer] : Ave Verum Corpus, for baritone & orchestra

• Performers: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone); Simon Keenlyside (Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 2005
• Language: Latin
• Studio/Live: Studio

Myers, Stanley : He was beautiful :: She Was Beautiful (Cavatina)

• Performers: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone); John Williams (Guitar)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Film Score
• Written: 1978
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

McBroom, Amanda : The Rose

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Voices
• Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Carrell, James P. : Amazing Grace (Tune :: New Britain)

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 4 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Williams, W.S. Gwynn : Mae ehangder (God's Mercy)

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Notes: This selection is sung in English and Welsh.
• Running Time: 3 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Studio/Live: Studio

Anonymous, English : Morning Has Broken, song (Tune :: Bunessan)

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 30 sec.
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1931
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Mason, Lowell : Nearer, my God, to Thee

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Gounod, Charles : Ave Maria

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: circa 1852
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Sondheim, Stephen : Send in the Clowns (for the musical A Little Night Music)

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 4 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1973
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio

Tomer, William G. : God Be With You Till We Meet Again

• Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
• Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Language: English
• Studio/Live: Studio