Browse: Williams, Roderick (composer)
This page lists all recordings composed by Roderick Williams (b.1965).
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From Weelkes we have the immensely subtle Hark all ye lovely saints, set to springy, vertiginous changes of metre beautifully negotiated by the singers, and his In nomine a 4, performed in a... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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I can confirm that Williams is on splendid form, responding with impeccable technique, burnished tone and perceptive observation throughout. — More…
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Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Sampson’s vocal security throughout the registers, clear diction, and patrician phrasing all testify to a complete artist. And Sampson proves every bit as much at home in the modernist works... — More…
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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Williams’s voice, with its smooth production and clear, unforced high notes, is well suited to the French mélodie, while his pronunciation is excellent. The Poulenc and Honegger songs are particularly... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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It’s a rather rarefied sound the choir makes in this mostly a cappella selection of contemporary and altogether contemplative works. The moments of colour are few and far between as a result,... — More…
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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power
The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... — More…
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Most conservative in idiom are those of Roderick Williams, moonlighting from his day-job as a baritone. His St John setting O Guiding Night is striking for the instinctive word-setting and audibly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Upheld by Stillness
RecommendedRenaissance gems and their reflections - Volume 1: Byrd
ORA, Suzi Digby (artistic director and conductor)
ORA is made up of some of the UK’s finest consort singers, sitting to my ears somewhere between The Sixteen and Tenebrae…The melancholy severity of Byrd’s original is beautifully measured, ORA... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th February 2016
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This is a marvellous programme of Music for Advent and it is executed superbly by the Clare College Choir. It’s obvious that the standard built up during Timothy Brown’s long leadership, especially,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th December 2013
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