Lisa Milne, Roderick Williams with Iain Burnside (piano)
Moonstruck: Songs of FG Scott [ Signum / CD - released 16/May/2007 ] "Here's an important discovery ailing from the Scottish Borders...a compelling collection that reveals FG Scott as poetic yet clear-eyed and, above all, songful." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine August 2007 |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Music, Vol. 5 Llŷr Williams (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] The great A minor of D845 was the first of his piano sonatas that Schubert made any effort to have published. Written in the spring of 1825, there is an air of defiance about the writing, perhaps the composer's response to his terminal diagnosis.... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Music, Vol. 6 Llŷr Williams (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] This album contains the earliest three of Schubert's piano sonatas Llŷr Williams included in his Cardiff series (there are eight earlier works in the genre-in varying states of completion). All three remained unpublished until after the composer's... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Excerpts from Années de pèlerinage - Italie & other works Llyr Williams (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 30/Jul/2012 ] 'Pèlerinage highlights from Wales's pre-eminent pianist' (Gramophone) |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Pictures from an exhibition / Debussy: Estampes / Liszt: Ave Maria Llyr Williams (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] 'Williams allows the music's brand of sophisticated spontaneity to speak memorably for itself' (BBC Music Magazine) |
FRANZ LISZT / RICHARD WAGNER
Liszt/Wagner: Wagner without Words Llyr Williams (piano) [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2014 ] "It's a totally convincing collection, and technically superb; Williams is equal to the toughest challenges that Liszt presents, but always puts Wagner first...everything has a sense of dramatic purpose." The Guardian |
Lucinda Williams
Ramblin' [ Retro World / CD - released 6/Apr/2010 ] |
Lucinda Williams
Runnin' Down A Dream: A Tribute To Tom Petty [ Thirty Tigers / CD - released 16/Apr/2021 ] Lucinda Williams is a three-time Grammy award-winner, who's latest studio album, Good Souls Better Angels, was featured on Best of 2020 lists from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Mojo, No Depression & Pop Matters. Now Williams returns with six-volume... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Alceste (complete opera) Lucy Crowe / Benjamin Hulett / Andrew Foster Williams / Early Opera Company / Christian Curnyn [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] "Alcestis's journey to the Underworld is enchanting, with Curnyn's fleet strings, intimately proportioned chorus, and polished soloists" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 Opera WINNER |
GEORGE FREDERICK McKAY
Violin Concerto / Sinfonietta No. 4 / Song Over the Great Plains Ludmilla Kovaleva, piano / Brian Reagin, violin / Ukraine National Radio Symphony Orchestra / John McLaughlin Williams, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2005 ] "Naxos's third McKay disc ... a worthy revival of music that could otherwise have been lost to posterity" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
WILLIAM ALWYN
Chamber Music and Songs Madeleine Mitchell / Roger Chase / Andrew Ball / Jeremy Huw-Williams [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] "The performances on this CD are - as usual from Naxos - of a very high standard and the various performers sound as if they have been playing this music all of their lives" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
Marc Williams
The Forgotten Singing Cowboy [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Apr/2004 ] Unlike so many of the country performers of the day, Williams shows no evidence of having been influenced by Jimmie Rodgers.He appears to be influenced by the more traditional western singers although his material... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica / Four Last Songs / Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier (pianos), Roderick Williams (baritone) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] "This would be my present first choice ... The Bergen players are especially effective, the huge orchestration never cluttered or opaque in SACD spaciousness ..." BBC Music magazine - Christmas 2017 |
Marlon Williams
Make Way For Love (5th Anniversary Edition Blue Vinyl LP) [ Dead Oceans / LP - released 5/Jul/2024 ] "Singer-songwriter" The single most used hyphenate in music? Probably, and New Zealand's Marlon Williams nailed the first part of that descriptor at an early age. He's quite simply got one of the most extraordinary, effortlessly distinctive voices of... |
Marlon Williams
Make Way For Love (LP) [ Caroline / LP - released 29/Jan/2021 ] Known for his effortlessly distinctive voice, Make Way For Love, Marlon Williams' second album, marks his exponential growth as a songwriter. Throughout 11 original songs, he explores new musical terrain and reveals himself in an unprecedented way in... |
Marlon Williams
My Boy (Lemon Yellow Vinyl LP) [ Virgin Music Australia / LP - released 9/Sep/2022 ] My Boy, the third solo record from New Zealand singer/songwriter Marlon Williams, announces an artist emerging anew. Gone is the solemn, country-indebted crooner with the velvet voice - in his place comes a playful, shapeshifting... |
Martin/Williams/Tracey
Martin:offbeat [ Linn / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] |
ARNOLD BAX
Orchestral Works, Volume 8 (Incls 'Enchanted Summer' & 'Walsinghame') Martyn Hill (tenor) Anne Williams-Kingm, Lynore McWhirter (sopranos) / Brighton Festival Chorus / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] 'This issue represents a considerable achievement for all involved. The spacious recording copes beautifully with everything Bax can muster.' Hi-Fi News |
Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou's Mass [ Smithsonian Folkways / CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] This re-mastered re-issue album includes bonus material from her 1969 masterpiece 'Music For Peace' (the third of her four masses), and two hymns written in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Mary Lou Williams
TBC [ Acrobat / CD - released 28/Nov/2008 ] |