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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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Requiem – The Pity of War
RecommendedMahler – Stephan – Butterworth – Weill
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Sir Antonio Pappano (piano)
Bostridge and Antonio Pappano are on superb form here, carefully responsive to style and mood, yet striving throughout for unsparing immediacy of expression…Stephan’s taxing vocal lines push... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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British Music Collection - George Butterworth
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), David Willison (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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A sense of the mannered or precious can debase these songs; Keenlyside's sweeping, robust lyricism is deceptively effortless and exactly right...Dr Johnson once said that every man thinks worse... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
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George Butterworth: Orchestral Works
RecommendedJames Rutherford (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kriss Russman
[Russman] brings out the poignant lyricism with exceptional freshness and strength…to the AE Housman settings James Rutherford brings characteristic mellow-toned vigour and expressive delivery…congratulations... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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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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The English Song Series Volume 20 - George Butterworth
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Roderick Williams [is] rapidly becoming the voice of this repertoire - and not without reason. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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[Stone is] a fine performer, well supported by Barlow - and a thoughtful one, as his sleeve notes confirm —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2010, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Young Talent
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