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A Shropshire Lad
English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams
Roderick Williams (baritone), Hallé Orchestra, Mark Elder
Williams is accompanied throughout by his own orchestral reimaginings; and he’s evidently an orchestrator with a fine ear and lively imagination...This is all exquisitely sung too. The melodic... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Voice & Orchestra
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Proud Songsters: English Solo Song
Gerald Finley, James Gilchrist, Michael Chance, Lawrence Zazzo, Tim Mead, Ruairi Bowen, Andrew Staples, Ashley Riches, Mark Stone, Simon Lepper
Richly harmonised Edwardian salon settings of distinguished poetry mingle with mildly poignant, almost Ravelian (though avoiding that French master’s occasional acerbic tartness) post-World... —
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
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encouraged by Freeman’s limpid touch, he finely captures the changing moods of the canticle My beloved is mine, from impassioned declamation to the stillness of ‘He is my Altar’ and the quiet... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Tritschler proves an expert guide to all this material. His linguistic and vocal skills combine to splendid effect...Tritschler's technical and expressive skills combine throughout to bring... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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Unveiled: Britten, Tippett, Gipps, Browne, Thomas
Elgan Llŷr Thomas (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano), Craig Ogden (guitar)
Hearing Britten's Michelangelo Sonnets in Jeremy Sams's direct English translations is quite a revelation, underlining the fact that this is a cycle about a 'love that dare not speak its name'... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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In Flanders Fields
A celebration of the poets & composers of the Great War 1914-1918
Fiona Kimm (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Ball (piano)
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War's Embers: English Songs of World War 1
Clifford Benson (piano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Michael George (bass (vocal)), Martyn Hill (tenor)
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Love’s Old Sweet Song
Songs from British composers, 1823-1945
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano) & James Baillieu (piano)
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The recital begins with Keats and ends with Shakespeare: that can't be bad. But it also begins with Stanford and ends with Parry; what would the modernists of their time have thought about that?... —
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