Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams [ Red House Records / CD - released 23/May/2015 ] Having performed with everyone from Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, and Keith Richards to Paul Simon and Mavis Staples, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams breakout with their self-titled debut album. A scorching collection of roots-rock songs featuring 8... |
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams (LP) [ Red House Records / LP - released 23/May/2015 ] Having performed with everyone from Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, and Keith Richards to Paul Simon and Mavis Staples, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams breakout with their self-titled debut album. A scorching collection of roots-rock songs featuring 8... |
Larry Williams
At His Finest: The Specialty Rock'n'Roll Years [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Appalachia / Sea Drift Leon Williams (baritone) / The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay & The Florida Orchestra, Stefan Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Appalachia (a native American word for North America) is a set of variations based on a slave song about the tragedy of the cotton planters 'being sold down the river'. Delius heard the song when teaching the violin in Virginia, but the primary... |
Lester Williams
The Texas Blues Of Lester Williams - I Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use [ Jasmine / CD - released 14/May/2021 ] This great and influential blues guitarist gets a full career CD containing all of his major releases for different labels. Features examples of his work from the Macy's, Speciality and Duke labels for the first time ever on one CD. Fans of T-Bone... |
BRAHMS
String Sextets 1 & 2 The Lindsays, with Louise Williams (viola) and Paul Watkins (cello) [ Alto / CD - released 3/Sep/2015 ] both sextets have a compelling sense of direction - in the Second's magnificent first movement, we can feel what a giant young Brahms had become. |
Lisa Milne, Roderick Williams with Iain Burnside (piano)
Moonstruck: Songs of FG Scott [ Signum / CD - released 16/May/2007 ] "Here's an important discovery ailing from the Scottish Borders...a compelling collection that reveals FG Scott as poetic yet clear-eyed and, above all, songful." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine August 2007 |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Music, Vol. 5 Llŷr Williams (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] The great A minor of D845 was the first of his piano sonatas that Schubert made any effort to have published. Written in the spring of 1825, there is an air of defiance about the writing, perhaps the composer's response to his terminal diagnosis.... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Music, Vol. 6 Llŷr Williams (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] This album contains the earliest three of Schubert's piano sonatas Llŷr Williams included in his Cardiff series (there are eight earlier works in the genre-in varying states of completion). All three remained unpublished until after the composer's... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Excerpts from Années de pèlerinage - Italie & other works Llyr Williams (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 30/Jul/2012 ] 'Pèlerinage highlights from Wales's pre-eminent pianist' (Gramophone) |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Pictures from an exhibition / Debussy: Estampes / Liszt: Ave Maria Llyr Williams (piano) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] 'Williams allows the music's brand of sophisticated spontaneity to speak memorably for itself' (BBC Music Magazine) |
FRANZ LISZT / RICHARD WAGNER
Liszt/Wagner: Wagner without Words Llyr Williams (piano) [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2014 ] "It's a totally convincing collection, and technically superb; Williams is equal to the toughest challenges that Liszt presents, but always puts Wagner first...everything has a sense of dramatic purpose." The Guardian |
Lucinda Williams
Ramblin' [ Retro World / CD - released 6/Apr/2010 ] |
Lucinda Williams
Runnin' Down A Dream: A Tribute To Tom Petty [ Thirty Tigers / CD - released 16/Apr/2021 ] Lucinda Williams is a three-time Grammy award-winner, who's latest studio album, Good Souls Better Angels, was featured on Best of 2020 lists from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Mojo, No Depression & Pop Matters. Now Williams returns with six-volume... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Alceste (complete opera) Lucy Crowe / Benjamin Hulett / Andrew Foster Williams / Early Opera Company / Christian Curnyn [ Chandos / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] "Alcestis's journey to the Underworld is enchanting, with Curnyn's fleet strings, intimately proportioned chorus, and polished soloists" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013 Opera WINNER |
GEORGE FREDERICK McKAY
Violin Concerto / Sinfonietta No. 4 / Song Over the Great Plains Ludmilla Kovaleva, piano / Brian Reagin, violin / Ukraine National Radio Symphony Orchestra / John McLaughlin Williams, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2005 ] "Naxos's third McKay disc ... a worthy revival of music that could otherwise have been lost to posterity" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
WILLIAM ALWYN
Chamber Music and Songs Madeleine Mitchell / Roger Chase / Andrew Ball / Jeremy Huw-Williams [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] "The performances on this CD are - as usual from Naxos - of a very high standard and the various performers sound as if they have been playing this music all of their lives" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
Marc Williams
The Forgotten Singing Cowboy [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Apr/2004 ] Unlike so many of the country performers of the day, Williams shows no evidence of having been influenced by Jimmie Rodgers.He appears to be influenced by the more traditional western singers although his material... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica / Four Last Songs / Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier (pianos), Roderick Williams (baritone) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] "This would be my present first choice ... The Bergen players are especially effective, the huge orchestration never cluttered or opaque in SACD spaciousness ..." BBC Music magazine - Christmas 2017 |
Marlon Williams
Make Way For Love (LP) [ Caroline / LP - released 29/Jan/2021 ] Known for his effortlessly distinctive voice, Make Way For Love, Marlon Williams' second album, marks his exponential growth as a songwriter. Throughout 11 original songs, he explores new musical terrain and reveals himself in an unprecedented way in... |