Browse: English Song Series (series)

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... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Roderick Williams [is] rapidly becoming the voice of this repertoire - and not without reason. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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. Every... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…Susan Bickley shares with Gurney a direct and instinctive response to the inflections, metres and emotional colours of the English language. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Venables] manages to create worthwhile new artefacts within his conservative idiom. Expertly crafted, the results offer something genuinely personal and at times profound...Andrew Kennedy is... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

All three singers are very good, particularly Spence, but the star of [the] show is Matthews-Owen. So much of the effectiveness of these songs lies in Dove's inventive piano writing with its... — American Record Guide More…