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

Gavin Higgins - Horn Concerto; The Faerie Bride

Gavin HIGGINS (b. 1983)

Horn Concerto (2023)

Fanfare, Air and Flourishes for solo horn (2021)

The Faerie Bride (2021)*

Ben Goldscheider (horn)

Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-soprano); Roderick Williams (baritone)

Three Choirs Festival Chorus

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Martyn Brabbins*, Jaime Martin

rec. 2024, Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff (concerto) & the Concert Hall, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, UK; live 23 July 2023, Gloucester Cathedral (Bride)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Willow-Wood; The Sons of Light; Toward the Unknown Region

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1873-1958)

Toward the Unknown Region (1907) 

Willow-Wood (1909) *

The Voice of the Whirlwind (1947)

Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (1939)

The Sons of Light (1951) 

 

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra

David Lloyd-Jones

* World Premier recording

rec. Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 20 Feb, 8 May 2005. 

The Songs of William Busch

The Songs of William Busch

with Songs by Gerald Finzi, Elisabeth Poston and Michael Head 

Gerald FINZI (1901-1956)

As I lay in the early sun (Oh Fair to See, op.13b No 3) (1921)

Elizabeth POSTON (1905-1987)

Sweet Suffolk Owl (1925)

Gerald Finzi

Only the wanderer (Oh Fair to See, op.13b No 4) (1925)

William BUSCH(1901-1945)

Slumber Song (1931?)

Harvest Moon

Sweet Content (1933)

Michael HEAD (1900-1976)

Why Have You Stolen My Delight? (1933)

Gerald Finzi

Oh fair to see (Oh Fair to See, op.13b No 2) (1929)

William Busch

Fairies (1934)

Rest (1933)

Gerald Finzi

To Joy (Oh Fair to See, op.13b No 5) (1931)

Michael Head

The Singer (1939)

William Busch

The Centaurs (1942)

Ode to Autumn (1937)

Weep You no More (1935)

The Echoing Green (1943)

The Shepherd (1943)

The Bellman (1944)

L'Oiseau bleu (1944)

There Have Been Happy Days (1944)

The Lowest Trees have Tops (1944)

If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart (1943)

The Snowdrop in the Wind (1943)

Gerald Finzi

Harvest (Oh Fair to See, op.13b No 6) (1956)

Elizabeth Poston

The Snowdrop in the Wind

William Busch

Come, O Come My Life's Delight (1943)

Michael Head

Dear Delight (c.1965)

Elizabeth Poston

Sweet Suffolk Owl (1983)

Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano)

Robin Tritschler (tenor)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

John Reid (piano)

Recorded at Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, 21-23 June 2021

William Walton - Christopher Columbus; Hamlet and Ophelia

Sir William WALTON (1902 - 1983)

Christopher Columbus - 

A Musical Journey (1942) (concert version arr. 2002 Carl Davis and Patrick Garland)

Hamlet and Ophelia (1947)  

(Suite arr. 1967 Muir Matheson from the Hamlet film score.)

Julian Glover, speaker ... Christopher Columbus

Jamie Glover, speaker ... ironic spirit / herald

Caroline Carragher, soprano ... Isabella

Jean Rigby, Mezzo-soprano ... Beatriz / woman

Philip Lloyd Holtam, speaker ... Sailor / voice

Craig Ogden, guitar; Tom Randle, tenor solo; Roderick Williams, baritone solo

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales

Richard Hickox

Nick Whiting, leader; Adrian Partington, chorus master

Recorded in Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, UK, 17 May 2004. 

Vaughan Williams - Folk Songs Vol.1

Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

Folk Songs - Volume 1

Mary Bevan (soprano); Nicky Spence (tenor); Roderick Williams (baritone)

Jack Liebeck (violin)

William Vann (piano)

rec. 2020, Henry Wood Hall, London

Britten - Canticles; The Heart of the Matter

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Canticles & The heart of the matter

Daniel Norman (tenor)

Christopher Gould (piano)

Benjamin Maclean (treble)

William Towers (countertenor)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Harriet Walter (speaker) 

Richard Watkins (horn)

Hugh Webb (harp)

Recorded live in Oxford’s Holywell Music Room to celebrate the centenary of the composer’s birth.

Canticle III presented in its complete version as “The heart of the matter” with readings by Harriet Walter.

Canticle II (Abraham & Isaac) sung by Norman with boy treble Benjamin Maclean.

Arthur Bliss - Choral Works

Arthur BLISS (1891-1975)

Choral Works

1 Shield of Faith  

2 Mar Portugues 

3 Birthday song for a Royal Child  

4 River Music  

5 The world is charged with the grandeur of God

Anna Crookes (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Andrew Lumsden (organ)

Finzi Singers, Finzi Wind Ensemble, Paul Spicer

John Ireland - Songs - 5 Poems; We'll to the Woods No More; Sea Fever; Santa Chiara

John Ireland (1879–1962)

Songs:
5 Poems; We'll to the Woods No More; Sea Fever; Santa Chiara

Britten - Peter Grimes / Hickox, Langridge

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Peter Grimes Op 33

Alan Opie baritone

  Ameral Gunson contralto

  Anne Collins contralto

  Janice Watson soprano

  John Connell bass

  John Fryatt tenor

  Emily Hall tenor

  Matthew Best bass

  Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano

  Philip Langridge tenor

  Roderick Williams baritone

  Yvonne Barclay soprano

 

 

  London Symphony Chorus

  Opera London

  City of London Sinfonia

  Richard Hickox

 

  Recorded in:

  Blackheath Halls, London

  2-3, 5-7 July & 31 August 1995