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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... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 4705082
Label: Decca
Series: British Music Collection
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

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Walton: Cello Concerto

Work length28:33

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$4.50

Robert Cohen (cello)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1993-11
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

Moderato

Track length8:12

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Allegro appassionato

Track length6:20

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Lento

Track length14:01

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Walton: Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor

Work length44:49

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$6.00

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1993-11
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

1. Allegro assai

Track length14:31

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2. Presto, con malizia

Track length6:23

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3. Andante

Track length11:10

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4. Maestoso - Brioso ed ardentemente

Track length12:45

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Walton: Scapino: A Comedy Overture

Work length8:05

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1994-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

Walton: Violin Concerto

Work length31:42

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Tasmin Little (violin)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1994-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

1. Andante tranquillo

Track length11:39

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2. Presto capriccioso alla napolitana

Track length6:36

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3. Vivace

Track length13:27

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Walton: Symphony No. 2

Work length27:54

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1994-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

1. Allegro molto

Track length8:21

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2. Lento assai

Track length10:26

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3. Passacaglia: Theme, Variations, Fugato & Coda

Track length9:07

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 2

Work length1:50

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1996-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

1. Fanfare

Track length0:35

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2. Scotch Rhapsody

Track length1:15

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 1

Work length7:31

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1996-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

2. Valse

Track length3:15

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4. Tango-Pasodoble

Track length1:49

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3. Swiss Yodelling Song

Track length2:27

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 2

Work length2:06

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1996-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

3. Country Dance

Track length2:06

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 1

Work length1:17

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1996-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

1. Polka

Track length1:17

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 2

Work length6:48

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1996-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

4. Noche Espagnole

Track length2:46

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5. Popular Song

Track length2:12

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6. Old Sir Faulk

Track length1:50

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Walton: Façade Orchestral Suite No. 1

Work length2:21

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1996-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

5. Tarantelle Sevillana

Track length2:21

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Walton: Viola Concerto

Work length24:07

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Paul Neubauer (viola)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1996-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

1. Andante comodo

Track length7:52

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2. Vivo con molto preciso

Track length4:11

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3. Allegro moderato

Track length12:04

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Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith

Work length24:23

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1996-03
Recording Venue: Guildhall, Southampton

Tema

Track length2:03

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Variation I

Track length1:47

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Variation II

Track length1:45

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Variation III

Track length2:25

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Variation IV

Track length0:49

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Variation V

Track length3:00

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Variation VI

Track length1:19

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Variation VII

Track length3:59

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Variation VIII

Track length0:41

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Variation IX

Track length0:46

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Finale

Track length5:49

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Walton: Crown Imperial

Work length6:53

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1995-02-03
Recording Venue: Winchester Cathedral

Walton: Belshazzar's Feast

Work length36:14

$8.50

$11.50

Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, L'Inviti, Waynflete Singers
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1995-02-03
Recording Venue: Winchester Cathedral

1. Thus spake Isaiah

Track length5:30

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2. If I forget thee

Track length5:42

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3. Babylon was a great city

Track length1:38

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4. In Babylon Belshazzar the King

Track length2:59

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5. Praise ye, the God of gold

Track length5:31

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6. Thus in Babylon the mighty city

Track length3:21

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7. And in that same hour

Track length2:28

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8. Then sing aloud to God our strength

Track length4:06

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9. The trumpeters and pipers

Track length1:10

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10. Then sing aloud to God our strength

Track length3:49

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Walton: Coronation Te Deum

Work length10:26

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Timothy Byram-Wigfield (organ)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Waynflete Singers, Winchester Cathedral Choir
David Hill
Recorded: 1991-05
Recording Venue: Winchester Cathedral

Walton: Suite from "Henry V" - Concert Suite from Film Score - Arr. Muir Mathieson (Excerpts)

Work length2:26

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1995-02-03
Recording Venue: Winchester Cathedral

Overture - The Globe Playhouse

Track length2:26

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Walton: Henry V - Suite

Work length11:53

$2.55

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1995-02-03
Recording Venue: Winchester Cathedral

Passacaglia - The Death of Falstaff

Track length3:26

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$1.15

Charge and Battle of Agincourt

Track length6:14

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Touch her soft lips, and part

Track length2:13

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Walton: Suite from "Henry V" - Concert Suite from Film Score - Arr. Muir Mathieson (Excerpts)

Work length2:27

$0.85

$1.15

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton
Recorded: 1995-02-03
Recording Venue: Winchester Cathedral

Agincourt Song

Track length2:27

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Walton: Orb and Sceptre

Work length7:40

$1.10

$1.50

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Hill
Recorded: 1991-05
Recording Venue: Winchester Cathedral

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2010

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 conductor of all but two minor items, is central to the success of the whole. Like his compatriot, André Previn, he's idiomatic, with a natural feeling for the jazzy syncopations at the heart of so much of Walton's music.
This issue brings together the three Litton discs previously issued, with important additions.
The third disc was issued separately, and contains outstanding versions, never previously released, of the Viola Concerto and HindemithVariations plus the two Façade Suites. Where most latterday interpreters of the Viola Concerto have taken a very expansive view of the lyrical first movement, Paul Neubauer comes nearer than anyone else to the original interpreters on disc, Frederick Riddle and William Primrose.
With Neubauer – his tone firm and precise, clean rather than fruity – the result is more persuasive than other modern versions, with no suspicion of expressive self-indulgence. The brisker passages are taken faster than is now usual; the impact is tauter and stronger without losing romantic warmth. He relaxes seductively for the hauntingly beautiful epilogue, using the widest dynamic range. Litton encourages wide contrasts in the orchestra, the big tuttis bringing an element of wildness in the brassy syncopations, the ensemble kept crisp and incisive. The Hindemith Variations also brings a taut and purposeful performance with contrasts in both dynamic and speed heightened to extremes.
Façade is predictably fun, though there's some danger of the warm acoustic softening some of the sharpness of these witty parodies.
Two of the other discs remain the same as with their original release, with Tasmin Little's heartfelt reading of the Violin Concerto coupled with Litton's outstanding account of the Second Symphony, the finest digital version yet, as well as Scapino, while Robert Cohen's thoughtful reading of the Cello Concerto is coupled with the richly recorded First Symphony.
Litton's powerful account of Belshazzar'sFeast with Bryn Terfel brings fresh, cleanly focused choral sound in an atmospheric acoustic that clearly lets you appreciate the terracing between the different groupings of voices. That aptly comes with the coronation music – and the Henry V Suite, with David Hill, chorus-master in Belshazzar, ably standing in for Litton in the Coronation Te Deum and Orband Sceptre.

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