The Constant Lambert String
Orchestra : Capriol Suite (Settings of six tunes from Jehan Tabourot 's treatise on dancing 1588)—
Basse Danse ; Pavane ; Tordion ; Bransles; Pieds-en l'air ;
Mattachms Parry Jones (tenor): The Passionate Shepherd; As ever I saw; Sleep
The Constant Lambert String
Orchestra: Serenade for Frederick Delius on his sixtieth birthday
When Peter Warlock died in 1930 at the age of thirty-six, Britain lost one of her most gifted composers.
He had already proved himself a master of song, some examples of which will live as long as the art ot music itself.
Warlock wrote only two notable works for orchestra, the Serenade- for strings (in honour of Dehus's sixtieth birthday) and the Capriol Suite, also for strings, which is b.ased on tunes from a sixteenth-century dancing book by a priest who took the name of Arbeau. Both these works display to the full Warlock's exquisite workmanship and delicate fancy.