Cyril Rootham

Cyril Bradley Rootham ( born October 5, 1875 in Redland, Bristol, † March 18, 1938 ) was an English composer.

Rootham studied from 1894 at St John's College, Cambridge. From 1898 to 1901 he was organist at Christ Church in Hampstead and studied at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford, Walter Parratt and Marmaduke Barton. From 1901 until his death he was organist and musical director at St. John 's College. His pupils included Arthur Bliss, Christian Darnton, Arnold Cooke, David Franklin, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, William Glock, Walter Leigh, Bernard Stevens, Basil Maine, Robin Orr and Percy Young.

1910 appeared his publication Voice Training for Choirs and Schools. In the same year he became conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society. In this role, he determined largely the musical life of Cambridge. His performances of Elizabethan madrigals in the 1920s led to the establishment of numerous Madrigal companies in Cambridge and throughout England result. In 1930 he organized the first Cambridge Festival of British Music, in which among others Kathleen Long, Zoltán Kodály, Manuel de Falla and Arthur Honegger participated. Because of progressive muscular dystrophy, he had to give up conducting activities in 1936.

Rootham composed an opera, two symphonies, choral works, cantatas, chamber music and songs.

Works

  • Stage Works The Two Sisters, opera (1918-1921)
  • A Passerby, Rhapsody on Robert Bridges (1910 )
  • Pan, Rhapsody for Orchestra ( 1912)
  • Processional for the Chancellor's Music ( 1920)
  • St. John's Suite, for small orchestra ( 1921)
  • Miniature Suite for orchestra or piano and strings ( 1921)
  • Rhapsody on the old English tune " Lazarus ", for double string orchestra (1922 )
  • Psalm of Adonis, for orchestra ( 1931)
  • Symphony no 1 in C minor ( 1932)
  • Symphony no 2, for orchestra with choral finale (1936 )
  • Andromeda, dramatic cantata (1908 )
  • The Lady of Shalott, for chorus and orchestra ( 1909-10 )
  • Coronach, for baritone, chorus and orchestra (1910 )
  • The Stolen Child, for chorus and orchestra (1911 )
  • For the Fallen, for chorus and orchestra (1915 )
  • Brown Earth, for chorus, semi- chorus and orchestra (1921-1922)
  • Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, for soloists, chorus, semi- chorus and orchestra (1928 )
  • City in the West, for chorus and orchestra (1936 )
  • String Quartet in D major (1909 )
  • String Quartet in C major (1914 )
  • Suite for Flute and Piano ( 1921)
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor ( 1925)
  • Septet for Viola, woodwind quintet and harp (1930 )
  • Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano ( 1932)

Disco printing specifications

  • Symphony 1: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley Lyrita Recorded Edition, SRCD.269
  • Violin Concerto in G minor: Jacqueline Roche, Robert Stevenson, Dutton Epoch CDLX 7219
  • For the Fallen, Miniature Suite, The Psalm of Adonis, City in the West, The Stolen Child: Alan Fearon, Sinfonia Chorus, BBC Northern Singers, Northern Sinfonia of England, Richard Hickox, EMI Classics, 5099950592326
  • Miniature Suite for String Orchestra and Piano ( and other works " Peacock Pie" ): Martin Roscoe, Guildhall Strings, Hyperion Records, B0000631BI
  • Great European Organs, No. 66 - Epinikion and Elegiac Rhapsody on an Old Church Melody: Graham Barber at the cathedral organ in the cathedral in Ripon (England), Priory Records, B00008OETY
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