Alec Roth: Sometime I Sing
Music for Voice and Guitar
Mark Padmore (tenor) & Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
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.
Alec Roth: Sometime I Sing
Music for Voice and Guitar
Mark Padmore (tenor) & Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
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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.
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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.
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Awards and reviews
August 2013
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.
September 2013
Roth's song cycle My Lute and I harnesses language and music in a highly effective alliance...Padmore's flexible voice, with its high register being exploited to particular fruitful effect, is the ideal vehicle for this repertoire
12th 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.
8th June 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
