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Cover of CDA66736 - Warlock: Songs
CDA66736

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Recording details: September 1994
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 1994
DISCID: 0D100F22
Total duration: 68 minutes 17 seconds

'Singer and song are ideally matched, pianist and piano part likewise, and the shade of Philip Heseltine should gain contentment' (Gramophone)

'Whether you collect tenors, English music or simply good singing, don't be without this' (BBC Music Magazine)

'Enthusiastically recommended' (Fanfare, USA)

'This is surely one of the best representations of Warlock on records' (American Record Guide)

Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
Songs
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)
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1
The wind from the West   Blow high, blow low  [2'46]
2
To the memory of a great singer   Bright is the ring of words  [1'44]
3
Take, O take those lips away  [1'59] English English
4
As ever I saw   She is gentle and also wise  [1'31]
5
The bayley berith the bell away   The maidens came when I was in my mother's bow'r  [2'38]
6
There is a lady sweet and kind  [1'40]
7
Lullaby   Golden slumbers kiss your eyes  [1'52]
8
Sweet content   Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?  [1'37]
9
Late summer   The fields are full of summer still  [1'55]
10
The singer   In the dim light of the golden lamp  [1'20]
11
Rest, sweet nymphs  [2'28]
12
Sleep   Come, sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving  [2'41] English
13
A sad song   Lay a garland on my hearse  [1'47] English
14
In an arbour green  [1'21]
15
Autumn twilight   The long september evening dies  [2'48]
Two Short songs
16
I held love's head  [1'25]
17
Thou gav'st me leave to kiss  [0'50]
18
Yarmouth fair   As I rode down to Yarmouth Fair  [1'56]  John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
19
Pretty ring time   It was a lover and his lass  [1'29]
Two Songs
20
A prayer to St Anthony of Padua   Saint Anthony whom I bear  [1'29]
21
The sick heart   O sick heart, be at rest!  [1'49]
22
Robin Goodfellow   And can the physician make sick men well?  [1'35]
23
Jillian of Berry   For Jillian of Berry she dwells on a hill  [0'39]
24
Fair and true   Lovely kind, and kindly loving  [2'37]
Three Belloc Songs English
25
Ha'nacker Mill   Sally is gone that was so kind  [2'41]
26
The night   Most Holy Night, that still dost keep  [2'05]
27
My own country   I shall go without companions  [2'32]
28
The first mercy   Ox and ass at Bethlehem  [3'04]
29
The lover's maze   O be still, be still, unquiet thoughts, and rest on love's adventer  [1'41]
30
Cradle song   Be still, my sweet sweeting, no longer do cry  [4'06]
31
Sigh no more, ladies  [1'10]
32
Passing by   There is a lady sweet and kind  [2'18]
33
The contented lover   Now sleep, and take thy rest  [1'37]
34
The fox   At The Fox Inn  [3'07]
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