Samples can be heard by clicking on
tracks in blue.
For some of our YouTube recordings
please click here.
Our
latest recording was made at our Annual Concert in
June 2018, this is probably our best recording so
far. This recording, "Annual Concert
2018", is available on CD (£10.00).
1. Morte Criste Emrys
Jones
2. Ave Maria
Beppi de
Marzo
3. Nella
Fantasia
Morreconi arr Gwalia Singers
4. How Great Thou
Art Arr Jim Clancy 5. O
Gymru
Rhys Jones arr James/Howard /Gwalia
Singers
6. Ar Hyd Y
Nos
Trad. arr Gwalia Singers
7. Cwm
Rhondda
John Hughes arr
Gwalia Singers
8. Hey, Look Me
Over Cy
Coleman arr Clay Warwick
9. Hard to Say I'm
Sorry Cetera/Foster arr
Gwalia Singers
10. God Only Knows
Wilson/Asher arr Gwalia
Singers
11. If I Can Dream
Browne arr Gwalia Singers
12. He Ain't Heavy, He's My
Brother
Scott/Russell arr Gwalia Singers
13.Angels
Williams arr D Lawrence
14. American Trilogy
Newbury arr Humphreys
15. Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
On the 18th
June,2016 we celebrated our 50th Anniversary and
performed a concert in the Brangwyn Hall.
This concert was recorded and the "50th
Anniversary Concert" is available on CD
(£8.00)
1. Sanctaidd
Ior J
Richards (Isalaw) Arr Gwalia Singers
2. Benedictus
Robat Arwyn
3. The
Lord�s Prayer A H
Malotte
4. I�m Gonna
Walk Trad. Arr
Alwyn Humphreys 5. Prayer
(Lohengrin)
Richard Wagner Arr G Mead
6. Light
A Candle
Marta Keene Arr Simon Oram
7. Memories of the Great
War
Medley Arr Gwalia Singers
8. The Rhythm Of Life
(Sweet Charity) Cy
Coleman Arr Barnes
9. Somewhere Only We
Know
Rice-Oxley/Hughes/Chaplin Arr
Anders/Astrom
10. You Raise Me Up
Lovland/Graham Arr
Simmons
11. If I Can Dream
Brown Arr Gwalia SIngers
12. This Is The Moment
(Jekyll and
Hyde) Wildhorn/Bricusse Arr
Huw Rees
13. You Are So Beautiful
Preston/Fisher/Henley/Silbar Arr Gilpin
14. An American Trilogy
Newbury Arr Alwyn Humphreys
15.
Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
In January 2012 we recorded "A
New Dawn", this is available on CD (£5.00)
4. Exodus Song 5. Light A
Candle
6. I'm Gonna Walk
7. The Lost Chord
8. Hallellujah
9. Seize The Day from 'Newsies'
10.
You Raise Me Up 11. The Longest Time 12. Llanfair
13. Bring Him Home
14. American Trilogy
In May 2006 we recorded Forty
Years On, this is available on CD £0.00)
1. African Prayer
2. Cantique de Jean Racine
3. What Shall We Do With The Drunken
Sailor? 4. The Water Is Wide 5. Adiemus
6. The Drummer And The Cook 7. Calon Lan
8. Treasure The Life
9. Cole Porter Medley
10. The Rose
11. Bridge Over Troubled Water
12. All You Were And All You Are
13. Angels
14. Bring Him
Home
15. Alexander's Ragtime Band
Our
previous recording, A Lighter Shade of Blue,
is also still available on both
CD (£10.00) and cassette (£6.00).
1. When
The Saints Go Marching In
2. A Smuggler's Song
3. Sunrise, Sunset
4. Vive L'Amour 5. Hafan
Gobaith
6. Ar Hyd Y Nos
7. Nirvana
8. Gwahoddiad
9. Gospel Train
10. Sospan Fach
11. Abba Medley
12. Sentimental Journey
13. Rhythm Of Life
14. Tydi A Roddaist
Samples can be heard by clicking on
tracks 1 and/or 5.
Out of the Blue was issued on
vinyl and cassette in 1990.
Side 1
1. What a
Wonderful World
2. Danny Boy
3. Scarborough Fair
4. Sunrise, Sunset
5. Autumn Leaves
6. Let's Do It
Side 2
1.
Fanfare
2.
Sunset Poem
3. Viva Tutti
4. Zara
5. Dana Dana
6. The Drummer and the Cook
7. Amen
8. By Babylon's Wave
A 7" single
was released in 1983 in time for Christmas - When
a Child is Born
b/w White Christmas. This was recorded
with Olchfa School Big Band and Choir,
with pupil Sarah Harries performing the
narration.
An LP, simply titled The
Gwalia Singers, Swansea, was recorded in
1982 and released on the Black Mountain Records
label.
Side 1
1. Bryn Myrddin
2. Yesterday
3. Feasting I Watch
4. You Are the New Day
5. Three Hungarian Folk Songs
6. Y Deryn Pur
7. Love Could I only tell Thee
Side 2
1. There is
nothin' like a Dame
2. Some Enchanted Evening
3. Close Thine Eyes
4. Gloria (Mozart's 12th Mass)
5. Cavatina
6. Begin the Beguine
7. Weinland
Stop the Cavalry was
written by Jona Lewie and his version was
recorded for
Stiff Records in 1980. In 1981, the Gwalia
Singers teamed up with the Cory
Band to record their version, which was also
released by Stiff Records. The b side was a
version of Paul Anka's song, The Longest Day.
To order our more recent
CD's, please contact the choir's
secretary
(details on the 'Contact'
page).
Some
Recordings of the Gwalia Singers on YouTube. [Click
on the blue links to go to the YouTube
videos]
1980 Stop
The Cavalry -This is a song originally written and
performed by Jona Lewie. Here the Gwalia
Singers perform with the Cory Band. The
song peaked at number three in the UK Singles
Chart in December 1980. The song was never
intended as a Christmas hit, but is
often played around Christmas time.
2009 Abba Medley- Money, Money Money and Thank you for
the Music, The Gwalia singers at Disneyland
in Paris for the 2009 Welsh Festival.
2012 The Longest Time -In January
2012, Swansea's Gwalia Singers recorded 'The
Longest Time' by Billy Joel at All Saints
Church in Mumbles. Cwm Rhondda -Gwalia Singers giving
an impromptu performance of Cwm Rhondda on 28th
September 2012 in Saint Catherine's Church ,
Oppenheim during their visit to Germany to
celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the GV
Teutonia 1862 choir from Mannheim-Feudenheim. You Raise Me Up- Gwalia Singers from
Swansea singing "You Raise Me Up" on 29th
September 2012 during the 150th Anniversary
celebration of the GV Teutonia 1862 choir held
in the Kulturhalle, Mannheim - Feudenheim,
Germany.
Bring
Him Home - This recording was made
for the Gwalia Singers CD called 'A New
Dawn'. We have not sung this for several
years so I hope you enjoy it.
2015 Angels - Gwalia Singers from Swansea singing
Angels at their Annual Concert on the 27th
June 2015.
Delilah- Gwalia
Singers from Swansea singing Delilah at their
Annual Concert on the 27th June 2015. American
Trilogy - The
Gwalia Singers on their concert tour of Emmeloord
in Holland. This was recorded at the Nieuw
Jeruzalemkerk on the 9th October. Rhythm of
Life - The
Gwalia Singers on their concert tour of
Emmeloord in Holland. This was
recorded at the Nieuw Jeruzalemkerk on the
9th October. You Are So
Beautiful - The
Gwalia Singers on their concert tour
of Emmeloord in Holland. This was
recorded at the Nieuw Jeruzalemkerk on the
9th October. You'll Never Walk
Alone - Sung with the Christelijk Mannenkoor in
Emmeloord 9 October 2015 while on our concert
tour of Holland. The Rose- Sung
at a concert Concert in Tollebeek with the
Cantabile and Canticum choirs on the 10th
October 2015 while on our Concert Tour to Holland. Stop
The Cavalry -Gwalia Singers singing Stop The Cavalry at
the Ladies Charity Concert on the 8th December
2015. We originally recorded it in 1981 with the
Cory Band. See
more details and listen to the original in the
first link on the page. Save our
Male Voice Choirs!-
A promotional
video, done in conjunction with Focus Shift Films,
who are filming with Blaenavon Male Choir, and
making a documentary about the problem of
recruitment in male choirs. We hope you enjoy it
and, if so, why not come along and sing with us? Y
Tangnefeddwyr -
We sung this at All Saints Church, Oystermouth, at the end of November 2015, our first Christmas concert that year.
2016 Santa Claus Is
Comin' To Town - Gwalia Singers (Swansea) performing at
the Ladies Charity Concert on the Tuesday 6th
December 2016. Merry
Christmas Everyone - The Gwalia Singers at a charity concert
in the Vivian Hall, Blackpill, Swansea on
Thursday 8th December 2016. You
Raise Me - The Gwalia Singers at a charity
concert in the Vivian Hall, Blackpill,
Swansea on Thursday 8th December 2016.
2018 Cwm
Rhondda - Gwalia Singers sing
Cwm Rhondda at St Mary's Church Swansea
for a Joint Concert with the Newquay Male
Voice Choir on 21st April 2018. How Great
Thou Art - Singing at their Annual
Concert in All Saints Church in Oystermouth
on the 23rd June 2018. Hard To Say
I'm Sorry -
Singing at their Annual Concert in All Saints
Church in Oystermouth on the 23rd June 2018. Ave Maria -
Singing 'Ave Maria' at our Annual Concert in All
Saints Church in Oystermouth, Swansea on the 23rd
June 2018 Cwm Rhondda
- In the Great Hall at Laboe Ehrenmals, a memorial
to sailors killed in World War II, while on their
concert tour to Kiel on the 28th September.
Sanctus by Schubert - In the Great Hall at
Laboe Ehrenmals, a memorial to all sailors
killed in World War II, on our concert tour to
Kiel on the 28th September. One
More Mile to Go - One More
Mile to Go by Chris de Burgh sung at the Christmas
Concert at the Vivian Hall, Black Pill, Swansea on
Thursday 13th December