"Remember" [Patrick Hawes]

"Remember" [Patrick Hawes]

First line of lyrics: Remember me when I am gone away

Part of: "The Call"

Hawes, Patrick; music (English, born 1958)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1997 [composition]; 2014 [publication] [copyright]; 2016 [cycle publication]

Novello and Co.

genre: song|art song (lied)|choral music|song cycle

solo: soprano

instrumentation: piano

initial time signature: 4/4

other version 1 - solo: soprano

other version 1 - instrumentation: string orchestra

other version 2 - chorus: SATB voices with divisi

other version 2 - instrumentation: piano|organ

other version 2 - initial sharps/flats: three flats

other version 3 - solo: soprano

other version 3 - chorus: SATB voices with divisi

other version 3 - instrumentation: string quartet|harp

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Remember"

Place in the larger work: The fifth song of ten in the song cycle called "The Call" which includes 1. "The Call" (George Herbert); 2. "Autobiography"; 3. "St Michael and All Angels, Edenham"; 4. "Let a Florid Music Praise" (W.H. Auden); 5. "Remember" (Christina Rossetti); 6. "The Tyger"; 7. "Two Loves"; 8. "Echo" (Christina Rossetti); 9. "If I could tell you" (W.H. Auden); 10. "Who can deny?"

Composition history: "Originally a piece for solo soprano and piano from the collection The Call, there is now also a new choral setting of the well-known Christina Rossetti poem." ("Remember")

Tempo markings: "Con Amore"; quarter note = c. 80

Performance instructions: For soprano (from "The Call") and piano or string orchestra; chorus: SATB or solo soprano and piano/organ or strings and harp. "Parts for Soprano, String Quartet & Harp version and Full Orchestral version available on hire" ("Remember")

Performance history: Premiere of the choral version on 8 Nov. 2014 by the Aliquando Choir and the West Forest Sinfonia, Patrick Hawes, conductor, in "The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal Concert; In Memoriam - Lest We forget" at St Mary's Church, Henley-on-Thames. Recording for performance available: https://www.patrickhawes.com/2016/12/01/remember/ ("Remember")

Recordings: Hawes, Patrick. "Remember (Christina Rossetti)." Performance by Elizabeth Adams, soprano and Patrick Hawes, piano, YouTube, uploaded 12 Sep. 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e49GVcUZuE.

Format 1: musical score

8 pages (satb & piano/organ); performance time 3 minutes and 14 seconds; complete song cycle performance time 14 minutes

Other data reference(s): Patrick Hawes Composer, https://www.patrickhawes.com/2016/12/01/remember/. Accessed 24 Apr. 2020.

Cataloguer: Robyn Finlay and Roxanne Lafleur, University of Ottawa

musical score for SATB & piano: "Patrick Hawes: Remember." Presto Sheet Music, https://www.prestomusic.com/sheet-music/products/7647528--patrick-hawes-remember. Accessed 24 Apr. 2020.

Record: CRM-remember-hawes

SATB chorus and piano: "© 2014 Novello & Company Limited"

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