The First Mercy

The First Mercy (1926) was originally a solo song and an early collaboration between Peter Warlock and Bruce Blunt, with whom he would soon after write perhaps his best-known choral work, Bethlehem Down.

Warlock arranged the carol for upper voices (SSA) & piano in 1927 but it was not until 1964 that the carol was arranged by Geoffry Russell-Smith for mixed voices & Piano. That arrangement is here restored to print in a newly-prepared edition.