Orchestral, Symphonies, Walton (composer)
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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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Special offer. Walton: Symphony No. 1 & Belshazzar's Feast
RecommendedThomas Hampson (tenor, baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
This is a winning coupling, with Walton’s two searing masterpieces from the 1930s given electrifying performances…Rattle with players he knows so well combines expressive freedom with knife-edged... — More…
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Building A Library, July 2022, First Choice
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Special offer. Maestro – Music by Leonard Bernstein
Victoria Ruggiero (piano), Nick Blaemire, Mallory Portnoy, Kate Eastman, Antonia Butler (vocals), Michael Clarke (vocals), Mark Brown (vocals), Tony Yazbeck (vocals), Jay Armstrong Johnson (vocals), Ruth Mense (piano), Dicky Tarrach (drums), Thissy Thiers (bass guitar), Clyde Alves (vocals), Bradley...
the soundtrack album is positively jam-packed and as colourful as Bernstein’s story...The album is a real snapshot of the f ilm, arranged in sequences of music and dialogue; the latter element... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Film Music/Score of the Year
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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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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... — 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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The French players seem perfectly drilled in the intricate rhythmic complexities of Walton's often jagged writing in these highly enjoyable performances, which also bring out the lyrical warmth... — More…
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Special offer. The Paavo Berglund Edition
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Paavo Berglund
42 CDs
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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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The 1956 Nixa-Westminster stereo recordings Volume 1
Sir Adrian Boult (narration)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Walton Symphony...comes up more brightly than previously: it's an intensely rhythmic performance...the slow movement builds surely and passionately, and the finale comes as the culmination... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Re-issue of the Month
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