Vaughan Williams: Discoveries Roderick Williams
Album info
Album-Release:
2016
HRA-Release:
10.10.2016
Label: Albion
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Artist: Roderick Williams, Jennifer Johnston, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Martyn Brabbins
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- 1Nocturne No. 1. Smile O Voluptuous Cool-Breathd Earth03:53
- 2Nocturne No. 2. Whispers of Heavenly Death06:03
- 3Nocturne No. 3. Out of the Rolling Ocean07:52
- 4A Road All Paved with Stars (after R. Vaughan Williams A Poisoned Kiss)27:05
- 5Stricken Peninsula (arr. P. Lane)08:15
- 6No. 1. Procris02:29
- 7No. 2. Tired02:12
- 8No. 3. Hands, Eyes and Heart01:29
- 9No. 4. Menelaus05:05
Info for Vaughan Williams: Discoveries
Discoveries offers world-première recordings of works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and an insight into him as a visionary, as a romantic, as a patriot and as a lover. The works presented here span his entire working career, from the Three Nocturnes of 1908 to the Four Last Songs composed fifty years later. What unites them is that living composers have been involved in realising them in their present form. Three composers, Anthony Payne, Adrian Williams and Philip Lane, combine an understanding of Vaughan Williams’s music with a deep love of it, so that the additional writing enhances rather than conceals or modifies RVW’s original.
Roderick Williams, baritone (on tracks 1 - 3)
Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano (on tracks 6 – 9)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Roderick Williams
sings a wide repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, in the opera house, on the concert platform, and in recital. He has performed in all the major opera houses in the United Kingdom and is particularly associated with the baritone rôles of Mozart. He has also sung world premières of operas by David Sawer, Sally Beamish, Michael van der Aa, Robert Saxton and Alexander Knaifel. Williams sings concert repertoire with all the BBC orchestras as well as the Bournemouth Symphony, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Russian National Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, among many others. His festival appearances include the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Melbourne. Roderick Williams is also a composer and has had works performed at the Barbican Centre, the Purcell Room, and Wigmore Hall.