WARLOCK: Curlew (The) / Lillygay / Peterisms / Saudades (English Song, Vol. 4) Classical Naxos

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PETER WARLOCK

The Curlew

O Curlew, cry no more in the air

7:13

Solo: Philippa Davies flute

Solo: Christine Pendrill cor anglais

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair

1:25

Solo: Philippa Davies flute

Solo: Christine Pendrill cor anglais

I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds

9:27

Solo: Philippa Davies flute

Solo: Christine Pendrill cor anglais

Interlude

2:24

Solo: Philippa Davies flute

Solo: Christine Pendrill cor anglais

I wander by the edge of this desolate lake

1:43

Solo: Philippa Davies flute

Solo: Christine Pendrill cor anglais

Lillygay

The Distracted Maid

3:16

Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane

2:30

Rantum Tantum

1:06

Peter Warlock's Fancy

2:10

Peterisms, Set I

10.

Chopcherry

1:00

11.

A Sad Song

2:09

12.

Rutterkin

1:11

13.

My gostly fader

2:02

14.

Bright is the ring of words

1:42

Saudades

15.

Along the stream

2:43

16.

Take, O take those lips away

1:49

17.

Heraclitus

2:51

18.

The Cloths of Heaven

2:10

19.

The Frostbound Wood

3:03

20.

Bethlehem Down

4:33

21.

Sweet and twenty

2:00

22.

And wilt thou leave me thus?

2:03

23.

Mr. Belloc's Fancy

1:33

Peterisms, Set II

24.

Roister Doister

1:22

25.

Spring

1:14

26.

Lusty Juventus

1:19

27.

The Bachelor

0:50

28.

Away to Twiver

1:54

JOHN MASEFIELD / PETER WARLOCK

29.

Captain Stratton's Fancy

1:47

Solo: John Constable piano

First issued on the Collins Classical label, this Naxos issue offers a well-chosen selection, characterfully performed to bring out the contrasting flavours, vigorous on the one hand, evocative on the other. It is good to have his masterpiece, The Curlew, an extended setting of Yeats, as the main item, even if Adrian Thompson has moments of roughness, which are exaggerated by close recorded balance. Although the instrumental accompaniment is beautifully played, there too, the closeness prevents the full atmospheric beauty of the writing from being appreciated. Thompson is more successful in songs that require less sustained lines, and similar reservations have to be made about the singing of Christopher Maltman in the baritone songs, though he is rousingly convincing in such characteristic items as Fancy, Mr Belloc’s fancy and (best known of all Captain Stratton’s fancy." ** Penguin Guide - January 2009

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