Peter Warlock: Songs Volume 7 1927-1928: Medium Voice

Volume Iv - Songs 1920-1923-The Peter Warlock Critical Edition series represents a treasure trove of English song.This the fourth volume focuses upon songs for the Medium Voice from the period 1920-1923. The songs of Peter Warlock are inspiring and intriguing pieces that rank him with the greatest English composers of all time. This is truly a superb collection of some of the best of his work painstakingly and meticulously edited by Michael Pilkington. This revised Critical Edition is an accurate faithful and exhaustive volume that maintains Warlock’s original keys and intentions. With sixteen songs each featuring an in-depth commentary this is a tremendousacquisition for any enthusiasts of English song.

Volume I - Songs 1911-1919-The Peter Warlock Critical Edition series represents a treasure trove of English song.This the first volume focuses upon songs for the High Voice from the period 1911-1919. The songs of Peter Warlock are inspiring and intriguing pieces that rank him with the greatest English composers of all time. This is truly a superb collection of some of the best of his work painstakingly and meticulously edited by Michael Pilkington. This revised Critical Edition is an accurate faithful and exhaustive volume that maintains Warlock’s original keys and intentions. With thirteen songs each featuring an in-depth commentary this is a tremendousacquisition for any enthusiasts of English song.

Volume Ii - Songs 1911-1919-The Peter Warlock Critical Edition series represents a treasure trove of English song.This the second volume focuses upon songs for the Medium Voice from the period 1911-1919. The songs of Peter Warlock are inspiring and intriguing pieces that rank him with the greatest English composers of all time. This is truly a superb collection of some of the best of his work painstakingly and meticulously edited by Michael Pilkington. This revised Critical Edition is an accurate faithful and exhaustive volume that maintains Warlock’s original keys and intentions. With sixteen songs each featuring an in-depth commentary this is a tremendousacquisition for any enthusiasts of English song.

Volume Iii - Songs 1921-1922-The Peter Warlock Critical Edition series represents a treasure trove of English song.This the third volume focuses upon songs for the High Voice from the period 1921-1922. The songs of Peter Warlock are inspiring and intriguing pieces that rank him with the greatest English composers of all time. This is truly a superb collection of some of the best of his work painstakingly and meticulously edited by Michael Pilkington. This revised Critical Edition is an accurate faithful and exhaustive volume that maintains Warlock’s original keys and intentions. With fifteen songs each featuring an in-depth commentary this is a tremendousacquisition for any enthusiasts of English song.

In this fifth volume of Warlock’s Choral works a set of three songs on poetry of Hilaire Belloc have been arranged for Chorus SATB and Piano as well as The Birds a fourth setting of Belloc originally written as a unison song for boys’ Voices. The Rich Cavalcade and The Spring of the Year were written and published in Warlock’s lifetime. Written in his maturity these songs show Warlock’s idiosyncratic Voice influenced by Elizabethan and folk music Delius and the music of his time.Composer writer and musical scholar Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) was active in the early decades of the twentieth century when he distinguished himself by his rediscovery and transcriptionof early English music his writing on Delius Gesualdo and other many other musicians and for his Choral works and songs among them the carol Bethlehem Down.

The sixth book in a fabulous series that presents the best of Peter Warlock’s Choral Music. This volume contains a fantastic collection of his most popular and most loved songs. Volume six contains eight full songs set for Unison Voices with Piano accompaniment. Warlock has such a way with words phrasing and melody that these songs are sure to delight singers players and audiences.

The fourth book in a fabulous series that presents the best of Peter Warlock’s Choral Music. Warlock has been described as the Carollist of the last century and is a treasure of British song-writing. This volume contains a fantastic collection of some of his best and most loved Carols. Eight Carols set for SATB mixed choir and a Piano accompaniment for rehearsal. Warlock has such a way with words phrasing and melody that these songs are sure to delight singers players and audiences.

Volume 5 - Songs 1923-1924-The critically and editorially authoritative editions of the songs of Peter Warlock. This fifth collection spans the years of 1923 and 1924 containing eleven groups of songs for voice and Piano by Warlock including Candlelight a cycle of nursary rhymes. Edited and introduced by Fred Tomlinson.

Another fantastic collection of songs by Peter Warlock set for 2 and 3-part Upper Voices with Piano accompaniment. Warlock was a treasure of British song-writing he composed and arranged a good deal of Choral music during his lifetime though little was originally conceived for ladies’ choirs. These six songs were completed between 1918 and 1928 a period in which parlour piano was out of fashion due to the technologies that were being introduced yet there was demand for part-songs and this was an opening for Warlock who re-wrote earlier solos. Magical and poetic Warlock has a way with words phrasing and melody and these songs are sure to delightsingers players and audiences.