Peter Warlock: Songs: Medium Voice: Vocal Album

Volume Viii - Songs 1928-1930-The Peter Warlock Critical Edition series represents a treasure trove of English song.This the eighth volume focuses upon songs for the Medium Voice from the period 1928-1930. The songs of Peter Warlock are inspiring and intriguing pieces that rank him with the greatest English composers of all time. This is truly a superb collection of some of the best of his work painstakingly and meticulously edited by Michael Pilkington. This revised Critical Edition is an accurate faithful and exhaustive volume that maintains Warlock’s original keys and intentions. With fifteen songs each featuring an in-depth commentary this is a tremendousacquisition for any enthusiasts of English song.

Volume Vii - Songs 1927-1928-The Peter Warlock Critical Edition series represents a treasure trove of English song.This the seventh volume focuses upon songs for the Medium Voice from the period 1927-1928. The songs of Peter Warlock are inspiring and intriguing pieces that rank him with the greatest English composers of all time. This is truly a superb collection of some of the best of his work painstakingly and meticulously edited by Michael Pilkington. This revised Critical Edition is an accurate faithful and exhaustive volume that maintains Warlock’s original keys and intentions. With twelve songs each featuring an in-depth commentary this is a tremendous acquisitionfor any enthusiasts of English song.

Volume 5 - Songs 1923-1924-The critically and editorially authoritative editions of the songs of Peter Warlock. This fifth collection spans the years of 1923 and 1924 containing eleven groups of songs for voice and Piano by Warlock including Candlelight a cycle of nursary rhymes. Edited and introduced by Fred Tomlinson.

Volume 4 - Songs 1922-1923-This society edition contains fourteen songs chronologically arranged and each with a detailed preface giving the relevant historical background to the composition. Warlock was very pedantic about original keys. He deplored transpositions but bowed to their necessity in performing editions. In this edition keys have been chosen to suit the medium voice. This generally means a range of about an octave and a fifth with nothing below B flat and nothing above F sharp/G flat.