Sacconi Quartet
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Special offer. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Rise, Heart
Roderick Williams (baritone) with Sacconi Quartet, Levi Andreassen (double bass), William Vann (piano)
[Williams] could coax you into listening to a railway timetable set to music! It's good to hear the Five Mystical Songs shorn of the chorus in a version for string quintet and piano from 1925.... —
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The Complete Songs of Ravel
Lorna Anderson, Sarah Dufresne (sopranos), Julie Boulianne, Paula Murrihy (mezzos), Dafydd Jones, Nicky Spence (tenors), John Chest, Simon Keenlyside (baritones), William Thomas (bass), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
A particular highlight is baritone Simon Keenlyside’s Histoires naturelles...his suave storytelling rejoices in Renard’s mordant characterisations. But above all, subtly shaded, Martineau’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2025, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Vocal Choice
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Special offer. Jonathan Dove: In Damascus
RecommendedMark Padmore (tenor), Charles Owen (piano)
Sacconi Quartet
Both Padmore and the Sacconi Quartet, who have a major expressive role as accompanists, are at their finest in ‘Soon, we will be free’, the serene, lyrical heart of [In Damascus]…pianist Charles... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Recording of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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a format that allows these quartets, showing Mendelssohn at his best, to reveal their multifarious qualities: energy, passion, tenderness, wit and civilised authority...Overall, I can only applaud... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden' & Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131
Sacconi Quartet (string quartet)
The players have a notable consistency of tone, perhaps partly thanks to the fact that the three higher instruments are all by the influential 20th-century Italian luthier from which the quartet... —
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Special offer. John McCabe: Silver Nocturnes
John McCabe (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone), David Pyatt (horn)
Sacconi Quartet
Silver Nocturnes blurs the boundary between string quartet and quintet…Williams has the necessary strength and intensity for the music’s bleak dramaticism. The Horn Quintet (2010-11) confirms... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 15 - Finzi 2
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Sacconi Quartet
Roderick Williams… is an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is… revelatory. …Williams…... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Special offer. On the streets and in the sky (Works by Jonathan Dove)
Charles Owen (piano), Katya Apekisheva (piano), Philippe Sly (baritone), Sacconi Quartet
On the streets and in the sky is a meditation on the pandemic and lockdown when anxieties proliferated...With a clean, bright and incisive urgency, the Sacconis earth the resolute purposefulness... —
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Brian Elias: Music For Wind
Adam MacKenzie (bassoon), David Zucchi, Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Mark Simpson (clarinet), Amy Harman (bassoon), Chamber Domaine, Sacconi Quartet, Thomas Kemp
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Roxana Panufnik: Heartfelt
Roderick Williams (baritone), Robin Ashwell (viola), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Hannah Dawson (violin), Andy Marshall (double bass), Amy Harman (bassoon), Charles Owen (piano), Mary Bevan (soprano)
Sacconi Quartet
each work [is] a demonstration of Panufnik’s ability to deeply integrate multiple sources...Williams is reliably superb. —
