Globalti
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Driving to work I heard the Capriol Suite by Peter Warlock aka Philip Arnold Heseltine. The second movement in this short suite is absolutely stunning, you can hear it at around 1:25 here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdibDKnp7Mc
I was familiar with the tune and was trying to work out whether I was hearing a modern composer or somebody from the 16th century and my confusion was explained when I read up about Warlock and his obsession with Elizabethan music on Wikipedia. What an impulsive and troubled life he led. As always Wikipedia led me down several alleys including the possibility that Brian Sewell was Warlock's son, which would explain Sewell's odd manner. Warlock wrote his own epitaph:
Here lies Warlock the composer,
Who lived next door to Munn the grocer.
He died of drink and copulation,
A sad discredit to the nation.
Much of Warlock's brilliance seems to have been fuelled by alcohol but I wonder what would have happened if he and his bohemian pals had lived in the era of recreational drugs?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdibDKnp7Mc
I was familiar with the tune and was trying to work out whether I was hearing a modern composer or somebody from the 16th century and my confusion was explained when I read up about Warlock and his obsession with Elizabethan music on Wikipedia. What an impulsive and troubled life he led. As always Wikipedia led me down several alleys including the possibility that Brian Sewell was Warlock's son, which would explain Sewell's odd manner. Warlock wrote his own epitaph:
Here lies Warlock the composer,
Who lived next door to Munn the grocer.
He died of drink and copulation,
A sad discredit to the nation.
Much of Warlock's brilliance seems to have been fuelled by alcohol but I wonder what would have happened if he and his bohemian pals had lived in the era of recreational drugs?
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