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Five Mystical Songs CD Review – BBC Music Magazine

For many listeners the main attraction will be baritone Roderick Williams’s take on Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs, in a new version for organ accompaniment by Martin Ford. Williams is in sovereign form, noble and resonant in the opening ‘Easter’, plangent and intimate in ‘I Got Me Flowers’. In ‘The […]

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Five Mystical Songs CD Review – Roderick Williams

I’ve always enjoyed singing alongside the Vasari Singers ever since I was part of the team when they won BBC Choir of the Year. Friends that I made in the choir at that time, when I was just starting out on the London singing scene in the early 1990s, have […]

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Five Mystical Songs CD Review – MusicWeb International

I was delighted to receive this new CD from the Vasari Singers because I’ve admired a good number of their releases in the past. Though their recorded repertoire is wide, they’ve consistently demonstrated a propensity for British music, as is the case here. There are some very welcome selections in […]

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[VIDEO] 40th birthday video – Live with me and be my love (George Shearing)

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[VIDEO] Heaven full of Stars CD Livestream Launch event

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[VIDEO] Philip Stopford Ave Maria film

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[VIDEO] arr. Ben Parry: Jingle Bells (with wine!)

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[VIDEO] Carol medley arr. Jonathan Rathbone

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[VIDEO] Bob Chilcott: I sing of a maiden

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[VIDEO] Helena Paish interview and new commissioned carol

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