Great to hear my ancestors music brought to life. Glad that Charles Dibdin hasn’t been forgotten over time.

Well done lads. Better than I expected.Very clear diction. I could hear every word.

A beautifully performed duet of silky baritone and gentle accompaniment. A joy to hear!

Excellent although I may be biased. He was my music teacher at school until he quit to go pro.

@chelawrence2285

3 жыл бұрын

You are not biased. Excellent is a passive way of describing this performance. I feel honoured to be able to listen to it.

Lovely. My shelves are packed with Williams's superb CDs of British song: Finzi, Butterworth, Britten & much more. To see him is immensely instructive, the pleasure he takes in the music palpable & his rock-solid vocal technique impressive. This is NOT a public recital, but a radio broadcast with no audience: his gestures are exactly the kind that singers make in a recording session to help them get their best vocal results, not what they use on the concert platform. Thanks so much for the post!

My father used to sing this . Lovely to be reminded of my dear dad .

Absolutely wonderful

I, age 2 months, was just born. However, I am eternally appreciative of the nuance of Williams's warm baritone. Brilliant!

Most will have come across this through the last night of the Proms, where the promenaders make great show of wiping eyes with handkerchiefs. That said, it is a genuinely moving, if , to our sometimes cynical tastes, too sentimental, song, and it is marvellous to hear it performed so sensitively here.

I don't know how he gets through it without howling. I can't , and I'm just listening. Thank you Mr Williams for a wonderful live performance .( Ad Mr Middleton) A great balm to the soul in this period of cynical grifting heartless blighters.

Last Night of the Proms brought me here!

@JenniferUpton_2

9 жыл бұрын

Me two !

..love this, and please to hear your voice again at the coronation.

I, age 7, am doing my grade 3 exam. Thank you very much for posting the inspiring singing of Tom Bowling. The singing and the piano playing are very expressive, smooth.very helpful. Brilliant!

@smuecke

5 жыл бұрын

I, age 2 and a half, am currently doing my PhD. I, too, am deeply grateful for such profound beauty being shared on KZread. I am delighted to join your noble fellowship of pre-denarian classical music elitists!

@fleosflanacek

4 жыл бұрын

smuecke lmfao 😂

Wonderful performance. I really love to see a singer enjoying the accompaniment as much as the singing. Great stuff.

I, in utero, am yet to be born. I am very grateful to the person who uploaded this fine recording of such a moving melody. It had me in floods of tears, but they were rather hard to discern due to my current environment. Yours sincerely, (Yet to be named) Aged -1 month.

Beautiful!

Brilliant! Just seen the Charles Dibdin memorial in Camden and remembered the song

Lovely singing.

I heard RW at this years (2017) Buxton Festival singing Schubert's Die Schone Mullein. he gave a short and interesting introduction to preparing the 3 Schubert cycles (with more on his blog). It becomes clear, on reading and listening to him describe this process, that the refined performance which we heard in Buxton this year was the result of hard work, not least the memorising of the piece. In fact, in some ways, this commentary about memory is one of the most interesting aspects of his preparation. I'm sure the scientists who work in the area of memory would be equally interested. His singing of Schubert is very fine!

Marvellous song and a good performance

@gillianbrown9313

Жыл бұрын

My husband was a keen sailor and ex-Navy and a lovely man.We played this at his funeral.

Please can Roderick Williams sing this at the Budleigh Salterton Music Festival in July !

Anyone else listening to this doing the abrsm grade 3 piano exam 😂

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this is a low voice version (baritone) down a minor 3rd from the original..... oddly enough the same as the cello version!! - anyone know how to find the piano score in the lower key - thanks!!

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Not Too fast at all .How do you know how good he thinks he is. It,s good to hear this song sung by a baritone.

Nice to hear this songs, and they are well sung. I do think these 'singers gestures' are usually more a sign of a lack of (momentary) inner 'movement' then a typical facet of a recording session. It is often of way of moving oneself by external means instead of inner means such as imagination, emotion, concentration etc... Although external means can trigger inner ones, continued use often detracts from the end result in my opinion because it ultimately siphons energy from the voice. There are many singers that don't make these gestures at all and sing great.

@glynnwright1699

6 жыл бұрын

RW doesn't make these gestures when I have seen him front of an audience.

Lovely expression, but I keep hearing slight intonation problems.

It’s amazing how Britten can take any beautiful piece of music,,,,,,,,,,,and ruin it,,,,the big ponce.

@thesaucegroup1877

2 жыл бұрын

Stfu no one cares what you think

@thetruth156real3

2 жыл бұрын

@@thesaucegroup1877 I think by you replying you’ve just contradicted your very statement. 😂😂

@mavisemberson8737

2 жыл бұрын

Please enlighten us! ;-0

@thetruth156real3

2 жыл бұрын

@@mavisemberson8737 I have.