Cat No:
CDA66938
Release Date: 01 October 1997
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571169385
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
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Description
Peter Warlock's posthumous reputation rests largely on his work as a prolific writer of songs. Here we have John Mark Ainsley singing not only nine songs for tenor and string quartet but also The Curlew, Warlock's wonderful cycle setting poems by W B Yeats with accompaniment from a small orchestra. The work opens with a plaintive cry of the curlew from the cor anglais, and birdsong remains a feature throughout.
Two of the composer's three orchestral works are also recorded: the famous Capriol (here in its second version, that for string orchestra) and the less well known Serenade. The former is essentially a collection of sixteenth-century dance tunes but these are often highly embellished and dressed up in twentieth-century orchestration. (The name 'Capriol' comes from a treatise on dance written in 1588 by a canon at the cathedral of Langres.)
The Serenade is a beautiful miniature; it is dedicated to Delius and shows many influences from the older composer while adhering to Warlock's own desire for organization and close-knit cohesion. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Capriol Suite for string orchestra: Basse Danse
- 2. Capriol Suite for string orchestra: Pavane
- 3. Capriol Suite for string orchestra: Tordion
- 4. Capriol Suite for string orchestra: Bransle
- 5. Capriol Suite for string orchestra: Pieds-en-l-air
- 6. Capriol Suite for string orchestra: Mattachins
- 7. Songs for tenor and string quartet: Sleep
- 8. Songs for tenor and string quartet: A Sad Song
- 9. Songs for tenor and string quartet: The Fairest May
- 10. Songs for tenor and string quartet: My Lady is a pretty one
- 11. Songs for tenor and string quartet: My little sweet darling
- 12. Songs for tenor and string quartet: Mourn no moe
- 13. Songs for tenor and string quartet: Take
- 14. O take those lips away
- 15. Songs for tenor and string quartet: My gostly fader
- 16. Songs for tenor and string quartet: Chopcherry
- 17. Serenade
- 18. The Curlew
- 19. The Curlew: Pale Brows
- 20. still hands
- 21. The Curlew: I cried when the moon . The Curlew: Interlude
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