Peter Warlock: The Choral Music Of Peter Warlock - Volume 6: Unison Voices:

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.

Corpus Christi is an anonymous Middle English Carol first written down c.1500. It was re-worked as a carol for Soprano and Tenor Soloists with SATB chorus by Peter Walock (1894-1930) in 1919. It wasdedicated to Thomas Strong later Bishop of Oxford who had been Dean of Christ Church College during Warlock's brief time studying there and who is better known for encouraging William Walton's musicalcareer. While he is best remembered for his scandalous lifestyle and his large-scale Capriol Suite the Corpus Christi carol ranks alongside Bethlehem Down as one ofWarlock's most sensitive and beautiful creations.

The third 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 Unison voices and Piano accompaniment. Warlock has such a way with words phrasing and melody that these songs are sure to delight singers players and audiences.

Sociable Songs-The second book in a fabulous series that presents the best of Peter Warlock’s Choral Music. Warlock was a treasure of British song-writing and this book contains a fantastic collection of sociable songs ideal for encouraging sing-songs and parties! Four part-songs set for Male voices and Piano accompaniment. Humorous entertaining moving and sometimes vulgar songs Warlock has a way with words phrasing and melody and these songs are sure to delight singers players and audiences.

Par HALSEY S. / SUMMERLEY J.. Ce volume présente une richesse du répertoire inestimable, original pour les chorales de voix supérieure. Bon nombre des pièces recueillies dans le présent volume sont publiées ici pour la première fois ou ne jouissent pas de la même exposition comme une grande partie du répertoire des voix mixtes. Le volume s'appuie sur le succès de 'Chorale Programme Series' la musique de Faber, dont certaines pièces ont été tirées. 30 'Masterworks sacré englobe de nombreuses époques et offre les deux accompagné et morceaux non accompagnés, il forme une collection dynamique et polyvalente convenant à une variété de services et de concerts à travers l'année. Ce volume est une ressource inestimable, tant pour les chorales de voix supérieure afin d'obtenir source d'inspiration et nouveau répertoire ainsi que pour mixtes chorales de voix qui veulent mettre en valeur le talent de leurs les chanteuses. 10-packs sont disponibles et offrent une économie de coûts importantes. / Date parution : 1999-12-25/ Recueil / SATB

Remember Bethlehem was conceived after a conversation on the works of the late story-telling songsmith Jake Thackray. Thackray’s sometimes bawdy sometimes satirical and often hilarious lyrics are delivered in a lugubrious baritone and underpinned by a strong Yorkshire accent that led him to be dubbed the “North Country Noel Coward”. In his Remember Bethlehem heshows a more tender side and tells a story devoid of expletives and cutting social commentary of a “shabby little country girl” completely broken by the ardours of her journey arriving in Bethlehem as a distrusted foreigner to give birth to baby boy called Jesus. Whatstruck and moved me most about Thackray’s telling of the Nativity Narrative is the way he normalizes Mary. Rather than retrospectively beatifying her - telling her story full in the knowledge of the extraordinary thing she did (as most nativity stories do) – Thackray’s portrayal of her as young afraid and cold makes her achievement all the more astonishing. Indeed so out-of-the-ordinary is the gift given by this apparently ordinary girl that no one and no thing can ever forget it: “Even the stony old hills […] your shaggy old trees […] the sulky old sun Remembers Bethlehem.” My carol of the same name adapts a similar approach to telling Mary’s story. Musically I have only thinly veiled my affection for Peter Warlock’s miniature masterpiece Bethlehem Down and evidence of this can be seen not only in the choice of key triple metre and strophic setting but also in the resemblance of some of the cadential figures. A final strand of influence comes once more from Yorkshire and specifically Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre. My wife is a literature scholar and pointed out to me the parallels between Mary’s plight in Thackray’s story and a scene from the novel in which Jane is lost up on the moors. Through her distrust of man she feels outcast and

Noël! 3 is an exciting collection of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed-voice choirs, from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. The contents range from the Baroque to the present: familiar settings of traditional and lesser-known carols through the ages to Howells, Berkeley and Warlock, and works by today's composers including Richard Rodney Bennett, Paul Mealor, John Tavener, Francis Pott and Richard Allain. Mixed-voice choirs of all levels will enjoy these new arrangements of favourite carols as well as stimulating original works for the Christmas season. / Choeur SATB Et Orgue (Ou Piano)

Sociable Songs-The first book of a fabulous series presenting the best of Peter Warlock’s Choral Music. Warlock is a treasure of British song-writing and this volume contains a fantastic collection of sociable songs ideal for encouraging sing-songs and parties! Nine songs for Voice and Piano accompaniment with optional Unison or two-part chorus. Humorous entertaining moving and sometimes vulgar songs Warlock has such a way with words phrasing and melody and these songs are sure to delight singers players and audiences.