World-renowned bass-baritone Bryn Terfel is the heart and soul of this album's special assemblage of Welsh and international top talent for a very personal, intimate album of his favorite Christmas carols and songs from around the world and from his native Wales.
The guest list for this studio recording is lead by the immortal Bing Crosby - as a tribute to Bing Crosby the legendary singer and actor Bryn has recorded a new duet version of "White Christmas". Other guests are the tenor Rolando Villazón who joined in for the beautiful Spanish Christmas song "El nacimento", as well as the brilliant Welsh harpist Catrin Finch.
Bryn's favorite international and Welsh carols and songs are played brilliantly in new and original arrangements by Mack Wilberg (music director of Mormon Tabernacle Choir) and Chris Hazell. The exciting arrangements for such well-known carols makes this the perfect soundtrack for the holidays.
Bryn Terfel is perhaps the most famous bass-baritone in the world today: he has performed at every major opera house and his many recordings of both opera and popular music are consistently #1 hits. This new album of popular folk songs of the British Isles is a follow-up to his Grammy® award winning Simple Gifts. As on the previous album, Bryn collaborates with Chris Hazell who has lushly orchestrated and arranged the songs. Bryn is joined by multi-platinum selling Irish pop-star Ronan Keating in the classic, Danny Boy. Other collaborators include Sharon Corr from the Irish pop-band The Corrs and up-and-coming English soprano Kate Royal.
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Bad Boys Music Artist : Bryn Terfel Music Label : Deutsche Grammophon Release Date : 2010-04-13 Artistopia's Price :$15.91
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Bad Boys is a line up of some of the most unscrupulous, cynical, devious, roguish musical villains of the opera stage. Bryn Terfel calls them the "demonic misfits and malcontents of this wonderful music." Internationally acclaimed star Bryn Terfel, a gentle man in real life, recruits a gang of "bad boy" characters from opera and musicals to electrify us with tunes from the sinister side of the bass clef. Thoroughly convincing as villains you would not want to meet alone in the dark, Bryn Terfel wields a full, wide ranging bass-baritone ever in service to dramatic instincts rare in any era. No singer morphs from Don Giovanni to "Mack the Knife" to Sweeney Todd with Terfel's devilish ease--Bad Boys is a delightful box of mixed musical bonbons. Grammophone writes: "[Terfel's] powerful vocal presence is born of physical presence and he harnesses words, in any language, like few others." Bryn will be performing one of the bad boys, Scarpia from Tosca at The Metropolitan Opera from April 14-24th.
