• Ben Parry
  • All Through the Night
    (Ar Hyd A Nos)

  • Peters Edition Limited (World)

Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, London 2014

  • B + SATB
  • SATB
  • Bass
  • 4 min

Programme Note

An arrangement of the Welsh traditional song 'Ar Hyd A Nos' (ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT) for Bass Solo and SATB setting the English text translation by Walter Maynard (Thomas Willert Beale). Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, London for the Portrait Gala and first performed there on 11th February 2014 by Sir Willard White (solo) and the Portrait Choir, conducted by Gregory Batsleer. 

A version in Welsh – which features on The Hours” album recorded in 2019 by the Choir of Royal Holloway – is also available.

Media

Discography

Ben Parry: The Hours

Ben Parry: The Hours
  • Label
    Signum Classics
  • Catalogue Number
    SIGCD629
  • Conductor
    Rupert Gough
  • Ensemble
    Choir of Royal Holloway
  • Released
    1st May 2020