GERSHWIN / RODRIGO / VIVALDI / RAVEL / RACHMANINOV / GIULIANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rodrigo/Gershwin/Ravel/Rachmaninov: Concertos Philippe Entremont (piano), John Williams (guitar) / English Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra [ Sony Classical Concertos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2009 ] .This special edition collects three highly regarded recordings on the Sony label. All three CDs features top selling soloists and world famous orchestras.. |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits & 5 Variants of 'Dives & Lazarus' [ Chandos / CD ] First heard at the 1936 Norwich Festival, Vaughan Williams's Five Tudor Portraits find the composer at his most dazzlingly inventive, the resourceful and witty writing fitting Skelton's words like a glove. |
Robbie Williams
The Christmas Present [ Epic / 2 CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] Robbie Williams releases his first ever Christmas album, 'The Christmas Present'. Featuring two discs: 'Christmas Past' and 'Christmas Future', both including a brilliant mixture of original songs and special festive covers with star guest... |
Robbie Williams
Escapology [ EMI Music / CD - released 18/Nov/2002 ] Fourteen tracks, many recorded naked! Robbie considers it his best |
Robbie Williams
Greatest Hits [ EMI Music / CD - released 18/Oct/2004 ] Robbie's first new material in over two years, alongside a selection of smash hit singles that have marked one of the most distinguished careers in musical history. |
Robbie Williams
The Heavy Entertaiment Show [ Sony CD / CD ] 2016 album from the British superstar. The Heavy Entertainment Show is the 11th studio album from Robbie Williams, a man who has sold over 70 million albums in his solo career and won more BRIT Awards than any other artist in history. Robbie has... |
Robbie Williams
In and Out of Consciousness - The Greatest Hits 1990-2010 [ EMI Music / 2 CD - released 11/Oct/2010 ] Spread over two CDs, 'In and Out of Consciousness' is Robbie's 39-track album of greatest hits from the last 20 years. |
Robbie Williams
Intensive Care (Special Edition) [ EMI Music / 2 CD/DVD - released 18/Apr/2011 ] Re-issued in special limited edition package, with a wealth of previously unreleased content - on CD plus DVD! |
Robbie Williams
Life Thru A Lens [ Chrysalis / CD - released 20/Sep/1997 ] |
Robbie Williams
Life Thru a Lens (Gatefold LP) [ Universal Music / LP - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Originally released in October 1997, 'Life Thru A Lens' was Robbie's debut solo album. It entered the chart at No. 11 but had to wait almost six months before it reached No. 1, eventually spending 147 weeks on the Top 100 and being certified 8 x... |
Robbie Williams
Live Summer 2003 [ EMI Music / CD - released 29/Sep/2003 ] All his hits, recorded at Knebworth Park in August 2003, in front of a huge audience! |
Robbie Williams
XXV (Deluxe Double CD) [ Columbia / 2 CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Celebrating 25 years of Robbie as a solo artist and featuring countless Number 1 smash hit singles and fan favourites, the tracks on XXV have been newly orchestrated by Jules Buckley, Guy Chambers and Steve Sidwell, and re-recorded with the acclaimed... |
Robbie Williams
XXV (LP) [ Columbia / 2 LP - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Celebrating 25 years of Robbie as a solo artist and featuring countless Number 1 smash hit singles and fan favourites, the tracks on XXV have been newly orchestrated by Jules Buckley, Guy Chambers and Steve Sidwell, and re-recorded with the acclaimed... |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Sea Drift / Cynara (with Holst - The Hymn of Jesus) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Hallé Choir & Hallé Youth Choir, Halle Orchestra, Mark Elder [ Halle / CD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Schwanengesang (with Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98) Roderick Williams (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "Williams sings German as a non-native speaker in the best sense, harnessing the words with a sense of discovery of how much closer they bring him to the archetypes within the various verses" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2020 |
JOHN IRELAND
Songs (Incls 'Five Poems by Thomas Hardy') Roderick Williams (Baritone) / Iain Burnside (Piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 18 / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "Roderick Williams is such a good singer he can make the voice part sound vocal and natural in a way not many have succeeded in doing. …the pianist, Iain Burnside, plays with a sureness of touch to match the highly skilled naturalness of Williams's... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler arr. Schoenberg: Songs [Lieder] Roderick Williams (baritone) Susan Platts (mezzo-soprano) & Charles Reid (tenor) / Attacca Quartet & Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, JoAnn Fal [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] Arnold Schoenberg founded the Society for Private Musical Performances in 1918 to perform contemporary music from 'Mahler to the present'. Mahler had been an early supporter of Schoenberg's music, and Schoenberg repaid the favour by arranging... |
Sir Arthur SOMMERVELL
Somervell: A Shropshire Lad / Maud Roderick Williams (baritone), Susie Allan (piano) [ Somm / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Hailed as "the English Schumann" for his mastery of song setting, song cycles in particular, Somervell's music is marked by a distinctive blend of lyricism and harmony that makes itself indelibly felt in these two seminal works. |
THOMAS ARNE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Arne: The Six Organ Concertos Roger Bevan Williams (organ) / Cantilena, Adrian Shepherd [ Chandos Chaconne / 2 CD - released 22/Aug/1989 ] Recorded: 12-13 April 1987 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) (complete opera recorded in 2021) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Mauro Peter, Siobhan Stagg, Roderick Williams, Sabine Devieilhe, Mika Kares / Julia Jones (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 26/Nov/2021 ] "This spirited performance, with good video direction by Jonathan Haswell, will give a great deal of pleasure." Gramophone |