The Bride Quartet; Michael Dussek; Roderick Williams - Those Blue Remembered Hills

The celebrated baritone Roderick Williams joins the Bridge Quartet and acclaimed pianist Michael Dussek in the World Premi�re recording of Gurney's song-cycle 'The Western Playland', first performed at The English Music Festival in 2018. The disc also includes the first recording of the same composer's String Quartet in D minor of 1925 (a rare survivor among Gurney string quartets), as well as songs by Gurney and Howells (including the wonderful 'King David').

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

Before listening to this disc, I could not imagine anyone who could better capture the poignancy of that suffering, and the beauty which rises from it, and transcends it, than Roderick Williams. Having listened to Those Blue Remembered Hills, I do not think that Williams has done anything finer. - Opera Today