Moeran and Warlock - Choral Works

E.J. MOERAN & Peter WARLOCK. 

Choral Works

The Finzi Singers
Paul Spicer



Ernest John Moeran:
   

Songs of Springtime

Seven Elizabethan poems set for Mixed Chorus

Phyllida and Corydon

Choral Suite

Peter Warlock:
   

A Cornish Carol

I Saw a Fair Maiden

Benedicamus Domino

The Full Heart

The Rich Cavalcade

Corpus Christi

All the Flowers of the Spring

As Dew in Aprylle

Bethlehem Down

A Cornish Carol
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“The Peter Warlock of the evergreen CapriolSuite and the boisterous songs seems a world away from the introverted and intense artist of these unaccompanied choral carols. Perhaps Warlock's real genius was an ability to create profound expression in short musical structures, but even the more outgoing pieces – the joyful Benedicamus Domino and the Cornish ChristmasCarol, with its gentle hint at 'The First Nowell' – have an artistic integrity which raises them high above the level of the syrup of modern-day carol settings. Given performances as openly sincere and sensitive as these, few could be unmoved. In the two Moeran madrigal suites there's an indefinable Englishness – the result of a deep awareness of tradition and love of the countryside. The Finzi Singers' warm-toned, richly expressive voices capture the very essence of this uniquely lovely music.”