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Betty Roe is quite a phenomenon - unknown to most people! Composer of six operas, orchestral works and light music for theater and cabaret, her firs tlove is art-song of which she has produced over 300 examples. Her style is eclectic, ranging from the serious to the comical, displaying a wonderful wit as well as a firm grasp of vocal writing and a way of providing music that seems totally at one with the texts; and at the age of 87, she remains a major force in the music world. In 2011, she was award the MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to classical music and composition. This program of songs composed over the last 30 years is a delight and features topo English soloists Sarah Leonard and Anne Marie Sheridan, Robin Tritschler and Stephen Varcoe with Nigel Foster, English Song-accompanist extraordinaire at the piano. In several items obbligato French horn, recorder or violin add to the texture.
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Reviews
“… In the current music scene, Betty Roe’s songs are almost defiantly, aggressively tonal and folk-like, like paintings by Grandma Moses popping up at an exhibition of dour minimalist artists. Singing with ever-ardent conviction, Stephen Varcoe lavishes crisp diction on cryptic poems about a house, gardener, and scooter by Marian Lines, somehow echoing the American poet William Carlos Williams… Varco and the soprano Anne Marie Sheridan are ideally characterful… The pianist Nigel Foster… plays with audible affection for the material.” ****
Benjamin Ivry – Classical Music magazine – May 2018
"... a wonderfully-performed and excellent recorded album of no fewer than 19 of her [Roe] song settings ... This may be a belated tribute to a very fine and exceptionally gifted composer, but it is none the less most welcome to the point where one hopes it will lead to more performances and recordings of music of such inherent and genuine quality." *****
Robert Matthew-Walker - Musical Opinion Quarterly - October-December 2017
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