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Peter Warlock
 

Capriol (Suite for Strings)
performed Nov 14, 2004

`Tragedy' is a much-abused word. But the Death of Philip Heseltine (whom an even wider public knew as Peter Warlock) was a tragedy. An exceptionally gifted artist, in the full vigor of healthy manhood, suddenly silenced. Incalculable potentialities unfulfilled. Such a loss must never be mourned. There is nothing here in which one can find consolation.

- Bernard van Dieren

"Peter Warlock" was a pen name for composer, scholar, and critic Philip Heseltine (1894-1930), who is perhaps most widely remembered for his biography of English composer Frederick Delius. His compositions include a large number of songs, choral works, part songs, instrumental works, and arrangements. Warlock was self-taught in all his endeavors. He cut short is brilliant career by committing suicide at the age of 37. His works were kept in the public eye mostly via English choral ensembles, but the late 20th century saw a revival of Warlock's music that endures today.

A tireless student of the songs and dances of the late Renaissance and early Baroque (which overlapped more than any subsequent musical periods), Peter Warlock was naturally drawn to Thoinot Arbeau's famous Orchesographie - a collection of dances, with instructions, first published in 1588. Warlock selected six dances to orchestrate for strings, creating his Capriol Suite.

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