Elgar, Edward > Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]

Elgar: The Starlight Express / Sir Andrew Davis, Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Elin Thomas, soprano; Roderick Williams, baritone

2 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2012-11-13

Works: Edward Elgar: Starlight Express, Op. 78; The Starlight Express, suite for 2 voices & orchestra (arranged by Andrew Davis); Clive Carey: Songs (3) from "The Starlight Express", for voice & orchestra
Performers: Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Davis, Andrew
Ensemble: ; Scottish Chamber Orchestra

This fairytale melodrama was adapted from a book by Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland, for a West End theatre production staged during World War...continue...
Recording information: Studio 80a, BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, Lon (05/28/2012-05/30/2012); Usher Hall, Edinburgh (05/28/2012-05/30/2012); Studio 80a, BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Plac...continue...

Elgar: The Fringes of the Fleet

1 CD / SOMM / 2011-10-11

Works: John Ansell: Plymouth Hoe (A Nautical Overture), for orchestra; Windjammer Overture, for pops orchestra; Edward Elgar: The Fringes of the Fleet, pieces (4) for baritone solo, 3 baritones & orchestra;...
Performers: Lester, Nicholas; Meikle, Laurence; Rock, Duncan; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Higgins, Tom

The major work on this recording is Elgar's The Fringes of the Fleet, here receiving its first fully professional orchestral recording in 92 years....continue...
Recording information: All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak, London NW3 (05/09/2009/05/10/2009)....continue...

Elgar: Sea Pictures; Pageant of Empire

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2010-05-11

Works: Edward Elgar: Pageant of Empire, songs (8) for voice (or chorus) & orchestra; The Pipes of Pan, song for voice & piano; Op. 60; Sea Pictures, Op. 37; Ivor Gurney: Lights out; Michael Hurd: Shore Leav...
Performers: Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Yates, Martin

Listening to Elgar's beloved Sea Pictures sung by a male voice will be an eye-opening experience for all Elgarians, making one wonder why it had...continue...
Recording information: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford (2009-10-06_2009-10-07&2009-)....continue...

John Ireland: Orchestral Songs and Miniatures

1 CD / Dutton Laboratories / 2010-05-11

Works: Peter Andrew Tranchell: Festive Overture, for orchestra; Herbert Murrill: Country Dances, for orchestra; Walter Collins: Prelude to Ecstasy, for orchestra; Lionel Sainsbury: Allegro risoluto, for str...
Performers: Mutter, Charles; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Wilson, John; Sutherland, Gavin; Murphy, Paul; Yates, Martin

Dutton's survey of works for voice and orchestra by John Ireland, including the last two unrecorded songs orchestrated by Ireland himself and sung here by...continue...

Elgar: The Apostles / Cooke, Philharmonia Orchestra, et al

2 CD / Quartz Records / 2006-05-09

Works: Edward Elgar: The Apostles, Op. 49
Performers: Campbell, Colin; Leese, Anna; Poole, Louise; Rice, Robert W.; Staples, Andrew; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Cooke, Richard; Flood, David
Ensemble: Canterbury Choral Society

A rare and long-awaited new recording of Elgar's greatest and most important choral works. It is the only version recorded in a cathedral, as Elgar...continue...