Roger Marsh
Professor
Roger Marsh is a composer with particular interests in music for voices and music theatre. His 1977 vocal piece Not a soul but ourselves…is based on texts from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and was recorded by Electric Phoenix on Wergo records in the 1980s and re-recorded in 2011 by Paul Hillier’s Theatre of Voices for Harmonia Mundi. A setting of Albert Giraud’s Pierrot Lunaire – 50 Rondels Bergamasques was released in 2007 on NMC records (NMC127), and a major work for the Hilliard Ensemble, Il Cor Tristo – a setting of two cantos from Dante’s Inferno – was released on the ECM label in 2013. In December 2013 the Hilliards also premiered Poor Yorick a setting of the Death of Yorick from Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’. Another theme in Marsh’s work is the influence of Japanese traditional music, which has found expression in a number of instrumental works, most recently Kinshi (2015), composed for the Manchestre University ensemble ‘Vaganza’.
Roger Marsh is also known for his abridgements and productions of all the novels of James Joyce for Naxos Audiobooks, including Joyce’s Ulysses – unabridged on 22 CDs (2004). His music is published by Chester Novello and Peters Edition, London.
Links
http://www.rogermarshcomposer.co.uk-
11 June 2018
Post Words and Music 15 – Music and Beckett (2) -
27 May 2018
Post Words and Music 14 – Music and Beckett (1) -
19 April 2018
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20 March 2018
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17 January 2018
Post Words and Music 13 – Il Cor Tristo -
2 January 2018
Post Message in a bottle -
4 October 2017
Post Words and Music 12: What is a Song? -
1 September 2017
Post Charlottesville Blues -
4 July 2017
Post Words and Music 11: British Values and Joe Steele -
7 February 2017
Post Words and Music 10: Pierrot Lunaire – Voicing Albert Giraud -
9 January 2017
Post Barry Guy -
26 October 2016
News Item Poor Yorick CD release -
24 August 2016
Post Words and Music 9 Pierrot Lunaire: re-discovering Albert Giraud -
6 June 2016
Post A new lease of life -
7 December 2015
Post Words and Music 8 Samson and Pasolini -
13 November 2015
Post Words and Music 7 The Song of Abigail -
6 November 2015
Post Words and Music 6 Lamentations -
20 October 2015
Post Words and Music 5 Silly Love Songs -
16 October 2015
News Item Sozu Baba performances in Colombia -
28 September 2015
Post Words and Music 4 Not a soul but ourselves…… -
9 September 2015
Post Words and Music 3 ‘Dum’ -
3 September 2015
Post Words and Music 2 James Joyce -
1 September 2015
Post Words and Music 1 Words Matter -
3 June 2015
News Item Roger Marsh’s Sozu Baba performance in Mexico