English Song Series
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 14 - Vaughan Williams 2
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Naxos' English Song Series comes up trumps again - here Roderick Williams delivers sensitive performances of the two song-cycles Songs of Travel and The House of Life. An especial highlight... —
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
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Special offer. 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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The English Song Series Volume 19 - Ivor Gurney Songs
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano)
…Susan Bickley shares with Gurney a direct and instinctive response to the inflections, metres and emotional colours of the English language. —
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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Gurney: Songs, Vol. 2
Sleep - Severn Meadows - Snow
Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Eric McElroy (piano)
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 18 - Ireland
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
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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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 5 - Roger Quilter 1
Lisa Milne (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Louisa Fuller (violin), Ivan McCready (cello), Graham Johnson (piano)
The Duke Quartet
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 23 - Jonathan Dove Song Cycles
Claire Booth (soprano), Patricia Bardon (mezzo-soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor) & Andrew Matthews-Owen (piano)
All three singers are very good, particularly Spence, but the star of [the] show is Matthews-Owen. So much of the effectiveness of these songs lies in Dove's inventive piano writing with its... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 7 - Benjamin Britten 1
RecommendedPhilip Langridge (tenor), Steuart Bedford (piano)
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also recommended
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Special offer. The English Song Series Volume 12 - Finzi 1
Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
You would have to look hard for a better introduction to Finzi… The songs are the core of his achievement… Roderick Williams's elegant and delicate performances reveal the heart of this music... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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