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Track(s) taken from CDA67725

Romantic Residues

composer
2003; commissioned by Bury St Edmunds Festival for James Gilchrist and Alison Nicholls and first performed by them at the Bury Athenaeum on 20 May 2003
author of text
from All You Who Sleep Tonight, first published in 1990

James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp)
Recording details: November 2007
St Martin's Church, East Woodhay, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Produced by Philip Hobbs
Engineered by Philip Hobbs
Release date: August 2008
Total duration: 22 minutes 1 seconds

Cover artwork: Windy Day near Blainville by Rosemary Hunt (1937-2003)
Reproduced by kind permission of Richard Townley
 

What do we remember of our past romantic encounters? This is the theme of Alec Roth’s Romantic Residues, the opening section of Vikram Seth’s collection of verse All You Who Sleep Tonight, first published in 1990. There are nine poems in all, varying widely in content and mood—from the light and whimsical to the melancholy and dark. The songs were commissioned by the Bury St Edmunds Festival and composed for James Gilchrist and Alison Nicholls, who gave the first performance at the Athenaeum, Bury St Edmunds, on 20 May 2003.

from notes by Alison Nicholls © 2008

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