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10,000 Voices II Various Artists Album 1993: EMI Classics, CDC 7 54889 2  Video: S4C CF013

Recorded live at Cardiff Arms Park on May 29 1993. Only the last two tracks on the CD are by Shirley Bassey. At the actual event she also sang Big Spender, which is not included on the CD, but it is on the video release. In the inlay 182 male voice choirs are listed who build the 10,000 Voices World Choir. Shirley also joins in for the Welsh national anthem at the end of the show. The orchestration was by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (except for track 14) under the musical direction and conduction of Owain Arwel Hughes. The concert was presented on BBC Radio 2 on September 4 1993.
 

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Track Listing

01. 0:44 - Introduction (By Victor Spinetti)
02. 0:59 - Fanfare
03. 3:40 - Llanfair (The World Choir)
04. 4:20 - Were you there (The World Choir)
05. 4:18 - Arwelfa (The World Choir)
06. 4:10 - La calunnia è un venticello (Paata Burchuladze)
07. 2:25 - Le Veau d'or (Paata Burchuladze)
08. 4:05 - Tydi a roddaist (The World Choir)
09. 2:53 - Nidaros (The World Choir)
10. 3:11 - Myfanwy (Wynford Evans)
11. 3:17 - Anvil Chorus (The World Choir)
12. 2:49 - Jacob's Ladder (The World Choir)
13. 2:58 - Soldiers' Chorus (The World Choir)
14. 3:37 - Dafydd y garreg wen (Oliver Sammons with harp by Catrin Finch)
15. 4:13 - Morte Criste (The World Choir)
16. 3:23 - Deus salutis (The World Choir)
17. 4:42 - Kalinka (The World Choir)
18. 3:04 - Eli Jenkins's Prayer (The World Choir & Wynford Evans)
19. 0:36 - Goldfinger fanfare
20. 3:56 - Something (Shirley Bassey)
21. 6:27 - Hey Jude (Shirley Bassey & choir joining at the end)

Sleeve Note By David Wyndham Lewis

The World Choir event was initially conceived at Cardiff Arms Park in 1990 and first came to fruition there on 23 May 1992. The proceedings opened (as scheduled) with the Four Bands of the Guards Division, accompanied by an (unscheduled) electrical storm of unprecedented ferocity. Nonetheless, the event was hailed as a success all over the world, as was the best selling EMI Classics record of it. Here indeed was a Welshman's dream come true.

Inevitably the question was asked: how do you follow that? The answer: with an even larger choir, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and soloists Wynford Evans (tenor), Paata Burchuladze (bass), Oliver Sammons (treble), Catrin Finch (harpist) and the incredible Shirley Bassey. This second World Choir event, held on the Spring Bank Holiday exactly a year after the first, was in every way an amazing night of music. Cheered on by a crowd of over 30,000, the choir was a sensation both in familiar choruses and in more intricate numbers such as Kalinka and Nidaros; while the soloists, sometimes singing alone, sometimes with the 10,000, gave, as this record shows, of their best.

It is said in Wales that there is only one man who can control a choir of 10,000, an array of soloists, a full symphony orchestra and the weather all at the same time, and that is Owain Arwel Hughes. The man who conceived and established the Welsh Proms held each July in Cardiff accepted the role of music director and conductor of the World Choir event on the strict understanding that only genuine male-voice choirs were invited to participate: choirs who rehearse and perform throughout the year, choirs whose members give up their own time to perfect the joy of four part harmony. The brilliant result of Owain's efforts and those of the participating choirs are here for all to listen to on this second EMI World Choir recording.
 

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