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The English Song Series Volume 22 - Benjamin Britten
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
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... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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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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Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears: The Early HMV Recordings
Benjamin Britten (piano) & Peter Pears (tenor)
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Folk Stories
Songs by Beethoven, Britten & Mahler
Cora Burggraaf (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano), Liza Ferschtman (violin) & Floris Mijnders (cello)
The essence of folk song is outward simplicity: this disc is a wide-ranging selection of arrangements and originals, performed with artful directness. —
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Phan has both the introspection and the power for this idiosyncratic approach to Italian fire...The Hardy tableaux of Winter Words are all atmospherically evoked alongside the best...but what... —
