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01. CERYS MATTHEWS - A Child's Christmas - Theme
02. CERYS MATTHEWS - We Waited to Snowball the Cats
03. CERYS MATTHEWS - "Fire!", Cried Mrs Prothero
04. CERYS MATTHEWS - Years And Years Ago (feat. Catrin Finch)
05. CERYS MATTHEWS - The Useful, And the Useless Presents
06. CERYS MATTHEWS - Bell Tongued Ball of Holidays
07. CERYS MATTHEWS - There are Always Uncles at Christmas
08. CERYS MATTHEWS - To Walk into the Waves
09. CERYS MATTHEWS - Turkey and Blazing Pudding
10. CERYS MATTHEWS - Hippos
11. CERYS MATTHEWS - The Hooting of Ships and Auntie Hannah's Rum Tea
12. CERYS MATTHEWS - Ghost Story
13. CERYS MATTHEWS - Home Sweet Home and Auld Lang Syne
14. CERYS MATTHEWS - The Close and Holy Darkness
15. CERYS MATTHEWS - A Child's Christmas - End
01. CERYS MATTHEWS - Mr And Mrs. Cherry Owen (Under Milk Wood)
02. CERYS MATTHEWS - In My Craft or Sullen Art
03. CERYS MATTHEWS - Should Lanterns Shine
04. CERYS MATTHEWS - 'Am Going to Read Aloud'
05. CERYS MATTHEWS - Laugharne
06. CERYS MATTHEWS - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
07. CERYS MATTHEWS - Captain Cat and His Drowned Sailors (Under Milk Wood)
08. CERYS MATTHEWS - The Hand That Signed the Paper
09. CERYS MATTHEWS - Being but Men
10. CERYS MATTHEWS - Fern Hill
11. CERYS MATTHEWS - That Sanity Be Kept
12. CERYS MATTHEWS - The Hunchback in the Park
13. CERYS MATTHEWS - And Death Shall Have No Dominion
14. CERYS MATTHEWS - The Reverend Eli Jenkins' Prayer
15. CERYS MATTHEWS - Main Christmas Theme
16. CERYS MATTHEWS - Cats
17. CERYS MATTHEWS - Fire!
18. CERYS MATTHEWS - Years Ago
19. CERYS MATTHEWS - Presents
20. CERYS MATTHEWS - Holidays
21. CERYS MATTHEWS - Uncles
22. CERYS MATTHEWS - Walks
23. CERYS MATTHEWS - Turkey
24. CERYS MATTHEWS - Tickled Hippos
25. CERYS MATTHEWS - Hooting Ships
26. CERYS MATTHEWS - Ghost
27. CERYS MATTHEWS - Home Sweet Home
28. CERYS MATTHEWS - Bedtime
29. CERYS MATTHEWS - Main Christmas Theme End
ARTIST
TITLE
Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas, Poems and Tiger Eggs
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
MARVEL 001CD MARVEL 001CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/13/2015

2014 release; released to coincide with the centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth on October 27, 1914. Cerys Matthews writes: "Dylan Thomas was always present in my life -- we shared the same view of the crescent shaped Swansea bay, and my uncle Colin Edwards amassed the largest amount of interviews on him, starting in the years following Dylan's tragic death in New York City. Colin would talk to us about him for hours, and it wasn't long before I too fell for his magical, maverick voice. 'The world is never the same place once a good poem has been added to it'. Said Dylan, who never prefaced his readings with explanations, but rather with a simple 'I am going to read aloud now'. Reading his work aloud, feeling those syllables roll around your mouth with the rhythms finding their own ebb and flow is one of life's greatest pleasures. In Welsh (and similarly in Somali) there is only one word to cover both music and poetry -- the powerful, transformative qualities of each have always lead me to treat them both with a similar approach. I often hear music when I read great writing, especially Dylan's, which is so infused with melody and rhythm, and so the idea for this project was born. Jeff Towns, Chairman of the Dylan Thomas Society, and owner of the one and only 'Dylan Thomas Mobile Book Bus' has written the notes on the poems, excerpts and short story released in this double album and also generously shares with us some of his wonderful collection of Dylan Thomas photographs and illustrations. Choosing the works presented here seemed to come naturally, some are familiar, some more obscure. As for 'A Child's Christmas in Wales'? Well, I've always loved the matrimony of music and narration in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and dreamed, many years ago, that 'A Child's Christmas' should also 'dance' with music. Together with composer and arranger Mason Neely from Chattanooga, I began working toward this goal. With the help of some of the country's leading players and soloists -- Catrin Finch on harp, Alice Neary on cello, and David Adams on violin, we made this a reality. Tiger eggs indeed." 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."