Sung by Elspeth Marrow with Christopher Gould, piano (excerpt)
Genre: Vocal
Mood: Tragic
Forces: Female voice, Piano
Length: 3 Minutes
A setting of the poem by Christina Rossetti.
Remember appears on the album Sunset Over the Weald, available here, sung by Elspeth Marrow, with Christopher Gould, piano.
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
First performance:
9 March 2002, Dilys Benson & Clifford Benson, Tonbridge, Kent.
Remember appears on the album Sunset Over the Weald, available here, sung by Elspeth Marrow, with Christopher Gould, piano.
24 Feb 2017: Sung by Elspeth Marrow with Adrianna Stoiber, piano, Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London - Brooks-van der Pump English Song Competition.