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Composer:
Alec Roth

Artist(s):
Mark Padmore
Philippe Honore

Background: Alec Roth has been Founder and Artistic Director of the Royal Festival Hall Gamelan Programme; Music Director of the Baylis Programme, English National Opera; Composer in Association, Opera North; and Lecturer in Music, University of Edinburgh. His collaborations with the Indian writer Vikram Seth include the song cycles Romantic Residues (Bury St Edmunds Festival commission 2003) and Earth and Sky for children's chorus, a BBC commission for the Proms 2000 season.

Songs in Time of War is the first in a series of four major works commissioned jointly by the Salisbury, Chelsea and Lichfield Festivals, 2006- 2009. The two pieces for solo guitar are part of an ongoing series of works by Alec Roth dedicated to the Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski: Canción de la Luna (Song of the Moon) was first performed at a Wigmore Hall recital in 2005; its companion piece, Danza de la Luna was completed in 2006 and is heard for the first time on this recording.

Chinese Gardens is a setting of poems, again by Vikram Seth, which were inspired by visits to four of the famous Ming Dynasty gardens in the Chinese city of Suzhou.

CATALOGUE NR: SIGCD124
RECORD LABEL: Signum Classics
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 30-Jun-2008

COMPOSER: Alec Roth
TITLE: Songs in Time of War
TRACKS: Thoughts while Travelling at Night. Grieving for the Young Prince. The Visitor. A Fine Lady. Dreaming of Li Bai. Moonlit Night. An Autumn Meditation. The Old Cypress Tree at the Temple of Zhu-ge Liang. Spring Scene in Time of War. To Wei Ba who has Lived Away from the Court. Ballad of the Army Carts. Thoughts while Travelling at Night. Cancion de la Luna. Danza de la Luna. Chinese Gardens : The Tarrying Garden / The Master-of-Nets Garden / The Gentle Waves Pavilion / The Humble Administrator's Garden.
ARTISTS: Mark Padmore   Philippe Honore   Alison Nicholls   Morgan Szymanski

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: words by Vikram Seth after the Chinese poet Du Fu

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