Y Ffidl Gymreig

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Y ffidl Gymreig a’r traddodiad toredig. Cyweliad â ddau ffidlwr o Gymru, Stephen Rees a Huw Roberts.

In Ireland and Scotland, there has been a continuous fiddle playing tradition since the 18th century and as a result the music has changed its form, even though its roots are in the 18th century. With Welsh music, because of the need to go back to the manuscripts, it is maybe possible to get closer to how people would actually have played at that time.

Felly, i gadw rhywbeth yn bur, i gyd sy angen yw sgwennu fe i lawr, stopo wneud e am sawl canrif, ac wedyn ei “ail-ddarganfod” jyst cyn i chi golli’r gallu i ddeall y llawysgrifau.

Amseru yw popeth, sbo.

4 thoughts on “Y Ffidl Gymreig”

  1. Mae cyfweliad â Robin Huw Bowen yn ddiddorol hefyd.

    Wales never really seemed to feature much in the world of Celtic music when I first touched on it. Many people in fact would have said that Wales never had any such folk music, or if it had existed, it had all been lost. The truth is, that the research work had not been done.

    The Welsh on the whole were just too busy being “anally retrocontemplative,” wallowing in the “Land of Song” clichË, doing hymns, negro spirituals, and opera choruses, and in so doing, believing that Welsh tradition was alive and well.