When I was in primary school in Cork City where I was born in 1938, we were taught to sing this great song from Wales ('All Through The Night') - in English. It made such a deep impression on me that I began to cry. Everybody stopped singing. I felt utterly lost. Our teacher, a master of gentleness, told the other boys that the class was over and allowed them to go home. Then Brother Oliver - a Christian Brother of the very best kind - went over the song with me again, line by line. Then he began to sing on his own while encouraging me to join in. Deeply moved both by the song and by the unexpected kindness, I stopped crying and began to sing too, my voice trembling at first and then gradually growing steady and more confident. It was my first introduction to Wales, my adopted homeland, where I have lived since 1960.
Fantastic. I love all Welsh music. It is soothing. I'm also proud to have Welsh blood in my veins. Wales will always be my spiritual home. Cymru am Byth!
Despite being raised in England, my blood, and heart are as Welsh as they can be. Cymru am Byth! This song always calms my soul. It's hilarious. not even knowing it's significance, and having heard it once, mom would sing the melody to me as an infant. Not realising she was singing an antiquity :) God bless Wales. A pure, Honest land with a pure name and a pure soul. I know that God loves all his children. But we Welshmen give him a lot of reason to be proud!!
I heard this song for the first time as a teenager and without knowing its significance to my family, loved it. It still calms me to my soul and is a part of my cherished heritage. It makes me proud to say I'm part Welsh.
There are few things more magical than a great instrument with potential for great power yet used with artistry and sensitivity. I can bathe in the lushness of this man's sound but then I lose myself in his interpretations which are invariably superb.
The song is a Welsh lullaby and as Bryn is Welsh and his first language is Welsh, you cannot get much closer to the original spirit of the song. I am sure also that his mother sang this to him as a child as my mother did to me.
Superb ! Love this Melody and sung beautifully .There is something extra special about a gentle melody,sung by an extraordinary talent,singing well within themselves.So touching ! Thank you
Blessed Bryn. This is the lullaby of a mother, inviting her babe to snuggle to her breast for comfort in a fearful world. This robust bass-baritone opens his heart and invites us, so too, to feel the love woven into this timeless music. He's more than a great singer, he's a generous and fearless human being. Diolch yn fawr, Bryn.
Saw "Empire of the Sun" in Riverside, California, in August. Temperature was about 105F, palm trees and smog! Film opens with view of the old Shanghai waterfront. And then---Suo Gan started, a lullaby I knew well from Wales some 40 years previously. I was totally disoriented.
I am learning this song for a recital. I love this tune :D Everything encompassed in a lullaby. Most lullabies are quite dark and harrowing but this is pure and lulling.
I've been a professional singer for over 35 years and somehow, this song never has crossed my path. Sadly, it now has, at the passing of a very dear friend for whom I sang it (with difficulty, but hopefully poignantly) at her memorial Mass almost two weeks ago. I miss you, Vickie but I know, as the song says, you are sleeping in quiet on mother's gentle breast...
This song adds so much to a movie that was already amazing. Its too bad that society is rejecting older movies now. One will never find a movie as good as Empire of the Sun or Citizen Kane made today. It pains me every time I hear my friends say "a movie was good," I see it and I realize that they are judging by how much action the movie had in it, not by how artistic it was. As a filmmaker and twelve year old, I rejoice whenever a good movie or tv show like "sherlock" is made.
i am from wales and i love this song when i first heard this song when i was a baby because my mum and father and my 5 brothers sang this to me to get to sleep XXX i love this song :)
Just FYI Sleep child on my bosom Cozy and warm is this; Mother's arms are tight around you, Mother's love is under my breast; Nothing may affect your napping, No man will cross you; Sleep quietly, dear child, Sleep sweetly on your mother's breast. Sleep quietly, tonight, sleep; Sleep sweetly, the pretty of his picture; Why are you now smiling, Smiling softly in your sleep? Are angels above smiling, On you smiling joyfully, You smiling back in sleeping, Sleeping quietly on my breast? Do not fear, nothing but a leaf Knocks, knocks on the door; Do not fear, a small lonely wave Murmurs, murmurs on the seashore; Sleep child, there's nothing here Nothing to give you a fright; Smile quietly in my bosom, On the angels white yonder
You have a right to your opinion, but this is not overdone, he signs it simply and beautifully with the right amount of emphasis. Yes it is a song that is about a mother singing to her baby, however, in a larger sense it is a song about feeling safe and secure in the warmth of love that is provided for you by your loved ones - it states that there are times when you can feel safe and not worry about anything. As such it is appropriate for a man to sing, especially a man as talented as Bryn.
Sometimes I have the impression that Brad Little(famous Broadway singer)is a smaller version of Bryn.Of course their voices are different. But the similarity is very funny. Look for Brad Little here on youtube and you´ll see what I mean.Bryn is in very good voice here, beautiful singing.
welsh and cornish are a relic of the true british culture inhabiting this island b4 romans.......but fear not, most english ppl have brythonic ancestry....just lost the language from various invasions ^^
The reason the song rhymes in English is that, the translation is not the exact, word-for-word translation but, rather the English version of the lyrics.
I've tried to learn this song. The challenges are, besides not speaking Welsh, that the vowel shift is unlike any I've seen, Welsh has consonants I didn't grow up using often, and that there seem to been many renditions, skipping many lines, adding some of the skipped lines at the end, etc.
Where can one find this music? I have looked all over the internet for this and I can only seem to find chorus versions. If anyone knows where I may find it that would be great, thanks!
What visions make your face bright? Are the angels above smiling, At you in your peaceful rest? Are you beaming back while in Peaceful slumber on mothers breast? Do not fear the sound, its a breeze Brushing leaves against the door. Do not dread the murmuring seas, Lonely waves washing the shore. Sleep child mine, theres nothing here, While in slumber at my breast, Angels smiling, have no fear, Holy angels guard your rest.
sorry that's always personal opinion but how can bryn be the only person who sings this song...the others perform it...stiff, metrically correct...he doesn't because it's a song for a baby thus sung to a baby...if i'd have the choice to have it sung to myself to fall asleep i'd of course choose this version or the other terfel version...that's so beautiful
@DesertDiver10 songs should STAY in their original language, when you try to dub music it takes the original feel out of the music. learn the lyrics of this song, or pick another, cause if it was dubbed in another language it would not be the same song and would probably not sound good
It's probably just me, but i really don't like pianos accompanying singers. It makes it feel like choir practice. A cello, violin, harp, anything other than a piano when its a solo singer sounds so much better. Or like in Empire of the sun, an organ.
When I was in primary school in Cork City where I was born in 1938, we were taught to sing this great song from Wales ('All Through The Night') - in English. It made such a deep impression on me that I began to cry. Everybody stopped singing. I felt utterly lost. Our teacher, a master of gentleness, told the other boys that the class was over and allowed them to go home. Then Brother Oliver - a Christian Brother of the very best kind - went over the song with me again, line by line. Then he began to sing on his own while encouraging me to join in. Deeply moved both by the song and by the unexpected kindness, I stopped crying and began to sing too, my voice trembling at first and then gradually growing steady and more confident. It was my first introduction to Wales, my adopted homeland, where I have lived since 1960.
am I lucky then I am actually the only one in Texas with the name Oliver
beautiful mate x
What a lovely story. Thank you for sharing it.
This isn't "all through the night", completely different song xx
All through the night is Ar hyd y nos not suo gan
I'm in the US, but I sang this to my son when he was a baby. Cymru am Byth! Beautiful rendition by Bryn Terfel.
Fantastic. I love all Welsh music. It is soothing. I'm also proud to have Welsh blood in my veins. Wales will always be my spiritual home. Cymru am Byth!
Bryn Terfel, You are the best, love You from Latvia, love from all hearth! God bless You!
Despite being raised in England, my blood, and heart are as Welsh as they can be. Cymru am Byth! This song always calms my soul. It's hilarious. not even knowing it's significance, and having heard it once, mom would sing the melody to me as an infant. Not realising she was singing an antiquity :) God bless Wales. A pure, Honest land with a pure name and a pure soul. I know that God loves all his children. But we Welshmen give him a lot of reason to be proud!!
3mins 18secs of pure heaven. The genius and magic of gorgeous Bryn - Happy St David's Day to all you wonderful Welsh folk out there!
The complete master of his voice. I love to hear the welsh folk songs. What a joy
I heard this song for the first time as a teenager and without knowing its significance to my family, loved it. It still calms me to my soul and is a part of my cherished heritage. It makes me proud to say I'm part Welsh.
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How very beautiful, less is more. I wish that Bryn Terfel cherished that.
There are few things more magical than a great instrument with potential for great power yet used with artistry and sensitivity. I can bathe in the lushness of this man's sound but then I lose myself in his interpretations which are invariably superb.
The song is a Welsh lullaby and as Bryn is Welsh and his first language is Welsh, you cannot get much closer to the original spirit of the song. I am sure also that his mother sang this to him as a child as my mother did to me.
Superb ! Love this Melody and sung beautifully .There is something extra special about a gentle melody,sung by an extraordinary talent,singing well within themselves.So touching ! Thank you
I first learned of this lullaby from the movie "Empire of the Sun"...this song always brings a tear to my eye....and makes me proud to be Welsh!
Blessed Bryn. This is the lullaby of a mother, inviting her babe to snuggle to her breast for comfort in a fearful world. This robust bass-baritone opens his heart and invites us, so too, to feel the love woven into this timeless music. He's more than a great singer, he's a generous and fearless human being. Diolch yn fawr, Bryn.
He's voice is so effortless, so easy to listen to-reminds me of my husbands. Absolutly beautiful, I need to learn this to sing to my daughter!
Lovely, My dad would have loved singing this one he loved this type of music
Intimate lullaby, handsomely turned out by Bryn. Wonderful to hear Welsh words so feelingly interpreted!
Saw "Empire of the Sun" in Riverside, California, in August. Temperature was about 105F, palm trees and smog! Film opens with view of the old Shanghai waterfront. And then---Suo Gan started, a lullaby I knew well from Wales some 40 years previously. I was totally disoriented.
Love this song so beautifully sung.❤
I am learning this song for a recital. I love this tune :D Everything encompassed in a lullaby. Most lullabies are quite dark and harrowing but this is pure and lulling.
Gotta love Bryn! He's gonna be in recital here in NYC next month and I WILL be there!!
just when i thought i couldnt hear a new really good rendition of this song i hear this wow tears flowing free here ppl xx
I certainly didnt learn this tune in my childhood in the '50s. But it is so familiar. I love it - wonderful lullaby.
what an amazing voice , great music just love it.
absolutely wonderful - heart warming and soul stirring
Beautiful song, beautiful rendition!
es ist einfach wunderschön
Powerfull yet gracefull.
들을수록 편안하고 정말 아름다운 노래에요💕💕💕
I've been a professional singer for over 35 years and somehow, this song never has crossed my path. Sadly, it now has, at the passing of a very dear friend for whom I sang it (with difficulty, but hopefully poignantly) at her memorial Mass almost two weeks ago.
I miss you, Vickie but I know, as the song says, you are sleeping in quiet on mother's gentle breast...
B'aw, I got teary eyes. That man has a golden voice.
Amazing talent with extraordinary range...
wow didnt think this song could put a bigger smile on my face but well done xxx
Loved this song ever since hearing it in the movie empire of the sun.
This song adds so much to a movie that was already amazing. Its too bad that society is rejecting older movies now. One will never find a movie as good as Empire of the Sun or Citizen Kane made today. It pains me every time I hear my friends say "a movie was good," I see it and I realize that they are judging by how much action the movie had in it, not by how artistic it was. As a filmmaker and twelve year old, I rejoice whenever a good movie or tv show like "sherlock" is made.
i am from wales and i love this song when i first heard this song when i was a baby because my mum and father and my 5 brothers sang this to me to get to sleep XXX i love this song :)
What an incredible song from one of my favorite movies..Empire of the sun. You sang it beautifully.
Thank you for sharing...
Beautiful, thank you for this memory
This is beautiful
Yes he is singing in Cymraeg (Welsh) his first and native language. English is his second language.
What a nice Song 🎵 👌 ❤
Sheer perfection.
Realmente magnifico. Yo quisera cantar asi
Just FYI
Sleep child on my bosom
Cozy and warm is this;
Mother's arms are tight around you,
Mother's love is under my breast;
Nothing may affect your napping,
No man will cross you;
Sleep quietly, dear child,
Sleep sweetly on your mother's breast.
Sleep quietly, tonight, sleep;
Sleep sweetly, the pretty of his picture;
Why are you now smiling,
Smiling softly in your sleep?
Are angels above smiling,
On you smiling joyfully,
You smiling back in sleeping,
Sleeping quietly on my breast?
Do not fear, nothing but a leaf
Knocks, knocks on the door;
Do not fear, a small lonely wave
Murmurs, murmurs on the seashore;
Sleep child, there's nothing here
Nothing to give you a fright;
Smile quietly in my bosom,
On the angels white yonder
You have a right to your opinion, but this is not overdone, he signs it simply and beautifully with the right amount of emphasis. Yes it is a song that is about a mother singing to her baby, however, in a larger sense it is a song about feeling safe and secure in the warmth of love that is provided for you by your loved ones - it states that there are times when you can feel safe and not worry about anything. As such it is appropriate for a man to sing, especially a man as talented as Bryn.
Sometimes I have the impression that Brad Little(famous Broadway singer)is a smaller version of Bryn.Of course their voices are different. But the similarity is very funny. Look for Brad Little here on youtube and you´ll see what I mean.Bryn is in very good voice here, beautiful singing.
welsh and cornish are a relic of the true british culture inhabiting this island b4 romans.......but fear not, most english ppl have brythonic ancestry....just lost the language from various invasions ^^
Perfect!
Very very nice.
The reason the song rhymes in English is that, the translation is not the exact, word-for-word translation but, rather the English version of the lyrics.
I've tried to learn this song. The challenges are, besides not speaking Welsh, that the vowel shift is unlike any I've seen, Welsh has consonants I didn't grow up using often, and that there seem to been many renditions, skipping many lines, adding some of the skipped lines at the end, etc.
maravilhoso !!!
Fun fact: Bryan Terfel is actually my second cousin.
This song makes me proud of being welsh! dwi'n caru Cymru. Cymru yn awesome!!!
Do we take it, then, that there is no Welsh word for awesome?
Awesome=gwych. But younger people just say awesome
Y Gymraeg yw'r mamiaith Bryn Terfel (Welsh is Bryn Terfel's mother language.)
Where can one find this music? I have looked all over the internet for this and I can only seem to find chorus versions. If anyone knows where I may find it that would be great, thanks!
nice one Bryn!
coraclewoman
... Gwena'n dawel yn fy mynwes
Ar yr engyl gwynion draw.
Beautiful!
Primera vez que la escucho por un tenor , igual de cautivadora
The lyrics of this particular song have at least 3 variations, and I'm never sure which was the original.
hint - he ad libbed!!
Does anyone know where I can get sheet music for this in the same key as Bryn is singing i.e. 'D'
glory for Cymru!
WOW
sorry can i ask if its Welsh why does it also rhyme when translated into English
What visions make your face bright?
Are the angels above smiling,
At you in your peaceful rest?
Are you beaming back while in
Peaceful slumber on mothers breast?
Do not fear the sound, its a breeze
Brushing leaves against the door.
Do not dread the murmuring seas,
Lonely waves washing the shore.
Sleep child mine, theres nothing here,
While in slumber at my breast,
Angels smiling, have no fear,
Holy angels guard your rest.
travel to wales m8, that's the way to do it
Bendigedig o gan ac o lais.
because Angels wrote it.
No it was written by a Welsh person who understood a mother’s love for her child
sorry that's always personal opinion but how can bryn be the only person who sings this song...the others perform it...stiff, metrically correct...he doesn't because it's a song for a baby thus sung to a baby...if i'd have the choice to have it sung to myself to fall asleep i'd of course choose this version or the other terfel version...that's so beautiful
I research Japan lallabye Suo Gan about mother and child and life and death.
@DesertDiver10
songs should STAY in their original language, when you try to dub music it takes the original feel out of the music.
learn the lyrics of this song, or pick another, cause if it was dubbed in another language it would not be the same song and would probably not sound good
He's a bass like me..
1 person was a tenor.
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@ronaldinhollew "sang" s/be "sung"; and "existance" s/be "existence"........ Otherwise, I agree, even about "seeing" it.
I tought it was chinese >.
lol you silly person
It's probably just me, but i really don't like pianos accompanying singers. It makes it feel like choir practice. A cello, violin, harp, anything other than a piano when its a solo singer sounds so much better. Or like in Empire of the sun, an organ.
tragedy