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[Victorian parlour repertoire] proves both admirably suited to her distinctively creamy yet expressive voice, and occasionally revelatory...The well-structured programme concludes with Holst's... —
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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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Elgar - Sea Pictures & Pageant of Empire
Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 6-7 October & 10 November 2009
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
In this absorbing anthology of British orchestral songs, wchich splendidly showcases the vocal artistry of baritone Roderick Williams, Elgar bulks largest...This disc has Dutton's quintessential... —
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Roderick Williams is a national treasure. Not only is he an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song... —
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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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Lights Out
Georgina Colwell (soprano), Clare Griffel (mezzo-soprano), Ian Partridge & Paul Martyn-West (tenors), Jonathan Wood (baritone), Nigel Foster & Peter Jacobs (piano)
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James Gilchrist, a fine lyric tenor with admirable sensitivity to text, gives committed performances effectively accompanied by Nathan Williamson. —
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English Art Song
Malcolm Martineau (piano), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano), Brian Rayner Cook (baritone), Daphne Ibbott, John Carol Case (baritone), Thomas Allen (baritone), David Owen Norris (piano), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Jennifer Partridge, Ian Partridge (tenor), Rae de Lisle, Christopher...
