Charting the road from the likes of Vaughan Williams and Delius to Rock Island Line, Young maps the musical ley lines of the early British Twentieth Century fantastically skillfully, maintaining a tight narrative whilst digressing to all kinds of subjects worthy of detailed investigations in themselves.
He devotes a number of pages to the fascinating Peter Warlock, a fascinating dark maverick, who collected together music in folk and pagan traditions and produced a great many notable works of his own, including this, his arrangement of a fabled carol c1500. Jeff Buckley recorded his own variations of this of course on Grace.
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