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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) |
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... |
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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 |
JOHN DUFFY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Duffy: Heritage Symphonic Dances / Heritage Suite For Orchestra (with Bernstein: Dance Episodes from 'On the Town') Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Williams [ ASV / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] John Duffy has composed more than 300 works for symphony Orchestra, theater, television and film. |
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JOHN WILLIAMS
John Williams in Tokyo [Live complete] (Blu-ray) Saito Kinen Orchestra John Williams, Stéphane Denève [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 19/Jul/2024 ] 30 years after his last visit to Japan, John Williams has returned for a special concert - making his debut with the world-famous Saito Kinen Orchestra in renditions of his beloved film scores and reuniting with his longtime friend, world-renowned... |
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore (complete operetta) Elizabeth Watts, Toby Spence, John Mark Ainsley, Andrew Foster-Williams / Scottish Opera, Richard Egarr [ Linn / 2 CD - released 2/May/2016 ] "The singers are first class and well suited to their roles - Toby Spence is well-suited the tenor role of Ralph, John Mark Ainsley as Sir Joseph gives the character an affected aloofness with sufficient dryness to provide believable comedy" MusicWeb |
SAMUEL WESLEY / JOHN STAINER / STANLEY VANN / ORLANDO GIBBONS / etc
The English Anthem (Vol 8) (Includes 'A crown of glory' & 'Praise the Lord, my soul') St Paul's Cathedral Choir / Huw Williams (organ) / John Scott (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 11/Feb/2005 ] 'The performances are excellent, as are William McVicker's booklet-notes, and the great echo's presence is felt as friend, not foe' (Gramophone) |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Into The Woods Vanessa Williams & John McMartin / 2002 Broadway Cast [ Nonesuch / CD - released 26/Aug/2002 ] Into the Woods is a 1986 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main... |
HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR
Hancock's Half Hour: The Lift / Twelve Angry Men Tony Hancock with Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques & Bill Kerr [ BBC Audio / CD - released 4/Feb/2010 ] Two television soundtracks from the BBC's memorable series Hancock's Half Hour by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson starring Tony Hancock, Sid James and John Le Mesurier. In 'The Lift', Hancock gets stuck in a lift at the BBC with eight other people.. |
JOHN KANDER / FRED EBB
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kander/Ebb: Kiss of the Spider Woman - The musical Vanessa Williams & Howard McGillin / New 1994 Broadway Cast Recording [ Mercury / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with the book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña. Directed by Harold Prince, the musical had runs in the West End (1992)... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
From Melba To Sutherland Various Artists incls Nellie Melba, Joan Sutherland, Essie Ackland, Alfred Hill, Walter Kirby, Eileen Boyd, Harold Williams, Peter Dawson, etc [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 4 CD - released 30/Sep/2016 ] From Melba to Sutherland: Australian Singers on Record is the first-ever comprehensive survey of the recordings of Australia's greatest singers - in a unique new four-CD set from Decca, complete with biographies, rare photographs in a 68-page booklet |
Various Artists incls Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Mario Lnza, Andy Williams, Julie London, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Mathis, Frank Ifield, etc
What a Wonderful World [ Sony / 2 CD - released 17/Nov/2007 ] What A Wonderful World is great collection of memories from the greats of yesteryear, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong and many more, 40 tracks over 2CD's! |
ANONYMOUS
The Revelation of St John the Divine Read by Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] The theme of Revelation is apocalypse: the end of the world and the coming of Christ in judgement. The date of the composition was probably some time in the nineties AD. One of the most controversal and quoted texts of the New Testament, The... |
Robbie Williams
What We Did Last Summer - Live at Knebworth [ EMI Music / 2 DVD - released 24/Nov/2003 ] M - Contains offensive language |
Williams/Farnon/Torch
Queen's Hall Light Orchestra Vol 2. [ Dutton / CD - released 24/Sep/2001 ] |
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
Carpenter: Adventures in A Perambulator / Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, John McLaughlin Williams, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 14/May/2001 ] You have to hand it to Naxos. Here--on one very-nicely-performed program (played with gusto, polish, and complete sympathy by those specialists in American repertoire, the Ukraine National Symphony!!) and recorded in clean, bright, engaging sound." |
