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Peter Warlock : Capriol Suite
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Henning Kraggerud, leader
From The Risør Chamber Music Festival 2012
Capriol Suite (1926)
1.Basse-Danse, Allegro moderato, D minor 0:00
2.Pavane, Allegretto, ma un poco lento, G minor 1:24
3.Tordion, Con moto, G minor 3:26
4.Bransles, Presto, G minor 4:33
5.Pieds-en-l'air, Andante tranquillo, G major 6:37
6.Mattachins (Sword Dance), Allegro con brio, F major 9:30
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published: 08 Oct 2012
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Peter Warlock - An Old Song (1917) for Orchestra
Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930), known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.
An Old Song (1917)
Northern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox
The "old song" in question is "There was anes a May" (Lowlands Scottish folk song). It is introduced by the oboe at rehearsal letter A.
published: 01 Jul 2018
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VOCES8: Bethlehem Down by Peter Warlock
VOCES8 sing 'Bethlehem Down' by Peter Warlock at the VOCES8 Centre in London.
TEXT by Bruce Blunt
When He is King we will give him the King's gifts,
Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown,
"Beautiful robes", said the young girl to Joseph
Fair with her first-born on Bethlehem Down.
Bethlehem Down is full of the starlight
Winds for the spices, and stars for the gold,
Mary for sleep, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold.
When He is King they will clothe Him in grave-sheets,
Myrrh for embalming, and wood for a crown,
He that lies now in the white arms of Mary
Sleeping so lightly on Bethlehem Down.
Here He has peace and a short while for dreaming,
Close-huddled oxen to keep Him from cold,
Mary for love, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fo...
published: 29 Dec 2022
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Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite (1926)
Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite (1926)
00:00 1. Basse-Danse. Allegro moderato
01:17 2. Pavane. Allegretto, ma un poco lento
03:40 3. Tordion. Con moto
04:57 4. Bransles. Presto
07:30 5. Pieds-en-l'air. Andante tranquillo
10:38 6. Mattachins (Sword Dance)
Singolo orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Питер Уорлок - "Каприоль-сюита"
Оркестр "Синголо" под управлением Ярослава Забояркина
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published: 13 Aug 2019
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Peter Warlock - The Curlew, after W. B. Yeats (1920-22)
The Curlew (1920-22)
A song cycle by British composer Peter Warlock, a.k.a. Philip Arnold Heseltine (1894-1930), based on four poems by William Butler Yeats. "The Curlew" is scored for the unusual combination of voice, flute, cor anglais and string quartet.
Text:
I. He reproves of the Curlew (from "The Wind among the Reeds"; 1899)
O Curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the waters in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
Passion-dimm'd eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind.
II. The lover mourns for the loss of love (from "The Wind among the Reeds")
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,
I had a beautiful friend
And dreamed that the old despair
Would end in love in the end:
She looked in my heart one day
...
published: 10 Jan 2011
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Warlock Capriol Suite Partitura - Sheet
published: 06 May 2018
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Peter Warlock - Balulalow
Peter Warlock was the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930), a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.
Balulalow
Choir of St. John's College conducted by George Guest
Balulalow is old Scottish, meaning Lullaby.
published: 13 Jul 2015
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Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite (COMPLETE) for String Orchestra
Played by the European Community Chamber Orchestra conducted by Eivind Aadland.
Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock 1894-1930) was born in London and lost his father as a child. His mother remarried and returned to her native Wales, living at Cefn Bryntalch Hall, Abermule, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, the family home of her second husband, Walter Buckley Jones. Philip's education was mainly classical, including studies at Eton College, at Christ Church, Oxford (for one year), and at University College London (one term). In music, he was mostly self-taught, studying composition on his own from the works of composers he admired, notably Frederick Delius, Roger Quilter and Bernard van Dieren. Nevertheless, one of the masters at Eton, Colin Taylor, had introduced him to some of the modern mast...
published: 09 Mar 2010
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Sleep - Peter Warlock (A Very Beautiful Song)
Sleep - Peter Warlock
published: 28 Jun 2012
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Great Composers: Peter Warlock
A look at a critic-turned-composer.
This was a viewer request from YouTuber Elemer Balazs Jr. See the current request queue at http://lentovivace.com/requestqueue.html.
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Music:
- Philip “Peter Warlock” Heseltine: Capriol Suite, arranged for solo piano by Maurice Jacobson and performed by Chris Breemer
[free recording courtesy pianosociety.com]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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published: 01 Feb 2018
10:44
Peter Warlock : Capriol Suite
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Henning Kraggerud, leader
From The Risør Chamber Music Festival 2012
Capriol Suite (1926)
1.Basse-Danse, Allegro moderato, D m...
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Henning Kraggerud, leader
From The Risør Chamber Music Festival 2012
Capriol Suite (1926)
1.Basse-Danse, Allegro moderato, D minor 0:00
2.Pavane, Allegretto, ma un poco lento, G minor 1:24
3.Tordion, Con moto, G minor 3:26
4.Bransles, Presto, G minor 4:33
5.Pieds-en-l'air, Andante tranquillo, G major 6:37
6.Mattachins (Sword Dance), Allegro con brio, F major 9:30
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https://wn.com/Peter_Warlock_Capriol_Suite
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Henning Kraggerud, leader
From The Risør Chamber Music Festival 2012
Capriol Suite (1926)
1.Basse-Danse, Allegro moderato, D minor 0:00
2.Pavane, Allegretto, ma un poco lento, G minor 1:24
3.Tordion, Con moto, G minor 3:26
4.Bransles, Presto, G minor 4:33
5.Pieds-en-l'air, Andante tranquillo, G major 6:37
6.Mattachins (Sword Dance), Allegro con brio, F major 9:30
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- published: 08 Oct 2012
- views: 837725
7:09
Peter Warlock - An Old Song (1917) for Orchestra
Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930), known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, w...
Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930), known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.
An Old Song (1917)
Northern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox
The "old song" in question is "There was anes a May" (Lowlands Scottish folk song). It is introduced by the oboe at rehearsal letter A.
https://wn.com/Peter_Warlock_An_Old_Song_(1917)_For_Orchestra
Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930), known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.
An Old Song (1917)
Northern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox
The "old song" in question is "There was anes a May" (Lowlands Scottish folk song). It is introduced by the oboe at rehearsal letter A.
- published: 01 Jul 2018
- views: 4897
4:34
VOCES8: Bethlehem Down by Peter Warlock
VOCES8 sing 'Bethlehem Down' by Peter Warlock at the VOCES8 Centre in London.
TEXT by Bruce Blunt
When He is King we will give him the King's gifts,
Myrrh for...
VOCES8 sing 'Bethlehem Down' by Peter Warlock at the VOCES8 Centre in London.
TEXT by Bruce Blunt
When He is King we will give him the King's gifts,
Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown,
"Beautiful robes", said the young girl to Joseph
Fair with her first-born on Bethlehem Down.
Bethlehem Down is full of the starlight
Winds for the spices, and stars for the gold,
Mary for sleep, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold.
When He is King they will clothe Him in grave-sheets,
Myrrh for embalming, and wood for a crown,
He that lies now in the white arms of Mary
Sleeping so lightly on Bethlehem Down.
Here He has peace and a short while for dreaming,
Close-huddled oxen to keep Him from cold,
Mary for love, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold.
https://wn.com/Voces8_Bethlehem_Down_By_Peter_Warlock
VOCES8 sing 'Bethlehem Down' by Peter Warlock at the VOCES8 Centre in London.
TEXT by Bruce Blunt
When He is King we will give him the King's gifts,
Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown,
"Beautiful robes", said the young girl to Joseph
Fair with her first-born on Bethlehem Down.
Bethlehem Down is full of the starlight
Winds for the spices, and stars for the gold,
Mary for sleep, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold.
When He is King they will clothe Him in grave-sheets,
Myrrh for embalming, and wood for a crown,
He that lies now in the white arms of Mary
Sleeping so lightly on Bethlehem Down.
Here He has peace and a short while for dreaming,
Close-huddled oxen to keep Him from cold,
Mary for love, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold.
- published: 29 Dec 2022
- views: 111986
13:27
Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite (1926)
Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite (1926)
00:00 1. Basse-Danse. Allegro moderato
01:17 2. Pavane. Allegretto, ma un poco lento
03:40 3. Tordion. Con moto
04:57 4. B...
Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite (1926)
00:00 1. Basse-Danse. Allegro moderato
01:17 2. Pavane. Allegretto, ma un poco lento
03:40 3. Tordion. Con moto
04:57 4. Bransles. Presto
07:30 5. Pieds-en-l'air. Andante tranquillo
10:38 6. Mattachins (Sword Dance)
Singolo orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Питер Уорлок - "Каприоль-сюита"
Оркестр "Синголо" под управлением Ярослава Забояркина
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https://wn.com/Peter_Warlock_Capriol_Suite_(1926)
Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite (1926)
00:00 1. Basse-Danse. Allegro moderato
01:17 2. Pavane. Allegretto, ma un poco lento
03:40 3. Tordion. Con moto
04:57 4. Bransles. Presto
07:30 5. Pieds-en-l'air. Andante tranquillo
10:38 6. Mattachins (Sword Dance)
Singolo orchestra conducted by Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Питер Уорлок - "Каприоль-сюита"
Оркестр "Синголо" под управлением Ярослава Забояркина
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- published: 13 Aug 2019
- views: 27282
22:09
Peter Warlock - The Curlew, after W. B. Yeats (1920-22)
The Curlew (1920-22)
A song cycle by British composer Peter Warlock, a.k.a. Philip Arnold Heseltine (1894-1930), based on four poems by William Butler Yeats. "...
The Curlew (1920-22)
A song cycle by British composer Peter Warlock, a.k.a. Philip Arnold Heseltine (1894-1930), based on four poems by William Butler Yeats. "The Curlew" is scored for the unusual combination of voice, flute, cor anglais and string quartet.
Text:
I. He reproves of the Curlew (from "The Wind among the Reeds"; 1899)
O Curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the waters in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
Passion-dimm'd eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind.
II. The lover mourns for the loss of love (from "The Wind among the Reeds")
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,
I had a beautiful friend
And dreamed that the old despair
Would end in love in the end:
She looked in my heart one day
And saw your image was there;
She has gone weeping away.
III. The withering of the boughs (from "In the Seven Woods"; 1904)
I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds:
'Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will,
I long for your merry and tender and pitiful words,
For the roads are unending, and there is no place to my mind.'
The honey-pale moon lay low on the sleepy hill,
And I fell asleep upon lonely Echtge or streams.
[Refrain]
No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.
I know of the leafy paths the witches take
Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake;
I know where a dim moon drifts,
where the Danaan kind
Wind and unwind their dances when the light grows cool
On the island lawns, their feet where the pale foam gleams.
[Refrain]
I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round
Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.
A king and a queen are wandering there,
and the sound
Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind
With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by;
I know, and the curlew and peewit on Echtge of streams.
[Refrain]
V. He hears the cry of the sedge (from "The Wind among the Reeds")
I wander by the edge
Of this desolate lake
Where wind cries in the sedge:
Until the axle break
That keeps the stars in their round,
And hands hurl in the deep
The banners of East and West,
And the girdle of light is unbound,
Your breast will not lie by the breast
Of your beloved in sleep.
Tenor: James Gilchrist
Flute: Michael Cox
Cor anglais: Gareth Hulse
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
https://wn.com/Peter_Warlock_The_Curlew,_After_W._B._Yeats_(1920_22)
The Curlew (1920-22)
A song cycle by British composer Peter Warlock, a.k.a. Philip Arnold Heseltine (1894-1930), based on four poems by William Butler Yeats. "The Curlew" is scored for the unusual combination of voice, flute, cor anglais and string quartet.
Text:
I. He reproves of the Curlew (from "The Wind among the Reeds"; 1899)
O Curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the waters in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
Passion-dimm'd eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind.
II. The lover mourns for the loss of love (from "The Wind among the Reeds")
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,
I had a beautiful friend
And dreamed that the old despair
Would end in love in the end:
She looked in my heart one day
And saw your image was there;
She has gone weeping away.
III. The withering of the boughs (from "In the Seven Woods"; 1904)
I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds:
'Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will,
I long for your merry and tender and pitiful words,
For the roads are unending, and there is no place to my mind.'
The honey-pale moon lay low on the sleepy hill,
And I fell asleep upon lonely Echtge or streams.
[Refrain]
No boughs have withered because of the wintry wind;
The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.
I know of the leafy paths the witches take
Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake;
I know where a dim moon drifts,
where the Danaan kind
Wind and unwind their dances when the light grows cool
On the island lawns, their feet where the pale foam gleams.
[Refrain]
I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round
Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.
A king and a queen are wandering there,
and the sound
Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind
With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by;
I know, and the curlew and peewit on Echtge of streams.
[Refrain]
V. He hears the cry of the sedge (from "The Wind among the Reeds")
I wander by the edge
Of this desolate lake
Where wind cries in the sedge:
Until the axle break
That keeps the stars in their round,
And hands hurl in the deep
The banners of East and West,
And the girdle of light is unbound,
Your breast will not lie by the breast
Of your beloved in sleep.
Tenor: James Gilchrist
Flute: Michael Cox
Cor anglais: Gareth Hulse
Fitzwilliam String Quartet
- published: 10 Jan 2011
- views: 24309
2:21
Peter Warlock - Balulalow
Peter Warlock was the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930), a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which re...
Peter Warlock was the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930), a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.
Balulalow
Choir of St. John's College conducted by George Guest
Balulalow is old Scottish, meaning Lullaby.
https://wn.com/Peter_Warlock_Balulalow
Peter Warlock was the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 1894 – 17 December 1930), a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.
Balulalow
Choir of St. John's College conducted by George Guest
Balulalow is old Scottish, meaning Lullaby.
- published: 13 Jul 2015
- views: 23857
10:20
Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite (COMPLETE) for String Orchestra
Played by the European Community Chamber Orchestra conducted by Eivind Aadland.
Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock 1894-1930) was born in London and lost his fat...
Played by the European Community Chamber Orchestra conducted by Eivind Aadland.
Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock 1894-1930) was born in London and lost his father as a child. His mother remarried and returned to her native Wales, living at Cefn Bryntalch Hall, Abermule, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, the family home of her second husband, Walter Buckley Jones. Philip's education was mainly classical, including studies at Eton College, at Christ Church, Oxford (for one year), and at University College London (one term). In music, he was mostly self-taught, studying composition on his own from the works of composers he admired, notably Frederick Delius, Roger Quilter and Bernard van Dieren. Nevertheless, one of the masters at Eton, Colin Taylor, had introduced him to some of the modern masters which made a marked impression on him. He was also strongly influenced by Elizabethan music and poetry as well as by Celtic culture (he studied the Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Manx, and Breton languages). It was the move to Wales, occasioned by his mother's remarriage, that was the spark for this; only the working classes spoke Welsh but Philip, never one to shy away from the unconventional, set about learning it with vigour.
Heseltine wrote his earliest mature compositions, published to critical acclaim under the newly adopted pseudonym Peter Warlock, following his sojourn in Ireland of 1917-1918. They were followed by a period of concentration on musical journalism; for a while, he was the editor of the musical magazine The Sackbut. His most prolific period, both as a composer and author, was in the early 1920s when he withdrew from the financial and social pressures of London to his mother's and stepfather's house, "Cefn Bryntalch", in Montgomeryshire, mid-Wales, where he wrote some of his finest songs, finally completing his song-cycle The Curlew to poems by W. B. Yeats. During this period he also met Bartók, who visited him while returning from a concert in Aberystwyth arranged by Professor Walford Davies, and whose influence can perhaps be seen in The Curlew.
Between 1925 and 1929, following a quiet period, Warlock and his colleague E. J. Moeran led a wild, boozy life in Eynsford, Kent, having to deal with the local police more than once. For Warlock, however, this was one of the most fruitful periods of his life, but by the end of the 1920s his creativity was waning and he had to support himself with music criticism again. He was suffering from severe depression, but whether his death from gas poisoning at the age of 36 was suicide or an accident is not known for certain. His cat had been put out of the room before he died, perhaps to spare it. There is a third possibility: Warlock had made Bernard van Dieren his heir in his will, inspiring claims by Warlock's son Nigel Heseltine that van Dieren had murdered his father. An intriguing figure, Warlock has served to inspire several characters in English-language literature, among them: Coleman in
Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay (1923), Roy Hartle in Osbert Sitwell's Those Were the Days (1938), Giles Revelstoke in Robertson Davies' A Mixture of Frailties (1958) and Maclintick in Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960) by Anthony Powell. D. H. Lawrence's use of Warlock as the model for Julius Halliday in novel Women in Love (1920) led to a threat of a lawsuit, followed by an out of court settlement. He appears in person, with Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, madrigalist and uxoricide, in the play Music to Murder By by David Pownall. His name is surrounded by rumours of involvement with the occult, an interest which he shared with others in the bohemian world of the early 20th century — for example the novelist Mary Butts asserted that it was Warlock who initially introduced her to these subjects. Other less conventional aspects of Peter Warlock's life include experimentation with cannabis tincture, a gift for the composition of obscene limericks and a marked interest in flagellation.
https://wn.com/Peter_Warlock_Capriol_Suite_(Complete)_For_String_Orchestra
Played by the European Community Chamber Orchestra conducted by Eivind Aadland.
Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock 1894-1930) was born in London and lost his father as a child. His mother remarried and returned to her native Wales, living at Cefn Bryntalch Hall, Abermule, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, the family home of her second husband, Walter Buckley Jones. Philip's education was mainly classical, including studies at Eton College, at Christ Church, Oxford (for one year), and at University College London (one term). In music, he was mostly self-taught, studying composition on his own from the works of composers he admired, notably Frederick Delius, Roger Quilter and Bernard van Dieren. Nevertheless, one of the masters at Eton, Colin Taylor, had introduced him to some of the modern masters which made a marked impression on him. He was also strongly influenced by Elizabethan music and poetry as well as by Celtic culture (he studied the Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Manx, and Breton languages). It was the move to Wales, occasioned by his mother's remarriage, that was the spark for this; only the working classes spoke Welsh but Philip, never one to shy away from the unconventional, set about learning it with vigour.
Heseltine wrote his earliest mature compositions, published to critical acclaim under the newly adopted pseudonym Peter Warlock, following his sojourn in Ireland of 1917-1918. They were followed by a period of concentration on musical journalism; for a while, he was the editor of the musical magazine The Sackbut. His most prolific period, both as a composer and author, was in the early 1920s when he withdrew from the financial and social pressures of London to his mother's and stepfather's house, "Cefn Bryntalch", in Montgomeryshire, mid-Wales, where he wrote some of his finest songs, finally completing his song-cycle The Curlew to poems by W. B. Yeats. During this period he also met Bartók, who visited him while returning from a concert in Aberystwyth arranged by Professor Walford Davies, and whose influence can perhaps be seen in The Curlew.
Between 1925 and 1929, following a quiet period, Warlock and his colleague E. J. Moeran led a wild, boozy life in Eynsford, Kent, having to deal with the local police more than once. For Warlock, however, this was one of the most fruitful periods of his life, but by the end of the 1920s his creativity was waning and he had to support himself with music criticism again. He was suffering from severe depression, but whether his death from gas poisoning at the age of 36 was suicide or an accident is not known for certain. His cat had been put out of the room before he died, perhaps to spare it. There is a third possibility: Warlock had made Bernard van Dieren his heir in his will, inspiring claims by Warlock's son Nigel Heseltine that van Dieren had murdered his father. An intriguing figure, Warlock has served to inspire several characters in English-language literature, among them: Coleman in
Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay (1923), Roy Hartle in Osbert Sitwell's Those Were the Days (1938), Giles Revelstoke in Robertson Davies' A Mixture of Frailties (1958) and Maclintick in Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960) by Anthony Powell. D. H. Lawrence's use of Warlock as the model for Julius Halliday in novel Women in Love (1920) led to a threat of a lawsuit, followed by an out of court settlement. He appears in person, with Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, madrigalist and uxoricide, in the play Music to Murder By by David Pownall. His name is surrounded by rumours of involvement with the occult, an interest which he shared with others in the bohemian world of the early 20th century — for example the novelist Mary Butts asserted that it was Warlock who initially introduced her to these subjects. Other less conventional aspects of Peter Warlock's life include experimentation with cannabis tincture, a gift for the composition of obscene limericks and a marked interest in flagellation.
- published: 09 Mar 2010
- views: 273231
18:22
Great Composers: Peter Warlock
A look at a critic-turned-composer.
This was a viewer request from YouTuber Elemer Balazs Jr. See the current request queue at http://lentovivace.com/requestq...
A look at a critic-turned-composer.
This was a viewer request from YouTuber Elemer Balazs Jr. See the current request queue at http://lentovivace.com/requestqueue.html.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
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Music:
- Philip “Peter Warlock” Heseltine: Capriol Suite, arranged for solo piano by Maurice Jacobson and performed by Chris Breemer
[free recording courtesy pianosociety.com]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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https://wn.com/Great_Composers_Peter_Warlock
A look at a critic-turned-composer.
This was a viewer request from YouTuber Elemer Balazs Jr. See the current request queue at http://lentovivace.com/requestqueue.html.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
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Music:
- Philip “Peter Warlock” Heseltine: Capriol Suite, arranged for solo piano by Maurice Jacobson and performed by Chris Breemer
[free recording courtesy pianosociety.com]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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Contact Information:
Questions and comments can be directed to:
nerdofclassical [at] gmail.com
Tumblr:
classical-nerd.tumblr.com
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All images and audio in this video are for educational purposes only and are not intended as copyright infringement. If you have a copyright concern, please contact me using the above information.
- published: 01 Feb 2018
- views: 4771