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CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Faust (complete original opera production from 1859) Véronique Gens, Andrew Foster-Williams; Benjamin Bernheim; Jean-Sébastien Bou /Flemish Radio Choir, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset [ Bru Zane / 3 CD/Book - released 23/Aug/2019 ] "It also happens to be a terrific recording on its own terms...Rousset underpins it all with conducting that is fleet and dramatically engaged." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short list - Opera |
SEMYON BARMOTIN
Barmotin: Piano Music - 20 Preludes / theme and Variations Christopher Williams (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 10/Jun/2020 ] Semyon Alexeyevich Barmotin (1877-1939) was a student of Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov, and his fate under the Soviet regime in the 1930s remains a mystery, but what survives of his music is impressive in both scale and content. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Rarities Christopher Williams (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] Recent scholarship has brought numerous compositions by the excessively self-critical Mendelssohn into print and has ensured more accurate compositional dates for them. Many of these rare and little-known examples are encountered on this album. The... |
HOWARD SKEMPTON
Howard Skempton: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christopher Yates (viola) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Martyn Brabbins [ NMC / CD - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Perfectly crafted, deceptively simplistic and distinctively individual, Howard Skempton's compositions have a soundworld all of their own. This new full-length album on NMC perfectly displays his experimental, yet sonorous and tonal... |
SCHUBERT
Impromptus & Ländler D366 Cordelia Williams (piano) [ Somm / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] "Her playing has a warmth and finely judged flexibility that are immediately attractive...it's the spontaneity of the performances, as well as the beauty of the piano tone that linger in the mind." (BBC Music) |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem (with Mozart-Ave verum corpus, K618, etc) Elin Manahan Thomas, Roderick Williams, Ruth Massey, Mark Dobell / The Sixteen / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Harry Christophers [ Coro Live / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] The result of a brand new collaboration between two of the finest modern day exponents of classical music, this exquisite disc brings fresh life to Fauré's peerless Requiem and injects imaginative invention and poetic phrasing into two of Mozart's... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Starlight Express, Op. 78 Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Simon Callow (narrator) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "Davis secures absolutely first-rate results from the Scottish CO. Elin Manahan Thomas's light and slivery soprano could hardly be more suited to the parts of the Laugher and Jane-Anne, while Roderick Williams is in glorious voice throughout."... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age of Light Music: Buried Treasures Robert Farnon, George Melachrino, Sidney Torch, Charles Williams, Wally Stott, Stanford Robinson, etc [ Guild / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] Sometimes commercial recordings are quickly deleted from record companies' catalogues long before they come to the attention of would-be purchasers. Other music is recorded for use purely within the worlds of broadcasting and films, and it is never... |
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Gareth Williams Power Trio
Shock! [ Linn / SACD - released 21/Mar/2009 ] |
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Gary Williams
Alone Together [ Vocalion / CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] |
ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Solo Songs (Complete) Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) / Adrian Thompson (tenor) / Roderick Williams (baritone) / John Talbot (piano) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 18/Aug/2010 ] "The songs comprise an impressive body, light-hued but intense, tinged with a distinctly Celtic melancholy...they're all well worth hearing." BBC Music Magazine, June 2010 ***** |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: King Lear (recorded live Strafford-Upon-Avon, 2016) Royal Shakespeare Company / Antony Sher, Natalie Simpson, Nia Gwynne, Kelly Williams / Robin Lough (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 7/Aug/2017 ] King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 1 'A Sea Symphony' Katherine Broderick (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Halle Choir, Youth Choir & Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder [ Halle / CD - released 6/Nov/2015 ] "The superbly honed choral and orchestral contribution surely testifies to many hours of painstaking preparation." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2016 - Orchestral) |
Hank Williams
Five Classic Albums (Hank Williams Sings / Moanin' The Blues / Memorial Albums / Honky Tonkin' / Ramblin' Man) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] Hank Williams was a man of many parts, Country singer Marty Stuart says he's "a part of the fabric of America" ... perhaps the first superstar of country music. As musical legends go they don't come much greater than Hiram King "Hank" Williams! Born... |
Hank Williams Senior
His Greatest Hits, Volume 1 - Honky Tonkin' [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Apr/2001 ] Through Fred Rose, Hank gained his first recording contract with the small New York-based STERLING label and for whom he recorded two four-title sessions, in December 1946 and the following February... |
Hank Williams Senior
His Greatest Hits, Volume 2 - Long Gone Lonesome Blues [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Sep/2001 ] Volume One of Hank Williams' Greatest Hits left him at the beginning of March 1949, an established Country star and acknowledged songwriter, although his biggest hit then just about to break... |
DANTE
The Divine Comedy 1. Inferno (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 3/Jan/2005 ] 'Abandon all hope you who enter here' (Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate). Dante's Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages, it is, at the same time, an account of terrifying realism... |
ALIGHIERI DANTE
The Divine Comedy 2. Purgatory (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams (reader) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 3/Jan/2005 ] Now of that second kingdom I shall sing where human souls are purified of sin and made worthy to ascend to Heaven' Purgatory is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy ascending the terraces of the Mount of Purgatory inhabited by those doing... |
DANTE
The Divine Comedy 3. Paradise (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] Originally released on 3 CDs in abridged form. Now available on 4 CDs unabridged. 'I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget…' Led by his guide... |
ALIGHIERI DANTE
Dante: The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatory - Paradise (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 13 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2004 ] Dante's vision The Divine Comedy has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early fourteenth century. |
