Roderick Williams - La Belle Dame - Import CD

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Roderick Williams

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La Belle Dame Singing English Romanticism at the End of the 19th Century Includes Quilter:The Faithless Shepherdess/ Dilius:Suite No.1 for small orchestra Holst:Ornulf's Drapa/ Norman O'Neill: La Belle Dame sans Merci/ Cyril Scott:The Ballad of Fair Helen of Kirkconnel/ Havergal Bryan: The Legend/ Campbell Mackenzie: Columba All world premiere recordings Performers BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andrews (conductor), Roderick Williams (Baritone), Rupert Marshall-Luck (Violin) The English Music Festival's own label, EM Records, has been releasing a series of unknown and new works from modern and contemporary Britain.The new album from EM Records, which has been released with a commitment to include at least one world premiere recording, is a collection of world premiere recordings by O'Neill, Holst, Dilius, Quilter, McKenzie, and Bryan on the theme of late 19th century British Romanticism. Holst's 1898 composition for baritone and orchestra, "Ornulf's Drapa" (poem taken from Ibsen's "The Vikings of Helgeland"), was recorded by Em Marshall-Ruck (EM Records' label director, EMF's managing and Director of EM Records, Managing and Artistic Director of EMF, and Rupert's wife) obtained the original score from the British Library, and Bruno Bauer edited it. The Holst Society of Great Britain also provided a generous grant to make the world premiere recording possible. (Tokyo M-Plus)