Release Date: 26 February 2021
Label: Silva Classics / Silva Screen
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 738572605926
Description
The Fron Male Voice Choir celebrates St David's Day with the release of Echoes, their sixth recordingin the Voices of the Valley series, on 26 th February 2021.The Fron Male Voice Choir is one of the most successful choirs in the UK. Their debut album,released in November 2006, achieved double platinum sales and was nominated for a Classical BritAward. Following this initial success, the choir has toured extensively and their albums have sold inover 70 countries world-wide. The tracks from the Voices of the Valley series have since featured onnumerous compilations and artist albums.Full title Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir or Cor Meibion Froncysyllte, the Fron Male Voice Choir wasformed in 1947 and is based in the village of Froncysyllte near Llangollen in Denbighshire, Wales.Their association with the world-famous Tenor Luciano Pavarotti started in 1955. The Fron choirhosted the Societa Corale Gioachino Rossini from Modena, which won first prize at the LlangollenEisteddfod under the musical direction of Luciano's father, conductor Fernando Pavarotti. LucianoPavarotti claimed that him singing in the choir and this win inspired him to take up a singing career.Initially set up to compete in the Llangollen International Eisteddfod festival, The Fron Male VoiceChoir quickly developed into a first-class, modern choir. Following on their debut album success, theBBC classical music reviewer Michael Quinn reflects on the Fron Choir as "a good example of modernday Welsh Choir singing" and praises their "considerable close harmony talents, beauty of sound andimpressive technique".On Echoes, the modernity is reflected in both their choice of material and delivery; from Welshstaples such as Llanfair (Williams), O Iesu Mawr (David Charles) and Tydi A Roddaist (Hughes) andAmerican, Russian and Welsh sacred hymns (The Lord's Prayer, Spaseniye Sodelal) to Billy Joel's AndSo It Goes, Aznavour's She and musical numbers A Million Dreams (The Greatest Showman), Maria(West Side Story) and Bring Him Home (Les Mise
Tracklisting
Alex Heffes with Anoushka Shankar
Debbie Wiseman/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Keff McCulloch
Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea, Sara Barone
Richard Harvey
Robert Mellin & Gian-Piero Reverberi
Joe Stilgoe
David Arnold
Hans-Christoph Rademann, NDR Chor Hamburg
Chorwerk Ruhr, Florian Helgath
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Dionysos Now!
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
