Francis Routh

Op 8 Songs of farewell

Francis Routh, Vocal and choral works

‘In memoriam Benjamin 24.ix.59-13.viii.60’    (13 mins) For high voice and piano The spring (Kathleen Raine) Glycine’s Song (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Comfort to a youth that had lost his love (Robert Herrick) A baby’s epitaph (Algernon Charles Swinburne) A farewell (George Gascoigne) First performance 7 May 1965 London (Arts Council) by Ilse Wolf and Paul Hamburger   Contact us for more…

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Op 6 Elegy

Francis Routh, Vocal and choral works

For high voice, violin and piano    (9 mins) Poems by St John of the Cross, translated by Roy Campbell Recitative Upon a gloomy night Passacaglia Upon that lucky night Andante quasi Adagio Within my flowering breast First performance 1 October 1968 Nottingham University by Ilse Wolf, Yfrah Neaman and Martin Isepp   Contact us for more information on this work…

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Op 5 Four Shakespeare Songs

Francis Routh, Vocal and choral works

‘for Ilse Wolf’    (13 mins) For high voice and piano Orpheus with his lute from King Henry VIII How should I your true love know? from Hamlet Sigh no more, ladies from Much ado about nothing Blow, blow thou winter wind from As you like it First performance 12 November 1963 Cologne (British Council) by Ilse Wolf and Martin Isepp…

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Romanian Dance

Francis Routh, Piano music

for Piano Duet    (5 mins) First performance 14 April 1991 Sheffield (Merlin Theatre) by Michael Routh and Francis Routh   Contact us for more information on this work Score ISMN M 708045 80 9 (together with Elegy)  

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Op 70 Scenes for Piano 5 Sonata Festiva

Francis Routh, Piano music

‘for Lora Dimitrova’    (18 mins) Vivace con fuoco Intermezzo, Adagio Presto festiva First performance 9 August 2003 Mere, Wiltshire (Church of St Michael) by Charles Matthews Contact us for more information on this work Score ISMN M 708045 78 6 DOWNLOAD A PERFORMANCE IN CD QUALITY

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