A Shropshire Lad: English Songs Orchestrated by Roderick Williams
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Label: Halle
Cat No: CDHLL7559
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 4th November 2022
Contents
Works
The Joy of Earth (orch. Roderick Williams)To Gratiana dancing and singing (orch. Roderick Williams)
When I set out for Lyonesse (orch. Roderick Williams)
Songs from A Shropshire Lad (6) (orch. Roderick Williams)
The Seal Man (orch. Roderick Williams)
Take, O Take Those Lips Away (orch. Roderick Williams)
Silent noon (orch. Roderick Williams)
The Pulley (orch. Roderick Williams)
Great Things (orch. Roderick Williams)
Sea Fever (orch. Roderick Williams)
The House of Life (orch. Roderick Williams)
Artists
Roderick Williams (baritone)Halle Orchestra
Conductor
Mark ElderWorks
The Joy of Earth (orch. Roderick Williams)To Gratiana dancing and singing (orch. Roderick Williams)
When I set out for Lyonesse (orch. Roderick Williams)
Songs from A Shropshire Lad (6) (orch. Roderick Williams)
The Seal Man (orch. Roderick Williams)
Take, O Take Those Lips Away (orch. Roderick Williams)
Silent noon (orch. Roderick Williams)
The Pulley (orch. Roderick Williams)
Great Things (orch. Roderick Williams)
Sea Fever (orch. Roderick Williams)
The House of Life (orch. Roderick Williams)
Artists
Roderick Williams (baritone)Halle Orchestra
Conductor
Mark ElderAbout
Featuring orchestrations by Williams of his favourite songs from the 20th-century English repertoire this album contains works by Vaughan Williams and composers associated with him. It includes specially commissioned new arrangements of songs by women composers Ina Boyle, Ruth Gipps, Madeleine Dring and Rebecca Clarke.
The album features the work of composers who were killed in the First World War, George Butterworth, William Denis Browne and Ernest Farrar and is released to coincide with Remembrance Day.
These songs portray the composers’ evocative responses to the poetry they set, and Williams’s orchestrations further convey the songs meaning through highly effective use of orchestral instruments and textures.
Roderick Williams OBE is one of Britain’s most sought-after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. In 2016 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the Year award. He is also a composer and has had works premiered at the Wigmore and Barbican Halls, the Purcell Room and live on national radio. He was awarded an OBE for services to music in June 2017.
This release follows hugely successful previous Vaughan Williams volumes including most recently (June 2022) Sinfonia Antartica (no.7) and no.9 (CDHLD7558).
“Some years ago, I wrote that ‘few orchestras today play Vaughan Williams as well as the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder’, a belief I still hold. This pair of symphonies on the new album ranks as some of Elder’s greatest work with Hallé…” – Michael Cookson Music Web International
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