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Welcome to the Betty Roe Society web site; dedicated to the works of English composer, Betty Roe MBE. 

Our website it is currently being renovated.

Silver Hound CD CoverThe Silver Hound and Other Songs by Betty Roe

Betty Roe MBE is one of Britain's finest composers of English Song.  Roe has composed over 200 songs but the majority, particularly those composed since 1990, had remained unrecorded.  The Betty Roe Society is delighted to have produced its recording of 12 significant works, many of which are world premiere recordings.

Copies of the recording can be purchased from Divine Art Records;

https://divineartrecords.com/recording/silver-hound-songs-betty-roe/

As a CD, 24 bit WAV, FLAC or MP3.

Listen to Robin Tritschler and Nigel Foster's beautiful performance of 'The Fair Singer' on YouTube;

The Artists

The Society secured the services of some of the UK's best musicians;

Engineered by Simon Bishop, Chairman of the Institute of Professional Sound.

The Songs

  1. I Know a Bank
  2. In a Garden
  3. In this Lone Open Glade
  4. The Critic
  5. Magnificat
  6. The Silver Hound
  7. The Fair Singer
  8. The Dream House
  9. The Promising Gardener
  10. Scooting
  11. Diva's Lament
  12. A Wife Waits
  13. Farmer Dunman's Funeral
  14. The Orphaned Old Maid
  15. The Life that I Have
  16. Autumn's Legacy
  17. A Cradle Song
  18. A Boy's Song
  19. The Fiddler of Dooney

An album of the sheet music for most of the songs is available from Robish Music;

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/RobishMusic

Silver Hound Vocal Album

The sheet music for Divas Lament and I Know a Bank are both available from Music Sales.

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The long term intention is to create an article for each of Betty Roe's compositions.  This will take some time and, in the interim, we felt that it might be useful to provide the catalogue as it has been compiled so far.