Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn – Part of the Bradfield Festival of Music 2025

‘Celebrating folk and traditional songs inspired by British poets’

From Opera to Recital, Baroque to World Premieres, Roderick Williams OBE is in constant demand worldwide for his rich and nuanced baritone voice and for commissioned compositions. In addition to a wonderful voice, he has a relaxed and engaging presence which reaches out to the audience and we are delighted to have him perform in Bradfield.

The Grammy award winning Christopher Glynn has accompanied Roderick Williams on numerous occasions in live performance and in recordings. Christopher has a sensitive style which goes hand in hand with Roderick’s rich and subtly nuanced baritone voice. Christopher is also artistic director of the Ryedale Festival and is committed to the important role that small music festivals have.

Together they will perform a programme of works by English, Scottish and Irish poets set to music by British and Irish composers as well as traditional folk songs.

The programme will include
John Ireland: Summer Schemes (Thomas Hardy), We’ll to the woods no more (A E Housman), Sea Fever (John Masefield), The Vagabond (John Masefield))
Rebecca Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens (W B Yeats), The Cloths of Heaven (W B Yeats), The Seal Man (John Masefield)
Ina Boyle: A Song of Enchantment (Walter de la Mare
Joan Trimble: Green Rain (Mary Webb), My grief on the sea (from the Irish) (Douglas Hyde)
Charles Wood: I’d roam the world over with you (anon.)
Ivor Gurney: The Salley Gardens (WB Yeats)
Michael Head: Tewkesbury Road (John Masefield)
Freya Waley-Cohen: The Moon, the Moss and the Mushrooms (William and Dorothy Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Songs of Travel (Robert Louis Stevenson), The Vagabond

(photo Theo Williams and Benjamin Ealovega)

Further details about the concert programme and the Festival are on the Festival Website