Warlock's As I Sat Under a Sycamore Tree

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For all its brevity, there's something very engaging about Peter Warlock's carol As I Sat Under Sycamore Tree. It has a charmingly sparky accompaniment and truly magical moment when the accompaniment drops out on words "And all the bells on Earth did ring" and the choir divides and harmonises.

This version, from the Allegri Singers, features an organ-only accompaniment but there is also a fine orchestral version featuring the Bornemouth SO under Hilary Davan Wetton on the Naxos album In Terra Pax