Скачать или смотреть Lloer Dirion Lliw'r Dydd | Songs for the Earth (EFG London Jazz Festival 2022)

Lloer Dirion Lliw'r Dydd (Gentle Moon the Colour of Day)

Traditional Welsh folk song
Arranged by Misha Mullov-Abbado

An instrumental version of a Welsh-language folk song honouring the moon. A translation of the lyrics is at the bottom underneath the description of the ensemble.

Bridget O'Donnell - violin
Simmy Singh - violin
Dave Shaw - viola
Deni Teo - cello
Misha Mullov-Abbado - double bass

Songs for the Earth is a fusion of folk, jazz and classical music, inspired by our need to connect with nature and the outdoors. This programme is curated, directed and arranged by violinist Bridget O’Donnell, originally from Sydney, who is part of London’s dynamic free-lance classical scene and plays regularly in chamber and contemporary groups as well as with the city’s top orchestras, and jazz bass player, composer, arranger and bandleader Misha Mullov-Abbado (2017 BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist). Both have worked together on a release for October House Records, and more recently with Sinfonia Cymru introducing this very programme for the first time ever, where they shared some of their arrangements and recordings of this music on Cerys Matthews’ show on BBC 6 Music. The full ensemble is a five-piece string group made up of the UK’s finest young talent in the classical, contemporary and jazz scenes, and this project will take you through a range of different styles and moods.

Song lyrics translation:

Gentle moon the colour of day,
in pain and in sorrow, I’m in a sad daydream.
From splendid astonishment,
my heart is so weak I shan’t live much longer.
When I saw your face you wounded me like a sword,
I received an injury without realising it,
tonight I’m ready for my grave.
Oh good gentle goddess, hear this injured man,
save my life, lovely moon the colour of summer.
Some people’s interests lie in material things,
but on the purity of a fair moon
I gave my whole intentions, one and all.
If I could only have you, I would confidently proclaim
that I had more than enough wealth, pure girl.