Roe's important cycle of 5 Herrick poems for Counter-tenor voice has been recorded by James Bowman (Somm) and Tim Travers-Brown (The Frostbound Wood - Hyperion). The songs are also in the repertoire of many international counter-tenors.
Each song is dedicated to one of the five major English counter-tenors active in the early 1970s.
The keyboard part may be played on either the piano or harpsochord and the vocal line can also be sung by a baritone or contralto.