Browse: Orchestral, Symphonies, Walton (composer)
This page lists all classical by William Turner Walton (1902–83), in genre: Orchestral » Symphonies.
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Walton: Symphony No. 1 & Violin Concerto RecommendedTasmin Little (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Little's way with the virtuoso passages is a notch less headlong than [on her earlier recording], allowing the ear to savour her phenomenal accuracy, yet with no loss of fire...Gardner and the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2014
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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Walton: Symphony No. 2 & Cello Concerto RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
If a new Walton release can finally put paid to the notion that his music somehow 'went off' after his move to the Italian island of Ischia in 1956, then this must be it. And the performances... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2015, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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One notoriously tricky passage after another…is brought off with top-flight panache and accuracy…Brilliant precision in the Scherzo, successful avoidance of over-emotive juice-extraction in the... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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Walton, Symphony No. 1, Crown Imperial; Vaughan Williams: Suite For Four Hands Lynn Arnold & Charles Matthews
Murrill’s four-hand transcription, masterly though it may be, is something of a curate’s egg…But once the harmonic gears begin to grind in the first movement, the performance becomes compelling,... — More…
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British Music Collection - William Walton - The Centenary Edition
RecommendedRobert Cohen (cello), Tasmin Little (violin), Paul Neubauer (viola), Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Decca's four-disc Walton Edition offers consistently fine versions of all the composer's most important orchestral works, some of them unsurpassed, in full, brilliant sound. Andrew Litton, the... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2002, Budget Choice
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Building a Library, October 2013, First Choice
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Walton: Symphony No. 2 & Viola Concerto Roberto Diaz (viola)
New Haven Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton
The Second Symphony is a wonderfully crafted work in which Waltonian electricity is not of such a high voltage as in the First. Nonetheless, William Boughton draws from the New Haven orchestra... — More…
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Walton - Symphony in B flat minor & Belshazzar’s Feast Dennis Noble (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult's interpretation of the Symphony impresses by dint of its thrusting energy, logic and cumulative grip...there's no missing the infectious commitment here or in Belshazzar's Feast — More…
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Walton: Johannesburg Festival Overture, Viola Concerto & Symphony No. 2 Lars Anders Tomter (viola)
English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel
Tomter displays impressive control in the virtuosic Scherzo, but he sounds oddly cautious at more than one point where recklessness and sheer dash would be welcome, and his shifts of tempo are... — More…
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When Sir Colin Davis conducted Walton's First Symphony at the Barbican it was greeted by ecstatic reviews – and rightly so. It was as though critics had suddenly rediscovered this iconic work,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
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Walton - Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 1 Kurt Nikkanen (violin)
New Haven Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton
These are splendidly idiomatic performances, displaying a natural understanding of the flexibility needed in interpreting Walton's jazzy syncopated writing...it adds to the attractions of the... — More…
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