• Alec Roth
  • English Folk Songs (2008)
    (for Voice and Guitar)

  • Peters Edition Limited (World)
  • voc + gtr
  • Voice
  • 12 min

Programme Note

1. Scarborough Fair "Where are you going? To Scarborough Fair?"
2. The Brisk Young Widow "In Chester town there lived"
3. The Turtle Dove "Fare you well, my dear, I must be gone"
4. Dance to Your Daddy "Dance to your daddy, my little laddie"
5. Sweet William "A sailor's life is a merry life"

Texts: Anonymous / Traditional

Composed for and dedicated to Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski.

First performed at a Rochdale Music Society concert, Town Hall, Rochdale, 15 November 2008.

The songs are recorded by Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski on the album Sometime I Sing, available on CD, digital download or streaming, on the Signum Classics Label (SIGCD332).

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