Walton - Violin Concerto

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... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Wilson was made for Walton and the orchestral writing has rarely been captured with such razor-sharp edge cheek-by-jowl with transparent radiance. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2025More…

It's an inspired coupling, as well as a generous one, to have these three high-romantic concertos together. James Ehnes gives superb performances, bringing out their full emotional thrust without... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Liya Petrova’s new recording of Walton’s Violin Concerto grips you from the outset. Her phrasing of the opening material ideally combines singing tone with subtle inflections of pulse and dynamic,... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

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, 2010More…

Anthony Marwood’s un-flashy individualism seems to be operating at an opposite pole to the Heifetz way, and generates memorable results of its own. While Marwood has all the virtuosity that... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Kennedy is in his element, while Previn captures the lushness of the colourful score. — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008More…

When artists of the stature of Vengerov and Rostropovich tackle English music it's often a revelation, and here's some of the most ravishing string-playing ever heard in either of these masterpieces.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…