Warlock: Pretty Ring Time

This page lists all recordings of Pretty Ring Time, by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock.

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Gramophone Magazine

Re-issue of the Month
January 2010

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Vaughan Williams & Warlock

Where riches is everlastingly

The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi

The Lady's Birthday

Pretty Ring Time

Autumn Twilight

Captain Stratton's Fancy

Dame Janet Baker & Ian Partridge

Music Group of London, King’s College Choir, Baccholian Singers & Guildford Cathedral Choir

“Classic 1970s recordings by the Partridge siblings, and such luminaries as Janet Craxton. On Wenlock Edge - chamber version - still sounds excellent, while the Warlock disc is distinctly special.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 *****

EMI British Composers - 9689392

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$11.49

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The Very Best of English Song

anon.:	The Willow Song
Balfe:	Come into the garden, Maud
Bishop:	Home, Sweet Home
Brahe:	Bless this House
Butterworth, G:	Loveliest of Trees
Byrd:	Lullaby, my sweet little baby Ye sacred muses
Carter, S:	Down Below
Dibdin:	Tom Bowling
Dowland:	Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597) Sorrow, stay Awake, sweet love Woeful heart Shall I sue? Me, me, and none but me Flow my teares (Lacrimæ)
Finzi:	Since we loved Rollicum-rorum
Gurney:	Down by the Salley Gardens Black Stitchel
Ireland:	The Salley Gardens Sea Fever
Johnson, R:	Where the bee sucks Full fathom five
Keel:	Trade Winds
Morley:	It was a lover and his lass O mistress mine
Mortimer:	The Smuggler's Song
Parry:	O mistress mine
Peel:	In Summertime on Bredon
Purcell:	Fairest Isle Music for a while, Z583 I attempt from love's sickness If music be the food of love An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193
Quilter:	Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley) Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson) Come away, death
Shield:	The Plough Boy
Stanford:	Drake's Drum The Old Superb
Swann, D:	The Hippopotamus Song (Mud, mud, glorious mud) A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) The Wart Hog
trad.:	The Foggy, Foggy Dew Greensleeves
Vaughan Williams:	Linden Lea The Lamb The Shepherd Silent Noon
Walton:	Popular Song from 'Façade'
Warlock:	Yarmouth Fair My Own Country Passing By Pretty Ring Time Balulalow
Woodforde-Finden:	Kashmiri Song

Ian Bostridge, Jonathan Lemalu, Janet Baker, Emma Kirkby, Thomas Allen, Alfred Deller, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, et al

EMI - The Very Best of... - 5759262

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The Very Best of Janet Baker

Bach, J S:	Bereite dich Zion (from Christmas Oratorio, BWV248)
Brahms:	Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op. 91 No. 2
Britten:	Corpus Christi Carol
Duparc:	L'Invitation au voyage
Duruflé:	Requiem, Op. 9: Pie Jesu
Elgar:	Sea Pictures, Op. 37 The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 - The Angel's Farewell
Fauré:	Two Songs, Op. 83 Clair de Lune, Op. 46 No. 2
Handel:	Messiah: He was despised
Mahler:	Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)
Mendelssohn:	Elijah: O rest in the Lord Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2
Schubert:	Ave Maria, D839 Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118 Wiegenlied, D498 Die Forelle, D550 Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774 An die Musik D547 An Sylvia, D891 Nacht und Träume, D827 Heidenröslein, D257 Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)
Schumann:	Mondnacht (No. 5 from Liederkreis, Op. 39) Du Ring an meinem Finger' (No. 4 from Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42)
Strauss, R:	Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4 Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4
Vaughan Williams:	Linden Lea
Warlock:	Pretty Ring Time

Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

One of this country’s finest and most popular singers, Dame Janet Baker has a special place in the hearts of music-lovers throughout the land. Since making her Covent Garden and New York debuts in 1966 she has become synonymous with a wide range of much-loved baroque and romantic repertoire. Janet Baker was made a Dame 25 years ago. Here, for the first time, EMI have gathered together some of her most memorable performances on one double CD.

EMI - The Very Best of... - 5750692

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Peter Warlock: Collected 78rpm Recordings

Recorded 1925-51, digitally remastered.

Campion:	There is a Garden in her face (arr. Warlock) John Goss (baritone), Diana Poulton (lute)
Dowland:	Flow not so fast, ye fountains (arr. Warlock) John Goss (baritone), Diana Poulton (lute)
Ferrabosco, A II:	O eyes, O mortal stars (arr. Warlock) John Goss (baritone), Diana Poulton (lute) Come, my Celia (arr. Warlock) John Goss (baritone), Diana Poulton (lute)
Purcell:	Fantazia (arr. Warlock) Pasquier Trio Fantazia (arr. Warlock) Griller String Quartet
Warlock:	Capriol Suite London Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Bernard Serenade for strings NGS Chamber Orchestra, John Barbirolli Capriol Suite (arr. for violin & piano by Joseph Szigeti) Josef Szigeti (violin), Nikita Magalov (piano) Serenade for strings Constant Lambert String Orchestra, Constant Lambert Capriol Suite Constant Lambert String Orchestra, Constant Lambert The Curlew René Soames (tenor), Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano) Aeolian String Quartet Captain Stratton's Fancy Peter Dawson (bass-baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Oh good ale John Goss (baritone), Diana Poulton (lute) Corpus Christi The English Singers Sleep John Armstrong (baritone) International String Quartet Chopcherry John Armstrong (baritone) International String Quartet The Fox Parry Jones (tenor) Sleep Parry Jones (tenor) Take, O take those lips away Parry Jones (tenor) Sweet and kind Parry Jones (tenor) As ever I saw Parry Jones (tenor) The Passionate Shepherd Parry Jones (tenor) Corpus Christi Ann Wood (mezzo-soprano), Peter Pears (tenor) BBC Chorus, Leslie Woodgate Six Nursery Jingles Cecil Cope (bass) Milkmaids Roy Henderson (baritone), Eric Griffen (piano) Captain Stratton's Fancy Roy Henderson (baritone), Eric Griffen (piano) Sigh no more, ladies Roy Henderson (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Pretty Ring Time Roy Henderson (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Passing By Roy Henderson (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) My Own Country Roy Henderson (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Fair and True Roy Henderson (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Piggesnie Roy Henderson (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Sweet and twenty Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano) Consider Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano) Sleep Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano) Rest, sweet nymphs Truro Girls School The First Mercy Billy Neeley (treble) Corpus Christi Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano), René Soames (tenor) Festival Singers, Leslie Woodgate The Frostbound Wood Dennis Noble (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) The Fox Dennis Noble (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano) Captain Stratton's Fancy Oscar Natzke (bass)

Born in 1894, Peter Warlock was one of England’s great songwriters – described by Lennox Berkeley as one of the “most colourful talents in English 20th century music”. His output was prolific. In addition he was a distinguished editor and transcriber of a vast amount of early music as well as an author of several books and many articles, editor and music critic. He was very close to Delius – indeed was obsessed with Delius’s music and wrote a book about him, and also assisted Beecham in organising a Delius festival in 1929. He shared a cottage with fellow composer E. J. Moeran. He suffered bouts of depression and sadly he was found dead in his Chelsea flat in December 1930, of gas poisoning.

Gathered here are the original 78rpm recordings from the John Bishop Collection – divided into Orchestral and Chamber on CD1 and vocal items on CD2. John Bishop was one of the leading lights of the Peter Warlock Society, and all tracks have been remastered by Andrew Rose of Pristine Audio.

The booklet contains fascinating and informative notes, rare photographs and original 78rpm matrix numbers with recording dates.

Gramophone Magazine

Re-issue of the Month - January 2010

Divine Art Historic Sound - DDH27811

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$19.99

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The Curlew

Songs by Peter Warlock

Pretty Ring Time

My lady is a pretty one

Music when soft voices die

Yarmouth Fair

The Contented Lover

And wilt thou leave me thus?

Mourn no moe

Jillian of Berry

Captain Stratton's Fancy

Andrew Kennedy & Simon Lepper

Pavão Quartet

Landor Records - LAN279

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Songs of the British Isles

Bridge:	Go Not, Happy Day
Parry:	Love is a bable, Op. 152 No. 3
Quilter:	Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson) The fair house of joy To Daisies, Op. 8 No. 3 Over the mountains
Stanford:	The fairy lough A soft day
trad.:	Ma bonny lad The Keel Row Blow the wind southerly I have a bonnet trimmed with blue I will walk with my love The stuttering lovers Down by the Sally Gardens The lover's curse Kitty my love My boy Willie I know where I'm going The fidgety bairn Ca' the yowes O Waly Waly Come you not from Newcastle Willow, willow Have you seen but the whyte lillie grow Ye banks and braes Drink to me only with thine eyes
Vaughan Williams:	Silent Noon
Warlock:	Sleep Pretty Ring Time

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr / John Newmark / Frederick Stone (piano)

Recorded 1949-1952

Naxos Historical Great Singers - 8111081

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Songs by Peter Warlock

Warlock:

To the Memory of a Great Singer

Take, O take those lips away

As ever I saw

The bayley berith the bell away

There is a lady sweet and kind

Lullaby 'Golden slumbers kiss your eyes'

Thou gav'st me leave to kiss

Yarmouth Fair

Pretty Ring Time

A Prayer to St Anthony

The Wind from the WestBerry

John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano)

Hyperion - CDA66736

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Janet Baker

Berkeley, L:	Five Poems of W.H. Auden, Op. 53 (1958)
Britten:	Down by the Salley Gardens O can ye sew cushions? O Waly, Waly Come ye not from Newcastle?
Finzi:	Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18
Gluck:	O del mio dolce ardor
Lully:	Bois épais (from Amadis)
Marcello, B:	Il mio bel foco
Purcell:	Sleep, Adam, and take thy rest, Z195 Lord, what is man?, Z192
Vaughan Williams:	Let Beauty Awake Tired Silent Noon Linden Lea
Warlock:	Sleep Pretty Ring Time Rest, sweet nymphs The Jolly Shepherd