English Song Series
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The English Song Series Volume 22 - Benjamin Britten
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Williams brings a gentler, more intimate touch to what Fischer-Dieskau called their 'enigmatic smile': Blake's Tyger burns bright but with less fierce teeth, and there is more melancholy than... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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The English Song Series Volume 7 - Benjamin Britten 1
RecommendedPhilip Langridge (tenor), Steuart Bedford (piano)
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also recommended
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Another irresistible volume in The English Song Series: a compilation of John Ireland which reveals the sheer breadth of emotional experience and variegated piano writing within his songs.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, Choral & Song Choice
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The English Song Series Volume 14 - Vaughan Williams 2
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Naxos' English Song Series comes up trumps again - here Roderick Williams delivers sensitive performances of the two song-cycles Songs of Travel and The House of Life. An especial highlight... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
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The English Song Series Volume 16 - Finzi Tenor Songs
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano)
John Mark Ainsley's approach to music like this suggests that he comes to Finzi without any of the usual preconceptions. What he finds here… is an intensely musical feeling for words that's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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The English Song Series Volume 19 - Ivor Gurney Songs
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano)
…Susan Bickley shares with Gurney a direct and instinctive response to the inflections, metres and emotional colours of the English language. — More…
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The English Song Series Volume 15 - Finzi 2
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Sacconi Quartet
Roderick Williams… is an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is… revelatory. …Williams…... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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You would have to look hard for a better introduction to Finzi… The songs are the core of his achievement… Roderick Williams's elegant and delicate performances reveal the heart of this music... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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The English Song Series Volume 20 - George Butterworth
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Roderick Williams [is] rapidly becoming the voice of this repertoire - and not without reason. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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The English Song Series Volume 6 - Gustav Holst
Susan Gritton (soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Louisa Fuller (violin), Steuart Bedford (piano)
The Four Songs for voice and violin, settings of medieval texts, were inspired by the composer hearing one of his pupils singing to herself and playing her violin in Thaxted Church.They're singularly... — More…
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