The song cycle Britten composed for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who died last week, is the main work on Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside's latest disc for Naxos's English song series. The Songs and Proverbs of William Blake is arguably Britten's greatest vocal work for voices other than that of Peter Pears; Blake's poetry, the proverbs framing the poems and linking them in a continuous sequence, is a dark-hued reflection on man's position in God's creation. Williams's voice is lighter than Fischer-Dieskau's, but his response to the texts is so intense, so well judged that there is never a lack of authority. The juvenile Walter De la Mare settings of Tit for Tat provide the perfect foil, followed by some of Britten's best-known folksong arrangements, all beautifully delivered without a trace of archness.