A short while for dreaming: Choral works by Peter Warlock

A short while for dreaming: Choral works by Peter Warlock

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Blossom Street
Hilary Campbell (director)


Making their Resonus debut, is the renowned young professional chamber choir Blossom Street with their director Hilary Campbell.

The name Peter Warlock (nom de plume of Philip Heseltine (1894-1930)) is synonymous with both English song and breathtakingly beautiful carols for choir. Here Blossom Street present a selection of Warlock's best-known carols alongside a number of lesser-known part-songs, with no fewer than six world premiere recordings.

Immediately apparent is the huge breadth of range seen throughout these exquisite miniatures – from the dark despair of The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi to the uproarious sociable songs for men's voices, and the imagery contained in The Night to the haunting stillness of Warlock's most frequently heard work Bethlehem Down – Warlock's lyrical and harmonically rich sound world is always evident.

Album Booklet (PDF)

Tracklist

1. As dew in Aprylle

2. The Night (arr. Fred Tomlinson)

3. My Own Country (arr. Fred Tomlinson)

4. Benedicamus Domino

5. The Full Heart

6. The Spring of the Year

7. Yarmouth Fair (arr. C. Armstrong Gibbs)

8. Call for the Robin-Rebreast and the Wren

9. The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi

10. The Bayley Berith the Bell Away

11. Corpus Christi

12. A Cornish Christmas Carol

13. Lullaby

14. I saw a fair maiden

15. Ha'nacker Mill

16. One More River

17. The Lady's Birthday

18. A Cornish Carol

19. The Rich Cavalcade

20. Bethlehem Down

'[...] a programme offering a genuine expansion in our understanding of Warlock [...] Gorgeous sound; highly engaging, dedicated performances.'

- BBC Music Magazine

'[...] a programme offering a genuine expansion in our understanding of Warlock [...] Gorgeous sound; highly engaging, dedicated performances.'
BBC Music Magazine

'[...] Blossom Street find the blended intensity and control that this music demands'
Gramophone

'Campbell and her chamber-sized choir Blossom Street give committed readings of this repertoire, which time and again reveals Warlock's highly attuned sensitivity to text'
Choir and Organ

'[...] everything in this collection is enjoyable. Credit for this must go to Hilary Campbell and her Blossom Street singers who sound lovely'
Cross Rhythms

'This being Peter Warlock, there's nothing prim and proper - The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi is really spooky and the performances match the music. The recording is good, too'
MusicWeb International

'Blossom Sreet are a choir of young voices and this comes over very clearly in the freshness of this lovely recording [...] a valuable addition to the repertoire'
Lark Reviews

Credits
© 2014 Resonus Limited
Ⓟ 2014 Resonus Limited
Catalogue No. RES10129
Producer, engineer & editor: Adam Binks
EAN: 5060262790311
Cover image: Supermoon (2013) by Cedric Thornton