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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Newby, who turns 30 this year, has the kind of powerful natural presence that also belongs to Bryn Terfel, and the timbre of his voice has come to resemble Terfel’s in its plummy warmth and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: A Birthday Garland
Roderick Williams (baritone), Susie Allan (piano)
I can confirm that Williams is on splendid form, responding with impeccable technique, burnished tone and perceptive observation throughout. —
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Finzi: Love's Labours Lost, Let Us Garlands Bring & other works
Jane Manning (soprano) & John Noble (baritone), John Carol Case (baritone), Ian Partridge (tenor)
John Alldis Choir & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
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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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There's a touch of genius about Bryn Terfel.
To those who've known most of these songs since childhood and heard them well performed innumerable times, it will come not quite as a revelation... —Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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British Music Collection - Gerald Finzi
RecommendedBryn Terfel, Philip Langridge, Donald Sweeney, Benjamin Luxon
Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, David Hill, Richard Hickox, Edward Higginbottom, Neville Marriner
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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English Orchestral Songs
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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In Memoriam - Classical Music and Readings for Funerals
Paul Halley (organ), Noel Edison (choirmaster), Josette Simon (reader), Simon Russell Beale (reader), Ingrid Kertesi (soprano), Colm Carey (organ), Lisa Beckley (soprano), Jasper Britton (reader), Jozsef Mukk (tenor), Laura Paton (reader), Philip Madoc (reader), Alex Jennings (reader), Anton Lesser...
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