Roderick Williams

This collaboration from Mokale Koapeng and Roderick Williams expresses ideas of peace and grief. Characterized by simple harmonic structure and text with opportunities for improvisation with the struc...

From the collection For Him all Stars, 'A Catch by the Hearth' is a lively folk-influenced carol by Roderick Williams, scored for SSAA unaccompanied. Written in flexible metre, it features interweavin...

An energetic four-minute setting for SATB and piano of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, which begins 'I heard the bells on Christmas Day'. Roderick Williams composed the piece in 2014 as the Financi...

O Guiding Night is a colourful and evocative setting of the text 'The Dark Night' by 16th-century Spanish mystic/poet St John of the Cross. Williams's setting really gets to the heart of the words, co...

To Music is a jubilant anthem set to a poem by Robert Herrick ('To Music - A Song'). Commissioned by the BBC to mark Stephen Cleobury's 60th birthday celebrations in 2009, the work perfectly captures...

Dieses sanft fließende 3-minütige Arrangement von Roderick Williams für SATB (divisi) mit Klavierbegleitung fängt meisterhaft die Schönheit des berühmten traditionellen Liebesliedes der Hebriden ein....

Es war mir eine besondere Freude und Ehre, eingeladen worden zu sein, ein neues Gottesdienststück für den Chor der Westminster Abbey zu komponieren, mit dem ich bereits mehrfach gesungen habe, unter a...

Archer's setting of this popular Easter hymn by G. R. Woodward is sparkling with energy, combining the exuberant seventeenth-century Dutch melody with short organ interjections. An exciting addition t...

This bright, up-tempo arrangement combines a funky piano part with walking pizzicato bass, a strong tune, scat vocal lines, and swing-band style vocal harmonies to make an exhilarating show-stopper.

Intricate counterpoint and a continuo-style bassline bring a medieval flavour to Williams' arrangement of this much-loved carol. The gentle vocal lines build in texture throughout, with optional suppo...

Intricate counterpoint and a continuo-style bassline bring a medieval flavour to Williams' arrangement of this much-loved carol.

Intricate counterpoint and a continuo-style bassline bring a medieval flavour to Williams' arrangement of this much-loved carol. The gentle vocal lines build in texture throughout, with optional suppo...

Intricate counterpoint and a continuo-style bassline bring a medieval flavour to Williams' arrangement of this much-loved carol. The gentle vocal lines build in texture throughout, with optional suppo...

Roderick Williams’s ‘Exultate’ is an exuberant piece taking its text from the first 4 verses of Psalm 81 for SATB choir, soprano saxophone and percussion (4 tom-tom drums, or similar). Parts for Sopra...

Roderick Williams' Exultate ist ein peppiges Stück für Chor SATB, Sopran-Saxofon und Schlagzeug (4 Tomtoms oder ähnliches) basierend auf den ersten 4 Versen aus dem 81. Psalm.