Buxton Orr: Songs Roderick Williams and a predominantly tonal idiom

and a predominantly tonal idiom spiked with unexpected dissonances

For some time before the collaboration some of us had been faithful fans of his

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

[Venables'] Agnus Dei holds us in the grip of suppressed passion

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Buxton Orr: Songs Roderick Williams and a predominantly tonal idiomSUMMARY 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.