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...Hushed sections for the two soloists, Mary Bevan and Roderick Williams, and chorale incantations offer intermittent balm, but Fiat Lux leaves a lingering feeling that it is overweighted towards showing off...
...For Roderick Williams, baritone of inimitable good sense and evident sangfroid, the production of Gerald Barry’s opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2002 comes top of the...
...As the seven figures luring Aschenbach to his death, Roderick Williams might project more strongly, but he makes each of his roles vividly distinctive, flamboyant as the Leader of the Players, wryly amusing...
...This is where Francis (played by Aaron Pierre as an adult) and Michael (Lamar Johnson) grow up in a small apartment with their mother Ruth (Marsha Stephanie Blake), a nurse of Jamaican origin....
...This single disc offers an hour of the music in a suite made by Hans Sørensen, focusing exclusively on Cathy and Heathcliff, well sung by Keri Fuge and Roderick Williams....
...A bonus comes in the form of two new pieces, commissioned from James MacMillan and Roderick Williams, tributes in the Tudor manner to Tom and Will. ★★★★☆ ‘Tom and Will’ is released by Signum Classics...
...Williams, basking in the regal glow of his appearance at the coronation....
...Long-rumoured to be in the running to replace the late Virgil Abloh at Louis Vuitton, she has hardly been held up by losing out on the gig to Pharrell Williams....
...In this performance, soprano Lucy Crowe and baritone Roderick Williams are the excellent soloists and Mark Elder conducts the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra....
...Jameson was paired with Roderick Williams, and in the video they sing together, Williams in operatic flow, Jameson with power and purpose....
...Soprano soloist Lucy Crowe floated ineffably angelic top notes and baritone Roderick Williams touched the heart with his solo from Milton....
...Roderick Williams sang the Schubert with impeccable clarity, but we really needed the texts for the choral settings to get full value from Wallen’s tantalisingly intriguing parallel numbers....
...Three of the composers are from the UK — Ken Burton, Roderick Williams and Smith himself — and three from the US — Melissa Dunphy, Jocelyn Hagen and Taylor Scott Davis....
...Roderick Williams presents ‘A Singer’s Guide to Britain’ on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds from August 7 Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...“It is what it is” was among the numerous idiomatic expressions that William Safire covered in his “On Language” column in The New York Times....
...That is a significant oversight and one that Roderick Floud sets out to put right....
...Walk south down Roderick Road, then turn right on to Mansfield Road, and cross to the other side at the next lights, and continue as it becomes Fleet Road....
...Roderick Kramer, professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford Business School, describes the trigger for paranoia as unexpected events — such as a merger or redundancies....
...The International Wine Challenge (IWC), owned by William Reed Business Media, is the main rival of the DWWA, although most of their judges are based in Britain whereas wine tasters fly in from all over the...
...First-rate voices are onboard, including Anna Dennis, Mhairi Lawson, Jeremy Budd, Roderick Williams and Ashley Riches....
...A few songs have a tossed-off feel to them, like her airy collaboration with Kendrick Lamar on “Nile”, while the snatches of film dialogue disrupt the flow of the music....
...Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, by Roderick Beaton, Allen Lane, RRP£30/University of Chicago Press, RRP$35 Beaton’s carefully balanced narrative history sets Greece’s recent troubles in the context...
...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...
...Baritone Roderick Williams is a model of unexaggerated compassion....
...It was a step too far: though the orchestral writing was vivid, the famous words seemed to lose their expressive power when set to music, however nobly they were intoned by baritone Roderick Williams....
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