Roderick Williams

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...

Das 6-minütige a-cappella-Werk für SATB (divisi) ist eine Vertonung des lateinischen Textes 'O Rex Gentium', eines der sieben antiken Advents-Antiphonen ('O-Antiphonen'). Roderick Williams ist einer d...

Der 8-minütige Chorsatz über einen Text aus dem Buch Jesaja ist für SATB (divisi) a cappella mit umfangreichem Alt-Solo und optionalem Bariton-Solo. Die getragene besinnliche Komposition enthält Absch...

SATB unaccompanied Let nothing trouble you is a striking and atmospheric setting of a prayer by the Spanish mystic, St Teresa of Ávila. This work is both comforting and meditative, reflecting the mood...

The star has come is an illustrative and imaginative setting of a poem by Robert Seatter. In response to the evocative text, Williams uses portamenti techniques to create musical imagery, and explores...

The star has come is an illustrative and imaginative setting of a poem by Robert Seatter. In response to the evocative text, Williams uses portamenti techniques to create musical imagery, and explores...

Offprinted from the collection "Spirituals for Choirs".

Let nothing trouble you is a striking and atmospheric setting of a prayer by the Spanish mystic, St Teresa of Ávila. Commissioned by The Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, this...

Composed for unaccompanied SSATB with an English text from the Book of Common Prayer. This five-minute anthem was written for the UK's Thomas Tallis Society, having in mind Tallis's famous work for 5...

This beautiful 5-minute piece takes William Byrd's famous motet and re-imagines it for 3 unaccompanied SATB choirs, with opportunity to space the choirs at a distance from each other.

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).

A setting for unaccompanied SATB choir with divisi of George Herbert's poem. The richly textured homophonic piece ends with a beautiful ostinato. Duration 4'30'

Du var vinden (You were the wind) by Roderick Williams is a four-minute setting for unaccompanied SATB choir (with divisi) of a short, thought-provoking poem by Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge, using the...

Spring Memories by Roderick Williams is a four-minute adaptation for unaccompanied SATB voices with divisi of Edvard Grieg's well-known and beautiful piano work Til Våren (from the Lyric Pieces, Book...

Exceeding Glad was commissioned explicitly to reflect my personal experience of the Coronation of King Charles III in May 2023. I was extremely fortunate in being asked to perform at the event as well...

While still a university student, I discovered a disc of Russian Orthodox Music as recorded by the Tallis Scholars. It made a great impression on me and I was especially struck by a beautiful double c...

Inviolata is an act of homage set on top of another act of homage. When the motet by Josquin des Pres (c. 1450 – 1521) first appeared in print around 1519, he set the bar high for all composers (and 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.

A 5-minute uplifting piece for SATB and piano that uses the ancient latin hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary. The verses alternate between full choir and solo or duet passages, accompanied by lush, rom...

God so loved the world by Roderick Williams is an anthem for SATB choir (with divisi), organ and Alto saxophone, using the same biblical text (John 3:16) which is famously used by John Stainer in his...

Written for the inauguration of the organ in Peterhouse, Cambridge, and featuring a prominent organ part, this 8.5-minute work for choir and organ sets, in Latin, three biblical stories featuring ange...

The title Sing Joyfully was actually suggested to me by one of its commissioners from the Saffron Walden Choral Society, as a working title for a piece of music that would eventually explore the pleas...

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...

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...