Williams Synthia

Multi-part music for the same instrument, dating back to Elizabethan consorts of viols, remains outside the typical orchestral repertoire nowadays, but as ever, SOMM remains true to it's stellar reputation for presenting rare and singular releases. Habanera, Music for Eight Cellos and Voice is a joyous recording that grew out of a collaboration between baritone Roderick Williams and cellist Joely Koos, joint Artistic Directors at the 2023 Endellion Summer Music Festival.

"Gladiator II" by Oscar-winning director Ridley Scott is the long-awaited sequel to an epic saga of power, intrigue and revenge in ancient Rome.

Handel’s arrival in Rome seems to have had a miraculous influence on his development as a composer.

The album features the original songs from the film written and performed by the project’s subject Pharrelll Williams, including the original title track (feat. Princess Anne High School Fabulous Marching Cavaliers).

SOMM Recordings announces an important new recording of two classic English song cycles by Sir Arthur Somervell – Maud and A Shropshire Lad – from the acclaimed partnership of baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Susie Allan.

Walt Disney Record is set to release the soundtrack to the live-action version of “Mulan”, on September 4th, which is the same day as the film is coming to Disney+. The album features original music composed by Harry Gregson-Williams who has previously worked on “The Chronicles of Narnia”, “Shrek” and “The Martian”. It also includes two songs by Christina Aguilera, a new version of “Reflection”, which was originally made for the animated movie and a brand new song, “Loyal Brave True”.

Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside complete their survey of Schubert’s song cycles with this recording of Winterreise. Composed in the late 1820s, towards the end of Schubert’s tragically short life, Winterreise (Winter Journey) is a setting of twenty-four poems by Wilhelm Müller and describes a traveller leaving the town which was the home of the object of his unrequited love, to embark on a long journey, through a chill, wintry landscape, which ends in near-suicidal despair.

Folk Songs from the Eastern Counties is is the third in a series of four albums recording all 81 of the folk songs in English that Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged for voice and piano or violin. 57 of the 81 songs have not previously been recorded in these arrangements.