in Classical Music (May, 2018)
The English composer, vocal coach, and conductor Betty Roe (born 1930) studied voice with the baritone Clive Carey and the stellar Purcell soprano Margaret Field-Hyde, as well as composition with Lennox Berkeley. In the current music scene, Betty Roe’s songs are almost defiantly, aggressively tonal and folk-like, like paintings by Grandma Moses popping up at an exhibition of dour minimalist artists. Singing with ever-ardent conviction, Stephen Varcoe lavishes crisp diction on cryptic poems about a house, gardener, and scooter by Marian Lines, somehow echoing the American poet William Carlos Williams. Robin Tritschler’s rendition of The Fair Singer, to a poem of Andrew Marvell, is convincingly Irish romantic. Also intriguing are …
The Silver Hound And Other Songs By Betty Roe – Sarah Leonard
I know a bank
In a garden
Garden songs Nr. 1-2
Nr. 1 In this lone, open glade
Nr. 2 The critic
Magnificat
The silver hound
The fair singer
Songs for Graham Nr. 1-3
Nr. 1 The dream house
Nr. 2 The promising gardener
Nr. 3 Scooting
Diva’s lament
Hardy conversations Nr. 1-3
Nr. 1 A wife waits
Nr. 2 Father Dunman’s funeral
Nr. 3 The orphaned old maid
The life that I have
Autumn’s legacy
Celtic songs Nr. 1-3
Nr. 1 A cradle song
Nr. 2 A boy’s song
Nr. 3 The fiddler of Dooney
Sarah Leonard, Anne Marie Sheridan, Robin Tritschler, Stephen Varcoe, Madeleine Mitchell, Emma Murphy, Daniel Beer, Nigel Foster
20,90€
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