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Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn – Schubert: Winter Journey (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:18 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Celebrated soloists Roderick Wiliams and Christopher Glynn perform a new English translation Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. Composed in 1827 whilst in the grip of the illness that would ultimately kill him, Schubert’s setting of Wilhelm Muller’s poetry takes on an added tragic interpretation as it follows the narrative of a spurned lover travelling through a cold and barren landscape.
Christopher Glynn writes on this new recording:
“We hope this Winter Journey can offer English-speaking listeners a way to experience the story’s sense alongside the music’s sound, with something of the same directness that Schubert surely intended when he sat down at the piano in 1827 and sang these songs for the first time to his friends.”
This disc is the first in a series of three English language programmes of Schubert’s song cycles. Future releases include The Shepherd on the Rock (Der Hirt auf dem Felsen) and The Fair Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin).
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Roderick Williams & Andrew West – Birdsong (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:19 minutes | 1019 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings
SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce Birdsong, a fascinating crossgender exploration of art songs associated with the female voice by baritone Roderick Williams, accompanied by pianist Andrew West. The recital features signature songs from the height of Romanticism by Brahms and Clara and Robert Schumann alongside a more recent quartet of sensuous songs by Sally Beamish. In his revealing foreword, Williams recalls having his choice of Brahms’s Sapphische Ode refused by competition organisers because it was “a woman’s song”. Returning recently to the work prompted him to question why some songs are considered gender specific. Birdsong is his response.
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Roderick Williams & Susie Allan – Somervell: Maud & A Shropshire Lad (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:24 minutes | 927 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOMM Recordings
SOMM Recordings announces an important new recording of two classic English song cycles by Sir Arthur Somervell – Maud and A Shropshire Lad – from the acclaimed partnership of baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Susie Allan.
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Roderick Williams – Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:45 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos Records
Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside complete their survey of Schubert’s song cycles with this recording of Winterreise. Composed in the late 1820s, towards the end of Schubert’s tragically short life, Winterreise (“Winter Journey”) is a setting of twenty-four poems by Wilhelm Müller and describes a traveller leaving the town which was the home of the object of his unrequited love, to embark on a long journey, through a chill, wintry landscape, which ends in near-suicidal despair.
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Roderick Williams, Roger Vignoles – Mirages: The Art of French Song (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:03 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Champs Hill Records
In their latest release for Champs Hill Records, distinguished baritone Roderick Williams and acclaimed pianist Roger Vignoles join forces once again to offer a stunning recording, this time inspired by their critically acclaimed Wigmore Hall recital of French Song. Williams and Vignoles guide the listener through much-loved and lesser-known songs by the most celebrated French song composers, and others perhaps less well-known to English audiences. ‘One of the particular joys of recording for Champs Hill is to be allowed to programme discs with freedom,’ comments Williams. ‘We assembled the programme as one would a recital programme, contrasting the delicate austerity of late Faureģ with the rich sonority of Caplet. We hoped the resulting shape would resemble an evening’s song recital, in which the first half begins gently, grows into something more voluptuous before finishing with a riotous drinking song to lead to the interval; the second begins with a challenging contemporary piece before the reward of great fun, and the whole evening ends with hilarity, mischief and bravura. And not to forget a brief encore, a nod to the most quintessential of French early-twentieth-century composers. To create and record this programme in such charming, relaxed surroundings was a treat; we hope you will enjoy listening in the same quixotic mood.’
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Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Mario Venzago, Keri Fuge, Roderick Williams, Joshua Tan – Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights, Echoes for Strings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:41 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Bernard Herrmann is considered one of Hollywood’s most important composers, creating more than 50 film scores, and is especially known for his congenial collaborations with Orson Welles and later Alfred Hitchcock. But Herrmann also created regular classical works: presented here for the first time is Hans Sorensen’s Suite with excerpts from Herrmann’s opera Wuthering Heights. Echoes, also presented here, was composed in 1965 for string quartet and later arranged by Sorensen for string orchestra – the version heard on this album.
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Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence, Roderick Williams, William Vann – Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs, Vol. 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:41 minutes | 983 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Albion
This is the third in a series of four albums recording all 81 of the folk songs in English that Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged for voice and piano or violin. 57 of the 81 songs have not previously been recorded in these arrangements.
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Hallé, Sir Mark Elder & Roderick Williams – A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:44 minutes | 605 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Halle Concerts Society
This album represents the culmination of what leading British baritone Roderick Williams described as ‘a dream come true’. It features premiere recordings of his orchestrations of songs by Vaughan Williams and other composers associated with him and is released to commemorate those who perished in WWI.
Featuring orchestrations by Williams of his favourite songs from the 20th-century English repertoire this album contains works by Vaughan Williams and composers associated with him. It includes specially commissioned new arrangements of songs by women composers Ina Boyle, Ruth Gipps, Madeleine Dring and Rebecca Clarke.
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