Llŷr Williams

2019 saw Williams returning to the Edinburgh Festival, as well as the Cowbridge festival where he is Artist-in-Residence, and the Gower Festival where he is a Patron, while in 2020 prior to lockdown he returned to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for a recreation of Beethoven’s 1808 Vienna Concert, and gave all-Beethoven recitals in Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as for the Philadelphia Chamber Music society in the US. In October 2020, Williams returned to Wigmore Hall for two streamed recitals, while in the same month he completed his Cardiff series ‘Pictures in Music’ at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; 2021 sees the start there of an all-Chopin series spanning two seasons.

Williams’ eclectic repertoire is reflected in his discography; November 2020 saw the release of an 8-disc box-set ‘A Schubert Journey’ on Signum records. His previous release, the 12-disc ‘Beethoven Unbound’ also on Signum Records, was BBC Music Magazine’s ‘Recording of the Month’ in August 2018. Other recordings by Williams include two solo albums for Signum, as well as William Mathias’ second Piano Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales on Welsh label Tŷ Cerdd.

A former BBC New Generation Artist and Borletti-Buitoni Trust award winner, Llŷr Williams was born in Pentrebychan, North Wales, and read music at The Queen’s College, Oxford before taking up a postgraduate scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and in 2017 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Wales. He is also currently Artist-in-Association at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

November 2020

• Bartok
  Piano Concerto No3
Beethoven
Concertos 1-5
Choral Fantasy
Berg
Chamber Concerto Op 8
Brahms
Piano Concerto No2 in B flat major Op83
Britten
Piano Concerto in D Major, Op 13
Carter
Dialogues for Piano and Orchestra
Chopin
Piano Concerto No1 in E minor, Op 11
Piano Concerto No2 in F minor, Op21
Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op16
Liszt
Piano Concerto No1 in E flat major
Mathias
Piano Concerto no 2, op 13
Piano Concerto no 3, op 40
Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No1 in G minor
Piano Concerto No2 in D minor
Concerto for Violin, Piano & Orchestra
Mozart
Piano Concerto No12 in A major, K414
Piano Concerto No14 in E flat major, K449
Piano Concerto No 17 in G major, K453
Piano Concerto No 18 in B flat major, K456
Piano Concerto No 19 in F major, K459
Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K466
Piano Concerto No 21 in C Major K467
Piano Concerto No 22 in E-flat Major K482
Piano Concerto No 23 in A major, K488
Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491
Piano Concerto No 25 in C major, K503
Piano Concerto No 26 in D major, K537
Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major, K595
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No2 in C minor, Op18
Piano Concerto No3 in D minor, Op30
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op43
Schoenberg
Piano Concerto
Schubert/Liszt
Wanderer Fantasy
Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op54
Shostakovich
Piano Concerto for No1 in C minor, Op35
Piano Concerto No2 in F major, Op102
Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No1 in B-flat minor, Op23