VARIOUS COMPOSERS
My Beloved's Voice Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, Mark Williams [ Signum Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] Mark Williams leads the Choir of the Jesus College Cambridge through an evocative selection of choral works inspired in varying ways by the Song of Solomon. |
WILLIAM BYRD / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Byrd / Britten The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, Mark Williams (director) [ Signum / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "Byrd's scraping harmonies often sound no older than Britten's.The singing of Jesus Cambridge isn't always sharply defined but it is warm and breathy, topped by excellent boy choristers and best in stately slow music such as Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus." |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
War & Peace: Music for Remembrance The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, Mark Williams (director) [ Signum / CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] As the centenary of the Great War approaches, the choir of Jesus College Cambridge present a new programme of works titled War & Peace, a beautiful and moving collection of choral works that are united in various ways by the experiences and impact of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Out of Darkness: Music from Lent to Trinity The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, Mark Williams [ Signum Classics / CD - released 9/Feb/2015 ] "The programme has been discerningly chosen and the standard of performance is set down at once with an excellent account of Byrd's Cunctis diebus. Here the College Choir achieves a good internal balance, sustains the polyphonic lines intelligently a |
HERBERT SUMSION / JOHN RUTTER / WILLIAM WALTON / HUBERT PARRY / etc
The English Anthem (Vol 7) (Incls 'they that go down to the sea in ships' & 'Hymn to St Peter') Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, London / John Scott (conductor) with Huw Williams (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Aug/2006 ] 'All of the music is of the very highest quality. This disc will offer lasting pleasure and satisfaction to cathedral music enthusiasts and newcomers alike' (BBC Music Magazine) |
MATYAS SEIBER
Choral Music A Cappella Choir of the 21st Century, Howard Williams [ Somm / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] This new SOMM release, Mátyás Seiber's Music a cappella is a delightful collection of choral music written by a composer of great talent who died tragically early and at the height of his powers. The disc is certain to become a favourite among those... |
TRADITIONAL / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Adeste Fideles: Christmas Carols from her Majesty's Chapel Royal Choir of the Chapel Royal, Huw Williams [ Signum Classics / CD - released 16/Dec/2016 ] "The performances are excellent and the recording captures the performances expertly." MusicWeb |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Faust (complete original opera production from 1859) Véronique Gens, Andrew Foster-Williams; Benjamin Bernheim; Jean-Sébastien Bou /Flemish Radio Choir, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset [ Bru Zane / 3 CD/Book - released 23/Aug/2019 ] "It also happens to be a terrific recording on its own terms...Rousset underpins it all with conducting that is fleet and dramatically engaged." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short list - Opera |
SEMYON BARMOTIN
Barmotin: Piano Music - 20 Preludes / theme and Variations Christopher Williams (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 10/Jun/2020 ] Semyon Alexeyevich Barmotin (1877-1939) was a student of Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov, and his fate under the Soviet regime in the 1930s remains a mystery, but what survives of his music is impressive in both scale and content. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Rarities Christopher Williams (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] Recent scholarship has brought numerous compositions by the excessively self-critical Mendelssohn into print and has ensured more accurate compositional dates for them. Many of these rare and little-known examples are encountered on this album. The... |
HOWARD SKEMPTON
Howard Skempton: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christopher Yates (viola) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Martyn Brabbins [ NMC / CD - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Perfectly crafted, deceptively simplistic and distinctively individual, Howard Skempton's compositions have a soundworld all of their own. This new full-length album on NMC perfectly displays his experimental, yet sonorous and tonal... |
JOHN WILLIAMS
A Tribute to John Williams [incls 'Jaws', 'Indiana Jones' & 'The Adventures of Tintin'] Composed and conducted by John Williams [ Sony Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] A new collection honoring the 80th birthday of one of America's most distinctive and beloved musical voices with a selection of the composer's own personal favorites from film and television music to concert works to festive occasion pieces. |
Cootie Williams
Cootie / Un Concert Á Minuit Avec Cootie Williams [ Masterjazz Records / CD - released 19/Oct/2012 ] |
SCHUBERT
Impromptus & Ländler D366 Cordelia Williams (piano) [ Somm / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] "Her playing has a warmth and finely judged flexibility that are immediately attractive...it's the spontaneity of the performances, as well as the beauty of the piano tone that linger in the mind." (BBC Music) |
Dar Williams
In the Time of the Gods [ Floating World / CD - released 4/May/2012 ] |
Don Williams
Traces / New Moves [ Beat Goes On Records / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] |
Don Williams
The Very Best Of Don Williams [ MCA Records / CD - released 16/Apr/2000 ] |
Don Williams
Visions / Expressions / Portrait [ Beat Goes On / 2 CD - released 17/Jan/2014 ] |
Don Williams
Volume One / Volume Two / Volume III [ BGO Records / 2 CD - released 7/Mar/2014 ] From 1973 and '74 come three Don Williams albums, originally on JMI and ABC Records All made the US Top 20 Country Albums chart, with 'I Wouldn't Want To Live If You Didn't Love Me' a US Country No.1 single and 'The Ties That Bind' and 'We Should Be... |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem (with Mozart-Ave verum corpus, K618, etc) Elin Manahan Thomas, Roderick Williams, Ruth Massey, Mark Dobell / The Sixteen / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Harry Christophers [ Coro Live / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] The result of a brand new collaboration between two of the finest modern day exponents of classical music, this exquisite disc brings fresh life to Fauré's peerless Requiem and injects imaginative invention and poetic phrasing into two of Mozart's... |