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PETER WARLOCK
Songs
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano)

[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]

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Philip Heseltine was born in London in 1894 and in his short life won public acclaim for the songs he wrote under the pseudonym Peter Warlock. He was particularly noted for his settings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts, and brought the most delicate sensibility of the music of that period to his compositions. Warlock was considered an authority on Elizabethan music and in the course of his life he edited over three hundred Elizabethan and Jacobean lute songs for voice and keyboard or for choir.

Rarely can these works have been so beautifully and movingly performed on record as in this celebrated album, featuring John Mark Ainsley at the peak of his considerable powers, perfectly accompanied by Roger Vignoles.

"Whether you collect tenors, English music or simply good singing, don't be without this" (BBC Music)

Tracks:

To the Memory of a Great Singer
Take, O take those lips away
As ever I saw
The bayley berith the bell away
There is a lady sweet and kind
Lullaby 'Golden slumbers kiss your eyes'
Sweet content
Late Summer
The Singer
Rest, sweet nymphs
Sleep
A Sad Song
In an Arbour Green
Autumn Twilight
I held love's head
Thou gav'st me leave to kiss
Yarmouth Fair
Pretty Ring Time
A Prayer to St Anthony
The Sick Heart
Robin Goodfellow
Jillian of Berry
Fair and True
Ha'nacker Mill
The Night
My Own Country
The First Mercy
The Lover's Maze
Cradle Song
Sigh no more, ladies
Passing by
The Contented Lover
The Fox
The Wind from the WestBerry