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Sain is proud to release baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen’s first album. “Releasing with Sain is a privilege,” says Steffan, “as was recording at their studios, where so many of my musical heroes have recorded in the past. It has been a challenge but a very enjoyable one.” Having completed his musical studies at the Royal Northern College of Music and embarked on a career as a soloist, Steffan already has many accolades to his name, including two of the main prizes awarded at the National Eisteddfod of Wales – the Osborne Roberts Memorial Prize and the Towyn Roberts Scholarship – as well as the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary. He has also performed in operas with Welsh National Opera, alongside Bryn Terfel, and has performed a title role in ‘Brundibar’.

The album was produced by Osian Huw Williams, who also contributed instrumentally to the album, together with Annette Bryn Parri on piano, Gruffydd Wyn on vocals, Dylan Cernyw on harp and vocal party Hogia Llanbobman. The album contains a vast rage of musical genres and the songs take us on a journey from the joyous to the plaintive through to the tender and powerful, through works by Schubert and Rossini to Welsh favourites by composers such as Gareth Glyn, Robat Arwyn and R S Hughes. The album’s track title is a Welsh version, by Caryl Bryn, of the song ‘Homeward Bound’. Through his assured and confident performance, his lyrical and emotive singing and the richness and maturity of his voice, this album confirms Steffan as one of Wales’ most impressive and talented young singers.

Steffan dedicates this album in memory of his late mother, Susan Jane Owen.

Track listing

01. Adra'n ôl

02. I Believe

03. Litanei

04. Largo Al Factotum

05. I Love you Because

06. Yr Orrnest

07. Nacht Und Traume

08. I'll Walk Beside You

09. Dy garu o Bell

10. Homeward Bound

11. Llanrwst

12. Somewhere (West Side Story) gyda Gruffydd Wyn

13. Y Dymestl.

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