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Leon McCawley, Roderick Williams

Sean Rafferty talks to pianist Leon McCawley about his latest album of Haydn piano sonatas, and we have a home session from baritone Roderick Williams.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Carl Nielsen

    Saul og David (Act 2: Prelude)

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Carol Nielsen: Orchestral Music: DNSO, Dausgaard.
    • Dacapo.
  • Caroline Shaw

    and the swallow

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen.
    • ...and....
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 56 in D major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Leon McCawley.
    • Somm.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 31 in A-Flat Major H.16.46; 1st movement; Allegro moderato

    Performer: Leon McCawley.
    • Somm.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Folk Festival (The Gadfly)

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Simon Crawford‐Phillips. Music Arranger: Vadim Borisovsky.
    • Shostakovich: Music for viola and piano: Power/Crawford-Phillips.
    • Hyperion.
    • 15.
  • Pedro Rabassa

    Carol for the Birth of Christ

    Singer: Julia Doyle. Orchestra: Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla. Conductor: Enrico Onofri.
    • Passacaille.
  • Max Bruch

    Serenade in A minor, Op 75 (fourth movement - : Allegro energico e vivace)

    Performer: Jack Liebeck. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    How Fair This Spot Op.21 no.7

    Singer: Natalya Romaniw. Performer: Lada Valešová.
    • Arion: Voyage of a Slavic Soul.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 17.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 10 [1597 no.9]

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.
    • Signum.
  • Ian Venables

    The Song of the Severn, Op.43 (Laugh and be Merry)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Graham J Lloyd. Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.
    • The Song of the Seven.
    • Signum.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto [fragment] in D major BWV.1045

    Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Conductor: Bernhard Forck.
    • J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 218.
  • Maria Theresia von Paradis

    Sicilienne

    Music Arranger: Chris Hazell. Performer: Sheku Kanneh‐Mason. Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christopher Warren‐Green.
    • Decca.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Why do the nations so furiously rage together? (Messiah)

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Justin Doyle.
    • Handel: Messiah, HWV 56.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Robert Schumann

    Myrthen, Op. 25 No. 1: Widmung & 24. Du bist wie eine Blume

    Performer: Roderick Williams. Performer: Andrew West.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft, BWV 205: No. 3, Wie will ich lust

    Singer: Roderick Williams. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • Bach: The Secular Cantatas.
    • BIS.
    • 403.
  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Bachianas Brasileiras No.1, Introduction. Embolada

    Ensemble: Rondo Violoncello.
    • Rondo Violincello / Peter Buck.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 1.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor Op 13 (Pathetique): iii.Rondo

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Tomás Luis de Victoria

    Vidi speciosam

    Choir: The Queen’s Six.
    • Journeys to the New World.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 3.
  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Sarabande et rigaudon, Op.93 (Rigaudon)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
    • SAINT-SAENS: Volume 1.
    • CALA.
    • 6.

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  • Thu 19 Nov 2020 17:00

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