Director of Music and organist at St John’s College, Cambridge, from 1901 until his death, Cyril Rootham was a composer who found success in his lifetime, and who now merits reappraisal as part of the ongoing twenty-first century review of our twentieth-century English heritage.
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Duration: 50 minutes For SATB choir with three flutes (one doubling piccolo), oboe, cor anglais, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (three players), tubular bells, organ, harp, celeste and strings
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CONTENTS A Child’s Prayer (D flat – E flat) A Poplar and the Moon (E – F sharp) Butterflies (F – G) Everyone Sang (F sharp – A flat) Idyll (E – F sharp) Morning Glory (D – E flat) South Wind (D – E)
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