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1. "Day": Allegro e leggiero   2. "Valley of Surprise": Adagio ed espressivo   3. "Flourish": Allegro molto   4. "Pageant": Alla marcia

 

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Opus 88
Suite for Pianoforte

With its frequent changes of time signature and wide-spanning chords, this four-movement suite for piano written in 1933 represents a challenge for the performer.

About this work

Dedication: "To Pamela McKenna"

The work was dedicated to a family friend and keen pianist Pamela McKenna, wife of Reginald McKenna (1863-1943) who was Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Asquith's government during 1915-16.

In 1933 Cyril Rootham also set to music a poem by Pamela's young son Michael: Op.87 "Daybreak at Sea". Michael had died in 1931 at the age of only 21, and his mother published a memorial volume about his short life.

This performance

Recitalist, accompanist and lecturer Philip Lange performed this work during two recording sessions on 14 June 2017 and 3 January 2018.

Philip Lange

Publication status

We are grateful to St. John's College, Cambridge, who gave us access to the two original manuscripts of this work.

Suite for Pianoforte: Movement 1
By permission of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge

The sheet music for Rootham's "Suite for Pianoforte" has now been typeset, and in August 2019 the work was published by London Music Press.

Suite for Pianoforte: published 2019
ISMN 979-0-7081-6608-5
Available from London Music Press

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