byDAVIDPOWNALL
With music by Gesualdo. Peter Warlock and Stephen Boxer
The Paines Plough production of a musical rewriting of the lives of two composers, Carlo Gesualdo. an Italian Prince, contemporary of Shakespeare. who composed motets and madrigals from the death of his first wife in 1590 to his own death in 1613; and Philip Hesel tine, alias Peter Warlock , born 1894, who committed suicide in 1930 after a career as music critic and composer.