Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212033227
Catalog number: SIGCD 332
Releasedate: 01-09-13
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212033227
Releasedate: 01-09-13
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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 and a chamber music album Songs in Time of War also with Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski:
"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
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 and a chamber music album Songs in Time of War also with Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski:
"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
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1My Lute and I- I. Sigh and Moan02:33
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2My Lute and I- II. Tell Me02:41
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3My Lute and I- III. How?03:48
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4My Lute and I- IV. A Kiss01:28
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5My Lute and I- V. Wonder03:06
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6My Lute and I- VI. Out of My Mind03:11
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7My Lute and I- VII. Tangled03:11
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8My Lute and I- VIII. Sometime I Sing03:30
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9My Lute and I- IX. Now Cease04:22
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10Invocation04:40
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11Dark Night04:50
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12Three Night Songs- I. The Gift03:04
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13Three Night Songs- II. Heart03:23
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14Three Night Songs- III. All You Who Sleep Tonight01:34
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15Autumnal04:01
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16English Folk Songs- I. Scarborough Fair02:01
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17English Folk Songs- II. The Brisk Young Widow02:12
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18English Folk Songs- III. The Turtle Dove03:00
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19English Folk Songs- IV. Dance to Your Daddy01:40
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20English Folk Songs- V. Sweet William02:58
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21Lights Out04:14