Sometime I Sing: Music For Voice & Guitar

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ALEC ROTH
Sometime I Sing: Music For Voice & Guitar
Mark Padmore (tenor) & Morgan Szymanski (guitar)

[ Signum / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 20 August 2013

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A lyrical collection of chamber works for tenor and guitar, 'Sometime I Sing' unites Gramophone award-winning tenor Mark Padmore with Mexican guitarist, Morgan Szymanski, in settings of texts by Thomas Wyatt, Vikram Seth, John Donne and Edward Thomas by the composer Alec Roth.

Roth is a UK-based composer who works across a wide range of musical genres, including stage works, vocal, choral, orchestral, instrumental, and Javanese gamelan. His former posts include Founder/Director of the Royal Festival Hall Gamelan Programme and Southbank Gamelan Players, Music Director of the Baylis Programme, English National Opera and Associate Composer, Opera North. This is his third disc with Signum, following a choral album with Ex Cathedra (SIGCD270) and a chamber music disc 'Songs in Time of War' (SIGCD124) also with Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski

"Light-footed, lyrical, Roth's settings range from Thomas Wyatt to Vikram Seth. They suit Szymanski's elegant guitar and Padmore's refined tenor, but devitalise folksongs like Scarborough Fair." BBC Music Magazine, August 2013 ***

"[My Lute ande I] is an excellent and most appealing set of songs which I enjoyed very much; the performance is surely definitive...This is a delightful disc containing some highly accomplished and very imaginative music, beautifully written for voice and guitar." MusicWeb International, 12th August 2013

"Padmore's clean tenor finds an ideal vehicle ... there's a transparent, haunting beauty about it, and the accompaniments for violin, harp and guitar are a joy" The Times, 8th June 2013 ****

Tracks:

My Lute and I
Invocation
Dark Night
Night Songs (3)
Autumnal
English Folk Songs (5)
Lights Out