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SIGCD971

Alec Roth (b1948)

A road less travelled & other works

Download only Available Friday 23 January 2026
Recording details: October 2022
Church of St Anne & St Agnes, Gresham Street, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by David Hinitt
Release date: 23 January 2026
Total duration: 61 minutes 11 seconds
 
A road less travelled
1
No 1: Introduction (Rain)   Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain  [0'42]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
2
No 2: Away   Early one morning in May I set out  [2'56]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
3
No 3: The signpost   The dim sea glints chill  [2'29]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
4
No 4: Roads 1   I love roads  [2'38]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
5
No 5: Bird song   The green roads that end in the forest  [3'19]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
6
No 6: Peace   Gone the wild day  [1'49]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
7
No 7: Interlude  [1'59]
Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
8
No 8: The bridge   I have come a long way today  [1'18]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
9
No 9: Roads 2   Roads go on  [2'35]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
10
No 10: Midnight rain   Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain  [1'37]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
11
No 11: The gallows   There was a weasel lived in the sun  [2'48]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
12
No 12: Out in the dark  [2'11]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
13
No 13: The child in the snow   In the gloom of whiteness  [1'11]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
14
No 14: Home   Not the end: but there’s nothing more  [1'44]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
15
No 15: Lights out   I have come to the borders of sleep  [4'16]
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
The garden path
16
No 1: Moonlit path   The path runs straight between the flowering rows  [3'57]
Martha McLorinan (alto), Sacconi Quartet
17
No 2: Through the trees   The wind is singing through the trees tonight  [2'57]
Martha McLorinan (alto), Sacconi Quartet
18
No 3: Withered leaves   White phlox and white hydrangeas  [4'13]
Martha McLorinan (alto), Sacconi Quartet
19
No 4: Late September   Tang of fruitage in the air  [5'05]
Martha McLorinan (alto), Sacconi Quartet
Other earths and skies
20
No 1: In the quiet night   The floor before my bed is bright  [1'44]
Hugo Hymas (tenor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
21
No 2: A song of Qui-pu   The Qiu-pu shore teems with white gibbons  [1'57]
Hugo Hymas (tenor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
22
No 3: Question and answer in the mountains   They ask me why I live in the green mountains  [2'21]
Hugo Hymas (tenor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
23
No 4: The waterfall at Lu Shan   In sunshine, Censer Peak breathes purple mist  [2'04]
Hugo Hymas (tenor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
24
No 5: Seeing Meng Haoran off to Yangzhou   Yellow Crane Terrace: my old friend bids me goodbye  [3'21]
Hugo Hymas (tenor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

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