SCHUBERT
Der Wanderer: Schubert Lieder Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano) [ Delphian / CD - released 19/Aug/2016 ] "This is a most intelligently planned programme and the execution by Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside is superb." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2016) |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: I Said to Love / Let Us Garlands Bring / Before and After Summer Roderick Williams (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 12 / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] "A lovely rich, velvety tone, gorgeous in the lower register, great sensitivity to both text and music, enunciation excellent, and good pacing. Strongly recommended ... " (MusicWeb July 2005) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, Op. 74 / Tit for Tat / Folk Songs Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 22 / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "Williams finds an ideal emotional stance - involved, totally word-conscious but never melodramatic...as a recorded recital, Williams - and Burnside, who is similarly colourful, have created an outstanding achievement." (Gramophone Award Nomination... |
GEORGE BUTTERWORTH
Butterworth: Songs from A Shropshire Lad / Folk Songs from Sussex (English Song, Vol. 20) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Iain Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Williams's engagingly fresh delivery, secure technique, eloquent turn of phrase and variety of tone are a joy throughout, as is his crystal-clear diction. Burnside, too, is at his customarily unmannered, attentive best, the crispness and poise of... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel / The House of Life / etc Roderick Williams (Baritone) / Iain Burnside (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2006 ] The early songs of Vaughan Williams reflect the contemporary interest in a form to which Parry and Stanford had given much encouragement. |
LISZT / MARTUCCI /PONCHIELLI / RESPIGHI
Rosa Feola: Musica e Poesia Rosa Feola (soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano) [ Opus Arte / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Ailish Tynan has made a speciality of French song. The mélodies of Gabriel Fauré lie at the heart of his romantic but elusive style, and this selection ranges from the composer's youthful embrace of Italian style to late and quietly innovative... |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Voices Vol 1: Blood Red Carnations-Songs by Arnold Schoenberg Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Black Box / CD - released 15/Oct/2003 ] Black Box launches its Voices series with a superb collection of Schoenberg's songs, performed by Sarah Connolly, Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside |
KORNGOLD
Songs Sarah Connolly (mezzo) William Dazeley (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - July 2009 |
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Songs Before Sleep Sophie Daneman (soprano) / Roderick Williams (baritone) / Iain Burnside (piano) [ NMC / CD - released 11/Nov/2010 ] "What a treat this is! Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, 74 years young, continues to delight audiences the world over." Gramophone Award finalist 2011 - solo vocal |
IVOR GURNEY
EnIvor Gurney Songs Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) Ian Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 19 / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Comedy, desolation and lovelorn longing all touch the music of this 'lover and maker of beauty', whose songs find ideal interpreters in Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside... |
Tynan/Bickley/Kennedy/Burnside
Weir: On Buying A Horse [ Signum / CD - released 6/Nov/2006 ] |