Alec Roth: A Road Less... - Mark Padmore,morgan Szymanski,sacconi Quartet - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

This album features three works by distinguished composer Alec Roth, each setting poetry on themes of nature and human reflection. A Road Less Travelled is a cantata for tenor and guitar using poems by Edward Thomas, written before his death in 1917. The Garden Path is a cycle for mezzo-soprano and string quartet setting poems by Amy Lowell, many inspired by her garden. Other Earths and Skies sets Vikram Seth’s translations of Li Bai’s poems for tenor and oboe. Performers include Mark Padmore, Morgan Szymanski, Martha McLorinan, the Sacconi Quartet, Hugo Hymas, and Nicholas Daniel.

Tracklist

1. A Road Less Travelled: No. 1, Introduction (Rain)
2. A Road Less Travelled: No. 2, Away
3. A Road Less Travelled: No. 3, the Signpost
4. A Road Less Travelled: No. 4, Roads 1
5. A Road Less Travelled: No. 5, Bird Song
6. A Road Less Travelled: No. 6, Peace
7. A Road Less Travelled: No. 7, Interlude (Instrumental)
8. A Road Less Travelled: No. 8, the Bridge
9. A Road Less Travelled: No. 9, Roads 2
10. A Road Less Travelled: No. 10, Midnight Rain
11. A Road Less Travelled: No. 11, the Gallows
12. A Road Less Travelled: No. 12, Out In the Dark
13. A Road Less Travelled: No. 13, the Child In the Snow
14. A Road Less Travelled: No. 14, Home
15. A Road Less Travelled: No. 15, Lights Out
16. The Garden Path: No. 1, Moonlit Path
17. The Garden Path: No. 2, Through the Trees
18. The Garden Path: No. 3, Withered Leaves
19. The Garden Path: No. 4, Late September
20. Other Earths and Skies: No. 1, In the Quiet Night
21. Other Earths and Skies: No. 2, a Song of Qiu-Pu
22. Other Earths and Skies: No. 3, Question and Answer In the Mountains
23. Other Earths and Skies: No. 4, the Waterfall At Lu Shan
24. Other Earths and Skies: No. 5, Seeing Meng Haoran Off To Yangzhou

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland