Roderick Williams

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.

Originally published in the New Horizons collection Cantica Nova, this expansive Advent motet creates a unique sound world through unusual harmonic inflections, striking spatial effects, unmeasured no...

Now winter nights des britischen Komponisten und Bariton Roderick Williams basiert auf einem bewegenden Gedicht von Thomas Campion, welches die kindliche Vorfreude auf das Weihnachtsfest beschreibt, d...

Queen Elizabeth's Winchester Carol, also known as ‘The Royal Carol' uses a poem by King Henry VIII and equates the ever-green holly and ivy with the constancy of love. Composed for unaccompanied SATB...

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...

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...

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...

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'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).