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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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Sherratt possesses that rare gift – a genuine bass voice that carries its lyrical, expressive clarity from its ringing high notes right down to a full-toned basso profundo delivered without... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Song
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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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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Special offer. 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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[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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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.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, Choral & Song Choice
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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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Special offer. Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121, etc.
Jonathan Lemalu (bass baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2002, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Debut Recording
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Evening Songs
Delius and Ireland Songs arranged for cello and piano
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Jiaxin Cheng (cello) & John Lenehan (piano)
Hearing the songs of both composers without the texts, and played with such attention to contour and gradation, reminds us just how masterly and diverse both composers were in their art of the... —
