This piece is dedicated to Arthur Warrel who was a Bristolian. The words are from a text by Rootham's son, Jasper. The work certainly deserves to be placed with Vaughan Williams' 'London Symphony and Dyson's 'In Honour of the City' as an invocation of a city. Yet this is only a small portion of the Rootham catalogue. He produced a major opera, unheard in our generation, The Two Sisters .
Much choral work remains to be re-discovered.
This work was produced at Cambridge in 1930 and is set for solo voices, chorus and full orchestra. A String Quintet in D was given in 1909. Three String Quartets followed. Perhaps the composer's best known Chamber work is the Septet. The Violin Sonata awaits a revival.