Sir William Walton
Born: 29th March 1902, Oldham, England
Died: 8th March 1983, Ischia, Italy
Nationality: English
Sir William Turner Walton was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto, the First Symphony, and the British coronation marches Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre.
Born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of a musician, Walton was a chorister and then an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. On leaving the university, he was taken up by the literary Sitwell siblings, who provided him with a home and a cultural education.
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Music For Stage and Screen: Remastered Archive Recordings
Victoria Hopper, Herbert Farrar, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia String Orchestra, His Majesty's Theatre Chorus, His Majesty's Theatre Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Muir Mathieson, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir William Walton, Sir Arthur Bliss, Percy Fletcher, Sir Thomas Beecham
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Jascha Heifetz plays Walton, Saint-Saëns, Sinding & Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Jascha Heifetz (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, William Walton, William Steinberg, Alfred Wallenstein
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BBC Legends Volume 2 | Great recordings from the archive
David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Artur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau, Myra Hess, Andrés Segovia, Kirsten Flagstad, Géza Anda, Borodin Quartet, Victoria de los Angeles, Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Fournier, Walter Gieseking
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