Beethoven: Lieder und Gesänge
Roderick Williams (baritone), Ann Murray (mezzo) & Iain Burnside (piano)
…the wonderful Roderick Williams… animates and energises everything he does. He sings with relish, makes the most of the words… and infectiously communicates a pleasure that it can’t always...
Beethoven: Lieder und Gesänge
Roderick Williams (baritone), Ann Murray (mezzo) & Iain Burnside (piano)
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…the wonderful Roderick Williams… animates and energises everything he does. He sings with relish, makes the most of the words… and infectiously communicates a pleasure that it can’t always...
About
The first in a two part set of Beethoven's Lieder und Gesänge (the second part is SIGCD145).
Beethoven himself was not a keen song writer, yet despite this almost half of his total works call for a voice. This disc includes some of the best of those compositions.
Contents and tracklist
Work length1:49
Awards and reviews
January 2009
…the wonderful Roderick Williams… animates and energises everything he does. He sings with relish, makes the most of the words… and infectiously communicates a pleasure that it can’t always have been easy to feel…
February 2009
Two thirds of the numbers on this pair of CDs go to Roderick Williams, whose clean, mellifluous timbre, firm legato and expressive diction are well nigh ideal.