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PETER WARLOCK
The Curlew
1.
O Curlew, cry no more in the air
7:13
Solo: Philippa Davies flute
Solo: Christine Pendrill cor anglais
2.
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair
1:25
Solo: Philippa Davies flute
Solo: Christine Pendrill cor anglais
3.
I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds
9:27
Solo: Philippa Davies flute
Solo: Christine Pendrill cor anglais
4.
Interlude
2:24
Solo: Philippa Davies flute
Solo: Christine Pendrill cor anglais
5.
I wander by the edge of this desolate lake
1:43
Solo: Philippa Davies flute
Solo: Christine Pendrill cor anglais
Lillygay
6.
The Distracted Maid
3:16
7.
Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane
2:30
8.
Rantum Tantum
1:06
9.
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
Notes
The programme of this release, previously available on the Collins Classics label, reflects the wide variety of vocal styles and moods of Warlock’s music. The centrepiece is Warlock’s heartfelt and atmospheric setting of W. B. Yeats’s The Curlew. Set beside this are Warlock’s boisterous drinking songs, as well as a number of more sober individual songs. This programme is an excellent introduction to one of the most interesting English composers of the first half of the last century.
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Reviews
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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