Mark Padmore - Alec Roth: Road Less Travelled [CD] Zydeco Pitchfork once referred to Fireworks

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Mark Padmore - Alec Roth: Road Less Travelled [CD] Zydeco Pitchfork once referred to FireworksThis 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