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...Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, by Roderick Beaton, Allen Lane, RRP£30/University of Chicago Press, RRP$35 Roderick Beaton’s impressive book sets Greece’s recent troubles in the context of recurrent...
...Elder’s exploration of his orchestra’s Barbirolli inheritance here reaches a peak (ecstatic contributions from the Hallé Choir and Youth Choir) and the pairing with Delius is inspired: baritone soloist Roderick...
...His Vaughan Williams was also impressive – not least for the way he coaxed and contoured the Proms’ voluminous new Youth Choir and BBC Symphony Chorus, with Sally Matthews and Roderick Williams as radiant...
...Roderick Williams does his considerable best to anchor the show, with support from Claron McFadden in the garden scenes. Katherine Manley is less convincing as the arts patroness....
...There is Chinese interest, too, and for an unusual reason – easy access to Clarks Village. This is a 90-unit high-end retail park eight miles from Wells....
...Creon (Brindley Sherratt, outstanding) is an army commanding officer, Orontes (Roderick Williams, excellent) an air force squadron leader, while Jason (Jeffrey Francis, stylish but long past his best) sports...
...Both CDs feature the excellent baritone soloist Roderick Williams....
...Friday’s performance coincided with the setting up of the Roderick Brydon Memorial Trust, designed to support promising student repetiteurs and conductors....
...This is not to detract from the fluency of Julia Somerville’s reading or the eloquence of Roderick Williams’s singing....
...Britten/Finzi Serenade, Nocturne/Dies Natalis Mark Padmore (Harmonia Mundi) Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Roderick Williams (Naxos)...
...Michael Head Songs Ailish Tynan, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Roderick Williams (Hyperion)...
...The rest of the concert, conducted by Mark Elder, comprised Delius’s Sea Drift and Elgar’s First Symphony, the former distinguished by the excellent Roderick Williams in the baritone solo and by the exquisitely...
...Thomas Oliemans makes a personable Figaro, Roderick Williams a stage-filling Count: both voices are better attuned to Mozart than Kate Valentine’s Countess and Nadine Livingston’s Susanna....
...Butterworth Songs from a Shropshire Lad Roderick Williams (Naxos) It is difficult to listen to George Butterworth’s music, particularly his settings of A.E....
...Andrew Kennedy and Roderick Williams shine as composer and poet, as do Quirjin de Lang’s Count and Sara Fulgoni’s Clairon. Matthew Best is a monotonous La Roche....
...capturing a sense of celestial wonder amid the pastoral lyricism, is splendidly brought to life by the excellent City of London Choir and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, with soprano Julia Doyle and baritone Roderick...
...Elgar The Fringes of the Fleet Roderick Williams Somm Bax/Ireland Concertino/Piano Concerto Mark Bebbington Somm These two CDs include first recordings of music by Elgar and Bax....
...Roderick Williams brought his customary intelligence to the Angel of the Agony. If this self-conscious Gerontius starts a trend, it will have been worth the effort....
...Roderick Williams (Argante) and Rachel Nicholls (Armida) were subdued, but Maki Mori made a charmingly open-hearted Almirena, winning over the audience with her nightingale timbres and deft decorations....
...Their poise is matched by Richard Stokes’s translation, by Roderick Williams, Joan Rogers and Faith Sherman (a sensational European debut) in the three roles, and by the orchestra and chorus under Edward...
...The excellent supporting cast was led by Neal Davies, Alasdair Elliot, Matthew Best, Andrew Kennedy and Roderick Williams, who is surely a Billy in the making....
...Roderick Williams made a credible Aeneas, Jennifer Johnston a far-from-caricatured Sorceress....
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