Williams, Grace
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Special offer. Welsh Music For Strings
RecommendedJessica Robinson, Côr Llundain, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
Premiere recordings one and all, and an hour-long selection that will surely afford much pleasure...Prospective purchasers can rest assured that Owain Arwel Hughes obtains consistently spry... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Grace Williams: The Parlour - Opera in One Act
Welsh National Opera Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Brian Balkwill
her own voice shines through powerfully and this realistically recorded performance, albeit in rather rough sound to modern ears, fills an important gap in her steadily growing discography. —
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Grace Williams: Violin Concerto, Elegy for String Orchestra & Sinfonia concertante for Piano & Orchestra
Geneva Lewis (violin), Clare Hammond (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jaime Martín, Ryan Bancroft, Jac van Steen
The Violin Concerto was recorded at a Prom in 2023, and it's a concentrated performance, with a strong sense of the impassioned lyricism of the opening movement. —
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it’s the strikingly dramatic four Ballads, from 1968, and especially the 1939 Four Illustrations for the Legend of Rhiannon, based on an episode from the Mabinogion, and in which Sibelius seems... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Orchestral
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Breaking Waves
Grace Williams - Grażyna Bacewicz - Johanna Müller-Hermann
Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Malin Broman
these immediate, intense performances, directed by leader Malin Broman, grip from start to finish. —
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British Symphonies
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, Vernon Handley, Adrian Boult, Myer Fredman, Norman Del Mar, John Pritchard, Lennox Berkeley, William Alwyn, Josef Krips
this is a very significant release which really deserves to be snapped up by everyone, not least those who still cling to the discredited belief that when it comes to composing symphonies, Britain... —
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Grace Williams: Missa Cambrensis
April Fredrick (soprano), Angharad Lyddon (mezzo-soprano), Robert Murray (tenor), Paul Carey Jones (bass-baritone), Dr Rowan Willliams (narrator),
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Côr Heol y March, Adrian Partington
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Grace Williams
Anthony Camden (oboe), Howard Snell (trumpet)
London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Groves, David Atherton
It is good to have this attractive programme of works restored to the catalogue, all by a woman composer who (rarely among twentieth-century female musicians) glowingly shows that she believes... —
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