Latest News: Classical, Roderick Williams (Baritone)
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Presto Music Classical Podcast,
Episode 44: Take me to your Lieder - Schubert in English with Roderick Williams, Rowan Pierce and Christopher Glynn 18th November 2023Baritone, soprano and pianist offer their perspectives on the latest instalment in Signum Classics's series, which features Jeremy Sams's translations of Schubert Lieder.
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Recording of the Week,
Selections from Bernard Herrmann's only opera, Wuthering Heights 30th June 2023Soprano Keri Fuge and baritone Roderick Williams join the Singapore Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago to perform highlights from a neglected work by a composer known mostly for his film scores, based on the novel by Emily Brontë.
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Interview,
Vaughan Williams's folksong arrangements 22nd October 2020Baritone Roderick Williams, pianist William Vann, and researcher John Francis discuss the first instalment in a new series of recordings, featuring previously unheard folksong arrangements by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
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Interview,
Roderick Williams on the songs of Arthur Somervell 25th June 2020The English baritone talks to David about his new recording of two song-cycles by this rarely-heard Victorian composer, including a setting of Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad'.
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Recording of the Week,
Roderick Williams sings a new work by Howard Skempton: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 21st April 2017Katherine very much enjoys baritone Roderick Williams in a new work by Howard Skempton: a setting of Coleridge's poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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Interview,
Roderick Williams on Schubert 13th September 2016Katherine talks to the baritone about the first furlong of his Schubertian odyssey.
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Recording of the Week,
Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside perform Schubert Lieder 19th August 2016Katherine listens to Roderick Williams' Schubert recital disc, with pianist Iain Burnside.
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Interview,
Roderick Williams warms up for The Last Night of the Proms 11th September 2014The baritone (and regular Presto customer!) talks to Katherine about the festival ahead of Saturday's performance.
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Recording of the Week,
Two important Elgar rarities 9th November 2009Sir Andrew Davis conducts The Crown of India with the BBC Philharmonic, and Roderick Williams and others explore The Fringes of the Fleet, a patriotic song-cycle setting texts by Rudyard Kipling.