Vocal, Vocal (Chamber), Finzi (composer)
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Special offer. 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…... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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By Footpath and Stile
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Ruth Bolister (oboe), Robert Plane (clarinet)
Finzi Quartet
Finzi’s early song cycle sets poetry by Hardy, and baritone Marcus Farnsworth catches evocatively its preoccupation with themes of mortality —
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[Williams] has a mellow, refined tone, distinctively poetic delivery, and is keenly sensitive to the words. And with Allan’s lively support, he can unleash sufficient vigour in the emotional... —
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..this is not a recital restricted to one vocal hue. Each song is looked at and receives relevant response from both singer and pianist. ….he (Mark Stone) introduces so much by way of nuance... —
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Special offer. The Essential Roderick Williams
Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano), Martin Ford, Attacca Quartet, Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, David Lloyd-Jones
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Special offer. Green & Pleasant Land
British Music
Christopher Whitton (organ), Graham Johnson (piano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Michael Cox (flute), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Iain Farrington (organ), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Duke Quartet, Northern Sinfonia, Royal Scottish...
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Special offer. The Essential Royal Northern Sinfonia
Bradley Creswick, Tim Hugh (cello), Benjamin Frith (piano), Lars Vogt (piano), Robert Plane (clarinet), Alain Trudel, Peter Donohoe (piano), Thomas S. Allen, Simon Lindley, Marat Bisengaliev (violin), Philip Langridge (tenor), Gerald Finzi, Northern Sinfonia, Howard Griffiths, David Lloyd-Jones,...
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Special offer. A Finzi Anthology
Robert Plane (clarinet), Tim Hugh (cello), Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano), James Gilchrist (tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
Finzi's ineffable enchantment at word setting and musicality generally has an enduring place in pastoral-mystical-ecstatic British music. The only Finzi boxed set. —
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