Peter Warlock:
Pretty Ring Time
The bayly berith the bell away
Autumn Twilight
Little trotty wagtail
Late Summer
Sleep
The Water Lily
The Magpie
The Birds
Balulalow
The Night
The First Mercy
adam lay ybounden
Bright is the ring of words
Romance
The Everlasting Voices
Queen Anne
And wilt thou le ave me thus
As ever I Saw
The Contented Lover
Fair and True

Frederick Howe:
Master Kilby
The Banks of Sweet Primroses
Bushes and Briars
Sweet William
Six Dukes Went A-Fishing
The Unquiet grave
Farewell, My Dearest Nancy
Geordie
My Boy Willie

This delightful recital of English songs brings together one of the form’s most distinctive and prolific composers, Peter Warlock, with a composer born in 1951 who continues very much in the tradition of the older composer – Frederick Howe whose selection of his own folksong arrangements dovetail neatly this aspect of Warlock’s output. Howe’s songs are receiving their world premier recordings. ‘Magpie’ by Warlock is also a world premier recording using the original text.

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Recording: Penn House, Buckinghamshire, 27–29 August 2020.