Maltworms and Milkmaids: Warlock and the Orchestra

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a sugar rush is skilfully sidestepped thanks to some adroit programming that leavens the ‘merry England’ period charm with strategically placed antidote...the star of the album is Ben McAteer... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Aug 2023
Catalogue No: EMRCD080
Label: EM Records
Length: 73 minutes

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Warlock: As ever I saw

Work length1:41

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Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Anonymous
Ben McAteer
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: An Old Song

Work length6:40

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BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Mr Belloc's Fancy

Work length1:45

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Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Frederick Bye
Ben McAteer
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Captain Stratton's Fancy

Work length2:00

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Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Peter Hope
Ben McAteer
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Serenade (to Frederick Delius on his sixtieth birthday)

Work length8:42

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$2.60

BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Milkmaids

Work length2:32

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Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Henry Geehl
Ben McAteer
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Adam lay ybounden

Work length1:27

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Arr. for Choir & Orchestra by Reginald Jacques
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Little Trotty Wagtail

Work length1:32

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Arr. for Choir & Orchestra by David Lane
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: The Birds

Work length1:52

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Arr. for Choir & Orchestra by Anonymous
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: The Countryman

Work length1:37

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Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Gerrard Williams
Ben McAteer
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Yarmouth Fair

Work length2:21

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Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Kenneth Regan
Ben McAteer
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Sorrow's Lullaby

Work length4:59

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Nadine Benjamin, Ben McAteer
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: One More River

Work length2:09

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Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Anonymous
Ben McAteer
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Peter Warlock, Ernest John Moeran: Maltworms

Work length2:28

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Ben McAteer
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Excerpt, Warlock: Capriol Suite

Work length10:48

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BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: A Sad Song

Work length2:23

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Nadine Benjamin
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Pretty Ring Time

Work length1:36

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Nadine Benjamin
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: The First Mercy

Work length3:03

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Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Raymond Bennell
Nadine Benjamin
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Fill The Cup, Philip

Work length1:04

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Arr. for Choir & Orchestra by John Mitchell & Fred Tomlinson
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: The Cricketers of Hambledon

Work length3:53

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Arr. for Choir & Orchestra by John Mitchell & Fred Tomlinson
Ben McAteer
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: The First Mercy

Work length2:55

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Arr. for Choir & Orchestra by William Davies
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

Warlock: Three carols

Work length6:13

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Helen Neeves, Rebecca Lea
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill

No. 1, Tyrley, tyrlow

Track length2:02

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No. 2, Balulalow

Track length2:27

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No. 3, The Sycamore Tree

Track length1:44

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This important release by EM Records, including no fewer than seventeen world premiere recordings, contains all of Peter Warlock's music which involves the use of an orchestra. Its title alludes to two of his compelling interests: beer, and the opposite sex. A third interest was the revival of old music, as characterised by his suiteCapriol, for which, alongside his beautiful carols and some of his solo songs, he is best known.

Essentially a miniaturist, Warlock used an orchestra for ten other short works and a brass band for two more, all but two of them with voices. In addition, Warlock's various publishers authorised the issue of orchestral accompaniments for at least ten of his songs by other orchestrators, though all of these remained in manuscript until the recent research for this disc by the Peter Warlock Society has led to their emergence.

The works on this disc, largely composed in the 1920s, cover a wide range of moods, from the rumbustious tributes to drink inMr. Belloc's FancyandCaptain Stratton's Fancyto the sensibility ofThe First MercyandBalulalow. They illustrate Warlock's links both with English folk song and with contemporary continental angular harmonic developments. Overall, the works of few twentieth century composers convey such a sense both of tenderness and of exuberant enjoyment.

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November 2023

a sugar rush is skilfully sidestepped thanks to some adroit programming that leavens the ‘merry England’ period charm with strategically placed antidote...the star of the album is Ben McAteer whose agreeably lyrical baritone can effortlessly muster plenty of much-called-upon swagger and suggestive tongue-in-cheekery.

August 2023

McAteer is suitably hale and hearty in the rumbustious drinking-songs and Benjamin radiant in the more reflective numbers, whilst the BBC Singers bring real eloquence to the selection of carols. And the purely orchestral works (almost all with a pronounced French accent) are beautifully done, especially the Debussy-ish An Old Song and the Serenade composed for Delius's sixtieth birthday, which sounds as if it could easily have sprung from the pen of its dedicatee.

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