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Wien

23 Dez 2016

Auf, preiset die Tage: Weihnachtsoratorium im Wiener Konzerthaus

Von Katharina Hogrefe

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Utrecht

Williams and Cargill shine in The Dream of Gerontius with Canellakis and the Netherlands RPO

Von Clare Varney, 13 Juni 2025

British vocal talent adds some very British glamour to the closing Avrotros Friday concert featuring Elgar's most famous oratorio.

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Utrecht

15 Jun 2025

Williams and Cargill shine in The Dream of Gerontius

Von Clare Varney

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High Wycombe

Three card trick: staging, direction and singing compel in Garsington’s Queen of Spades

Von Roy Westbrook, 29 Mai 2025

Jack Furness directs a terrific new Queen of Spades at Garsington – haunting and harrowing.

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High Wycombe

30 Mai 2025

Three card trick: compelling new Queen of Spades at Garsington

Von Roy Westbrook

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Flight of Icarus: perception-altering Shostakovich from Serebrennikov and Petrenko

Von Mark Pullinger, 27 April 2025

As part of the Southbank Centre's Multitudes festival, Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony is given a stunning visual direction by Kirill Serebrennikov to match the RPO's gripping playing.

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London

27 Apr 2025

Perception-altering Shostakovich from Serebrennikov and Petrenko

Von Mark Pullinger

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Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform moving Fauré

Von David Smythe, 27 Februar 2025

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform Fauré moving Requiem and Vaughan Williams Mystical Songs with the SCO Chorus and Roderick Williams.

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Edinburgh

28 Feb 2025

Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform moving Fauré

Von David Smythe

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Philadelphia

Bumpy love songs from Roderick Williams and Julius Drake at PCMS

Von Cameron Kelsall, 12 Februar 2025

A fully produced performance of Brahms' Die schӧne Magelone in Philadelphia, complete with on-stage narrator and bespoke drawings, proved less than the sum of its parts.

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Philadelphia

13 Feb 2025

Bumpy love songs from Roderick Williams and Julius Drake at PCMS

Von Cameron Kelsall

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Sakari Oramo and spellbinding soloists in a memorable Dream of Gerontius

Von Mark Valencia, 13 Dezember 2024

A solo trio of David Butt Philip, Dame Sarah Connolly and Roderick Williams draw on extensive stage experience to inhabit their roles in a naturally assured, vividly communicative fashion.

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London

16 Dez 2024

A memorable Dream of Gerontius from the BBCSO and Sakari Oramo

Von Mark Valencia

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An outstanding Elijah from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanychev

Von David Smythe, 09 Mai 2024

An outstanding Elijah from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus with Maxim Emelyanychev, headed up by Roderick Williams, with Carolyn Sampson, Rowan Pierce, Anna Stéphany and Thomas Walker.

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Edinburgh

10 Mai 2024

An outstanding Elijah from SCO and Maxim Emelyanychev

Von David Smythe

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Let there be light: UK premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Fiat Lux at the Barbican

Von David Truslove, 15 März 2024

A thoughtfully conceived and well-executed BBCSO programme, if not gaining more than the sum of its respective parts.

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London

18 Mär 2024

Let there be light: UK premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Fiat Lux

Von David Truslove

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Cardiff

Welsh National Opera stages Death in Venice for the first time... and it’s a triumph

Von Mark Valencia, 07 März 2024

Olivia Fuchs solves the problems of Britten's thorny opera in a brilliant new production that hits the heights, featuring Mark Le Brocq as earthbound scholar, Gustav von Aschenbach.

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Cardiff

09 Mär 2024

WNO stages Death in Venice for the first time and it’s a triumph

Von Mark Valencia

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More than cribs and tinsel: MacMillan’s dramatic Christmas Oratorio receives Scottish premiere

Von David Smythe, 24 November 2023

The composer conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus with Roderick Williams and Rhian Lois in Edinburgh's Usher Hall.

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Edinburgh

26 Nov 2023

More than cribs and tinsel: MacMillan’s dramatic Christmas Oratorio

Von David Smythe

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Liverpool

A superb Child of Our Time in Liverpool

Von Peter Connors, 24 Juni 2023

Soloists, choir and orchestra combine under Martyn Brabbins to create a powerful performance of Tippett's secular oratorio.

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Liverpool

25 Jun 2023

A superb Child of Our Time in Liverpool

Von Peter Connors

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Snape

Sally Beamish song cycle lights up Sinfonia of London's Aldeburgh Festival debut

Von Roy Westbrook, 17 Juni 2023

A programme of orchestral showpieces are given the John Wilson treatment, although Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances disappoints.

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Snape

18 Jun 2023

Sally Beamish lights up Sinfonia of London's Aldeburgh Festival debut

Von Roy Westbrook

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A double act: Roderick Williams delivers Mahler two ways at Wigmore Hall

Von Alexander Hall, 19 November 2022

Robert and Clara were not the only two-composer family. So were Alma and Gustav. The Nash Ensemble's latest programme highlights Beethoven and the Romantics.

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London

20 Nov 2022

A double act: Roderick Williams delivers Mahler two ways

Von Alexander Hall

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A magnificent Sea Symphony from the Bach Choir and David Hill

Von David Truslove, 17 November 2022

A memorable evening of superb music-making at the Royal Festival Hall, illuminating two well-known Vaughan Williams scores and shining a light on a seldom performed rarity.

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London

21 Nov 2022

A magnificent Sea Symphony from the Bach Choir

Von David Truslove

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Transcendent programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth

Von Roy Westbrook, 10 August 2022

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth were heaven-storming in Prom 33, offering celestial visions from Strauss and Holst.

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London

11 Aug 2022

Transcendent programme from the BBCSO and Ryan Wigglesworth

Von Roy Westbrook

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Roderick Williams captures the passion of youth with energetic immediacy at Kings Place

Von Nick Boston, 05 Mai 2022

The baritone explores the extremes of youthful emotion in a varied programme of song with pianist Paul Cibis in the Voices Unwrapped season.

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London

06 Mai 2022

Roderick Williams captures the passion of youth at Kings Place

Von Nick Boston

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Manchester

Premier League Vaughan Williams from The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder

Von Rohan Shotton, 30 April 2022

Memorable performances of Vaughan Williams' darkest and brightest symphonies at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

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Manchester

03 Mai 2022

Premier League Vaughan Williams from The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder

Von Rohan Shotton

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Biblical inspirations for Edward Gardner and the LPO

Von Alexander Hall, 02 April 2022

The constituent parts made up a contrasting and stimulating whole: works by Lili Boulanger, Messiaen and Brahms, united by biblical inspiration. Edward Gardner marshalled the collective London Philharmonic forces.

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London

03 Apr 2022

Biblical inspirations for Edward Gardner and the LPO

Von Alexander Hall

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New York City

Michel van der Aa's Upload questions the meaning of life... and of opera

Von Kurt Gottschalk, 22 März 2022

Does opera have room for film? And live video? Multiple screens and advertorials? And allusions to onscreen identity and cyber-immortality?

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New York City

24 Mär 2022

Upload questions the meaning of life... and of opera

Von Kurt Gottschalk

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Liverpool

Roderick Williams’ emotional Rückert-Lieder in Liverpool

Von Leighton Jones, 10 März 2022

In a rather mixed and unconventional programme, Roderick Williams and Amarins Wierdsman provide the highlights of a programme of variable success in Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall.

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Liverpool

12 Mär 2022

Roderick Williams’ emotional Rückert-Lieder in Liverpool

Von Leighton Jones

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Haydn's Creation and the LSO sing “Happy Birthday” to the Barbican

Von Roy Westbrook, 03 März 2022

It is rare for the LSO to take a literal and metaphorical back seat at one of their own concerts, but they supplied every instrumental need in Haydn's joyous oratorio.

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London

04 Mär 2022

Haydn's Creation and the LSO sing “Happy Birthday” to the Barbican

Von Roy Westbrook

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Brussels

Un Requiem en lumière pour Kristiina Poska à Bozar

Von Valentin Gautron Lavarone, 15 Februar 2022

Des tourments d'Adam aux chemins de la rédemption, l'Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir et le Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen ont donné un programme parfois trop lisse mais toujours d'une grande beauté.

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Brussels

17 Feb 2022

Un Requiem en lumière pour Kristiina Poska à Bozar

Von Valentin Gautron Lavarone

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Worthy to sit beside Bach? Elder and the LPO play Sir James MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio

Von David Karlin, 04 Dezember 2021

The LPO and London Philharmonic Choir are on outstanding form for a new major choral work to tell the Christmas story.

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London

05 Dez 2021

Worthy to sit beside Bach? MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio

Von David Karlin

Manchester

Tears for transience: Roderick Williams sings Butterworth with The Hallé

Von Roy Westbrook, 11 Dezember 2020

Its theme of the passing of everything from cherry blossom to opera houses made this a programme for the artistic perils of our time.

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Manchester

11 Dez 2020

Tears for transience: Roderick Williams sings Butterworth

Von Roy Westbrook

In the round: Roderick Williams sings and directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Von Stephen Pritchard, 20 Oktober 2020

Handel’s Italian cantata Apollo and Daphne is enjoying a Covid wave, perfect as it is for socially-distanced singing.

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London

21 Okt 2020

In the round: Roderick Williams sings and directs the OAE

Von Stephen Pritchard

Oxford

In the footsteps of Hafez: exploring Persian poetry at Oxford Lieder

Von Mark Pullinger, 11 Oktober 2020

A deep-dive into the world of 14th-century Persian poet, Hafez, and his influence on song across the centuries.

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Oxford

11 Okt 2020

In the footsteps of Hafez: exploring Persian poetry at Oxford Lieder

Von Mark Pullinger

Pulling the heart strings: Madam Butterfly returns to ENO

Von Dominic Lowe, 26 Februar 2020

Anthony Minghella's classic production of Madam Butterfly makes a welcome return with a sensational role debut by Natalya Romaniw as Cio-Cio-San.

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London

28 Feb 2020

Pulling the heart strings: Madam Butterfly returns to ENO

Von Dominic Lowe

True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera

Von Matthew Rye, 30 November 2019

A psychologically penetrating semi-staging of Britten’s Peter Grimes from leading soloists, the Bergen Philharmonic and its chief conductor Ed Gardner laid bare the opera’s music and drama.

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London

01 Dez 2019

True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera

Von Matthew Rye

Paris

Elias en quête de grandeur au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Von Philippe Ramin, 08 Oktober 2019

Grand spécialiste du baroque allemand, Masaaki Suzuki est très attentif à son Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment en petite forme. Robert Murray se distingue dans une distribution de qualité.

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Paris

11 Okt 2019

Elias en quête de grandeur au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Von Philippe Ramin

Aix-en-Provence

Parallel symmetries and random synchronicities: Michel van der Aa’s Blank Out at Festival d’Aix

Von Pwyll ap Sion, 13 Juli 2019

In his 2016 opera Blank Out, Dutch composer Michel van der Aa has managed to create a new kind of operatic ‘reality’ that resonates powerfully with today’s Zeitgeist. Highly recommended.

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Aix-en-Provence

14 Jul 2019

Parallel symmetries and random synchronicities at Festival d’Aix

Von Pwyll ap Sion

Star-studded, searing Bach at the Royal Festival Hall

Von Benjamin Poore, 02 April 2019

Challenging and vivid Bach in the first UK showing of Peter Sellars' staging of Bach's great liturgical masterpiece.

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London

03 Apr 2019

Star-studded, searing Bach at the Royal Festival Hall

Von Benjamin Poore

Britten Sinfonia's electric Messiah: Look, no hands!

Von Stephen Pritchard, 19 Dezember 2018

A conductorless performance of Handel's masterpiece lights up the Barbican.

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London

20 Dez 2018

Britten Sinfonia's electric Messiah: Look, no hands!

Von Stephen Pritchard

Inspiration eludes Kramer in Britten's War Requiem at English National Opera

Von Mark Valencia, 16 November 2018

The music’s explosions of volume have an open-throated magnificence.

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London

18 Nov 2018

Inspiration eludes Kramer in Britten's War Requiem at ENO

Von Mark Valencia

Darkness and pain in Mark Padmore's St Matthew Passion

Von Benjamin Poore, 26 März 2018

A brooding and melancholy presentation of Bach’s masterpiece from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Mark Padmore.

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London

28 Mär 2018

Darkness and pain in Mark Padmore's St Matthew Passion

Von Benjamin Poore

Monteverdi on a doughnut: A drab Return of Ulysses fails to thrill the Roundhouse

Von David Karlin, 10 Januar 2018

A series of ill-advised staging choices leads to a disappointingly drab performance of Monteverdi's Homeric epic.

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London

11 Jan 2018

Monteverdi on a doughnut: Ulysses fails to thrill

Von David Karlin

Oundjian's Brahms disappoints, but Hadelich's Dvořák takes off in Edinburgh

Von Simon Thompson, 01 Dezember 2017

Hadelich dazzles, but Oundjian's Brahms is bland.

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Edinburgh

01 Dez 2017

Oundjian's Brahms disappoints in Edinburgh

Von Simon Thompson

To the field of blood: Sally Beamish's The Judas Passion

Von Benjamin Poore, 25 September 2017

Suffering, forgiveness, and natural brass in a brand new dramatic oratorio

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London

28 Sep 2017

To the field of blood: The Judas Passion

Von Benjamin Poore

Roderick Williams’ charming birdcatcher leads a spirited revival of The Magic Flute at Covent Garden

Von Mark Pullinger, 14 September 2017

In Thomas Guthrie’s revival of Sir David McVicar’s sober 2003 production of Mozart’s Singspiel, it was the pantomime elements of the show which registered strongly.

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London

15 Sep 2017

A spirited revival of The Magic Flute at Covent Garden

Von Mark Pullinger

Snape

Opera North sails in to the Aldeburgh Festival with a buoyant revival of Billy Budd

Von Mark Valencia, 24 Juni 2017

At the opera’s great climaxes Suffolk’s famous wood-and-brick building could barely contain it.

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Snape

25 Jun 2017

A buoyant revival of Billy Budd

Von Mark Valencia

Rome

Sir Antonio Pappano dirige une grandiose Passion selon saint Jean à l’Auditorium Parco della Musica

Von Emma Granier, 13 April 2017

L'orchestre et le chœur de santa Cecilia ont marqué la fin de la Semaine Sainte d'un grand moment de musique et de spiritualité avec ce bel hommage au Cantor de Leipzig.

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Rome

18 Apr 2017

Grandiose "Passion selon saint Jean" à Rome

Von Emma Granier

Birmingham

John Wilson and the CBSO present British classics with a difference

Von Hedy Mühleck, 01 März 2017

A pleasant afternoon's entertainment with grand sweeps and some beautiful singing by Roderick Williams.

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Birmingham

02 Mär 2017

British Classics with a difference

Von Hedy Mühleck

Glasgow

Food for thought in Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s The Last Supper

Von David Smythe, 14 Januar 2017

An excellent performance of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s The Last Supper receiving its Scottish première, with Roderick Williams and Susan Bickley heading a luxury cast.

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Glasgow

15 Jan 2017

Food for thought: Birtwistle’s The Last Supper

Von David Smythe

Lyon

Admirable optimisme berlinois : le RIAS Kammerchor et le Freiburger Barockorchester rayonnent de joie dans le Weihnachtsoratorium de Bach

Von Beate Langenbruch, 20 Dezember 2016

Chanter parce qu’on croit à la liberté et qu’on veut affirmer sa valeur : le lendemain de l’attentat sur un marché de Noël à Berlin, le RIAS Kammerchor et le Freiburger Barockorchester souls la direction de Hans-Christoph Rademann ont dédié un magnifique concert à la mémoire des victimes.

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Lyon

24 Dez 2016

Le RIAS Kammerchor et le Freiburger Barockorchester rayonnent de joie à Lyon

Von Beate Langenbruch

Leeds

Opera North's intensely dramatic Billy Budd in Leeds

Von Richard Wilcocks, 18 Oktober 2016

Opera North's production of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, directed by Orpha Phelan, is a tense psychological drama which puts the emphasis on issues of democracy and attitudes to dictatorship.

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Leeds

19 Okt 2016

Opera North's intensely dramatic Billy Budd

Von Richard Wilcocks

Prom 3: The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge revitalises Fauré’s Requiem

Von Kathryn Wareham, 17 Juli 2016

The legendary Kings College Choir, Cambridge, conducted by their very own Stephen Cleobury, was accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on period instruments at the Royal Albert Hall.

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