Divine Art's Peter Warlock: Collected 78rpm Recordings is a two-disc collection of music by English composer Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine), and not of Warlock himself, who seems not to have ever ventured into the recording studio. The date range of these recordings stretches from 1925 to 1951 and the two discs are divided among instrumental works and vocal ones. Warlock himself, of course, died in 1930, so if his collections were limited only to items recorded in his lifetime it would be a short disc indeed, though six ...
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Divine Art's Peter Warlock: Collected 78rpm Recordings is a two-disc collection of music by English composer Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine), and not of Warlock himself, who seems not to have ever ventured into the recording studio. The date range of these recordings stretches from 1925 to 1951 and the two discs are divided among instrumental works and vocal ones. Warlock himself, of course, died in 1930, so if his collections were limited only to items recorded in his lifetime it would be a short disc indeed, though six of the vocal selections and John Barbirolli's version of Serenade for Strings do date from within his short lifetime.Warlock had a more extensive output than he is usually acknowledged for, but naturally during the 78 era only Warlock's most popular compositions were going to be recorded, and this leads to repetition: there are two Capriol Suites, two Serenades for Strings, three Captain Stratton's Fancies, and three Corpus Christis -- the songs The Fox and Sleep are heard twice...
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