Gyda'n Gilydd (Corau Cymru Yn Canu Caneuon Poblogaidd / The Choir Of Wales In Popular Mode)

Inside the image.

A square album cover combines a photograph of a rural landscape with large lettering across the sky. Rolling fields fill the lower half and middle distance, divided into bright green and yellow strips by hedges and narrow lines of trees. A small pale stone house stands in the lower right, its steep dark roof and chimney set against the fields. Bare or sparsely leafed trees and shrubs gather around it. Low hills recede across the horizon, with a band of mist or low cloud lying in the valleys.

The sky occupies much of the upper half. It shifts from deep blue at the top to pale, glowing cloud near the horizon, where sunlight breaks through and catches the fields. The scene is strongly coloured, with vivid greens and golds below and cool blue, grey and cream tones above. The house and nearby trees provide a dark, detailed counterweight to the open, luminous countryside. There is no visible border.

The title, “Gyda’n gilydd”, stretches across the upper sky in very large, fine white cursive lettering. Its long, looping strokes extend nearly from edge to edge, overlapping the clouds and visually dominating the cover. Beneath it, small uppercase lettering at the left reads “CORAÚ CYMRU YN CANU / CANEUON POBLOGAIDD”; a similarly small two-line inscription to the right reads “THE CHOIRS OF WALES / IN POPULAR MODE”. Both are pale blue-white sans-serif capitals, placed over the darker and lighter bands of sky respectively. The image has a photographic appearance, with a broad view from the house and fields in the foreground towards the distant hills.