Max Boyce: Hymns & Arias — The Selected Poems, Songs and Stories

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Detholiad neilltuol - wedi'i argraffu am y tro cyntaf mewn ambell i enghraifft - o waith Max Boyce, ffigwr diwylliannol Cymreig o'r radd flaenaf. Cynhwysir ei ganeuon, ei gerddi a'i straeon sy'n cwmpasu gyrfa enwog yn byrlymu o hiwmor a thosturi Cymreig unigryw ynghyd â dawn feistrolgar i drin geiriau a ddiffiniodd wlad a chenedl y Cymry am dros hanner canrif.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Compiling - in some instances for the first time in print - the very best songs, poems and stories from across his celebrated career, Max Boyce: Hymns & Arias is the definitive selected work of a major cultural figure who, through his inimitable humour, uniquely Welsh pathos and masterful wordcraft, has defined a nation and its people for more than half a century.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Maxwell Boyce, MBE (born 27 September 1943) is a Welsh comedian, singer and entertainer. He rose to fame during the mid-1970s with an act that combined musical comedy with his passion for rugby union and his origins in the mining communities of south Wales.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Welsh singer, comedian and entertainer. Sold more than two million albums in a career spanning five decades. High production value publication, with many classic photos including ones from Max’s own personal archive, as well as both old and newly-commissioned illustrations. Max Boyce MBE is “uproariously and happily unique.” - The Listener When ‘Hymns and Arias’ rang out at Cardiff Arms Park some fifty years ago, those great Welsh anthems ‘Calon Lân’ and ‘Cwm Rhondda’ had found a companion and the valleys of south Wales had produced a new folk hero. Max Boyce’s work, with over five decades of creativity, captures the spirit and the story of the people of Wales. It also has a warmth and charm that has made his words and music resonate with a worldwide audience. From his early days touring the folk clubs and small concert halls of his native south Wales to sell-out shows at some of the world’s most iconic venues, including the Albert Hall, the London Palladium and the opera houses of Sydney and Durban, Max has become an original and treasured performer whose songs and stories have become part of folk culture. His albums, including the No. 1 album We All Had Doctors’ Papers and the iconic Live at Treorchy, have sold in their millions and earned him several gold discs. His greatest influence has always been the valleys of Wales, with their inherent warmth and humour, their sadness and passion, and he has the remarkable ability to heighten, to an art form, the ‘hwyl’ that attends his nation’s national game: rugby union.