Buxton Orr: Songs Roderick Williams is a happy celebration of

is a happy celebration of that gift and of the enlarged museum's reopening in 2023

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But this is not dutiful excursion into the archive but a series of richly vibrant songs in strongly characterful and subtle performances from Spence

and a predominantly tonal idiom spiked with unexpected dissonances

and The King’s Service canticles beautifully fluid

Buxton Orr: Songs Roderick Williams is a happy celebration ofSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO When Nicky Spence was first shown the score to The Boy in the Train, the last of Buxton Orrs Songs of a Childhood, he was transported to the late 1980s his own childhood in Scotland. Something about Buxtons sense of humour, excitement and honesty resonated with me, Spence says, and fed my desire to discover more about his work. On contacting his widow, I was led to a treasure trove of unrecorded works for voice.