A Shropshire Lad - English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams

A Shropshire Lad

Orchestrations by Roderick Williams

John Ireland (1914-1992)

Great Things

Sea Fever

Ina Boyle (1889-1967)

The Joy of Earth

William Denis Browne (1888-191

To Gratiana dancing and singing

George Butterworth (1885-1916)

Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’

Ruth Gipps (1921-1999)

The pulley

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

The House of Life

Madeleine Dring (1923-1977)

Take, O take those lips away

James Burton (b.1974)

When I set out for Lyonesse

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)

The seal man

Ernest Farrar (1885-1918)

Silent noon

Roderick Williams (baritone)

The Hallé Orchestra

Mark Elder

rec. 2022, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester

Stephen Hough - Piano Concerto; Sonatina nostalgica; Partita

Stephen HOUGH (b. 1961)

Piano Concerto ‘The world of yesterday’ (2023)

Sonatina nostalgica (2019)

Partita (2019)

Stephen Hough (piano)

Hallé Orchestra

Mark Elder

rec. live, 15, 16 & 19 May 2024, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK (Concerto); 11 June 2024, (Sonatina), 11 

September 2024, (Partita), St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, UK

Gaetano Donizetti - Rita (Deux Hommes et une Femme)

Gaetano DONIZETTI (1797-1848)

Rita - Deux Hommes et une Femme (1841)

Rita, strident and dominating proprietress of an inn – Katarina Karnéus (mezzo); 

Pepé, her wimp husband – Barry Banks (tenor); 

Gasparo, Rita’s first husband, thought drowned – Christopher Maltman (baritone)

Hallé Orchestra

Sir Mark Elder

rec. Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, September 2012