Baritone Roderick Williams is in constant demand in opera, recital, and concert in repertoire spanning the Baroque to world premieres. In 2016, his portrayal of Christus in J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion as staged by Peter Sellars received international acclaim. Williams is also a composer and arranger whose works have been commissioned by the BBC Singers, ORA, and Voces8. Roderick Williams returns to Chicago next month as soloist in Music of the Baroque’s presentation of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
Watch Roderick Williams performing selections from George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad below.
Playlist
Franz Schubert: “Aufenthalt” from Schwanenegesang
Roderick Williams, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano
Henry Purcell: “We blustering brethren of the skies” from King Arthur
Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh, conductor
Ivor Gurney: Black Stitchel Traditional Irish, arr. Benjamin Britten: The Salley Gardens Gerald Finzi: “It was a lover and his lass” from Let Us Garlands Bring
Roderick Williams, baritone
Susie Allen, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach: St John Passion
No. 24 “Eilt, ihr angefochtnen Seelen”
No. 32 “Mein teurer Heiland, lass dich fragen”
Roderick Williams, baritone
Polyphony
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor
Samuel Barber arr. Roderick Williams: Sure on This Shining Night
Roderick Williams, baritone
Coull Quartet
Roderick Williams: Ave Verum Corpus Re-imagined
ORA
Suzi Digby, director
Roderick Williams: Let Nothing Trouble You Daisy Walford, soprano
Archie Buchanan, tenor
Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir
Ralph Allwood, conductor
George Butterworth arr. Roderick Williams: A Shropshire Lad
III. Look not in my eyes
VI. Is my team ploughing?
Roderick Williams, baritone
Hallé Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder, conductor
