Walton - Façade - An Entertainment
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British Music Collection - Britten & Walton
RecommendedPeter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Edith Sitwell (narrator)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra, English Opera Group Ensemble, Benjamin Britten, Anthony Collins
This disc includes one of the great highlights of the whole Britten discography, that first magical recording of the Serenade, with Pears in fresh, youthful voice and Dennis Brain's marvellous... — More…
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Building a Library, November 1999, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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What a joy to welcome on CD, a major British ballet score (comparable in appeal to Walton's Façade with which, happily, it's coupled). Constant Lambert's Horoscope is a highly individual score... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gerhard: The Plague, Walton: Façade & Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale National Symphony Orchestra Chorus, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Antal Dorati, London Sinfonietta, Sir William Walton, Argo Chamber Ensemble, Gennady Zalkowitsch
s[The Gerhard is] tunningly performed and engineered. — More…
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Sir William Walton: A Centenary Celebration
Roderick Williams (baritone), Tamsin Dalley (mezzo-soprano), Kevin Whately (narrator), Orchestra of the Swan, Bruce O'Neil
Bruce O’Neil (who serves as Head of Music at the Royal Shakespeare Company) masterminds a commendably communicative display and secures spirited results from his seven-piece ensemble drawn from... — More…
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Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra - The Columbia Stereo Collection
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Editorial Achievement of the Year
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Decca Conductors' Gallery Anthony Bernard, Hamilton Harty, Roger Désormière, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Carlo Zecchi, Piero Coppola, George Enescu
Sir William Walton, Henry Wood, Willem Mengelberg, Albert Coates, Victor de Sabata, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Ernest Ansermet, Clemens Krauss, Paul van Kempen, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Eduard...
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Louis Frémaux: The Complete CBSO Recordings City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Frémaux
There's a lot of French music in this set: earthy readings of Poulenc’s Gloria and Les biches alongside a host of rarities...Walton’s Bach-inspired ballet The Wise Virgins is fun, and there’s... — More…
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Delius: In a Summer Garden; Summer Night on the River; Walton: Façade
Peter Pears (narrator), Edith Sitwell (narrator)
London Symphony Orchestra, English Opera Group Ensemble, Anthony Collins
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[Carole Boyd and Zeb Soanes’s] alliance with the customarily attentive John Wilson and his razor-sharp seven-piece ensemble is infectiously enjoyable. Sitwell’s modernist verse is delivered... — More…
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William Walton - Façade
Eleanor Bron & Richard Stilgoe (reciters)
The Nash Ensemble, David Lloyd-Jones
The Façade entertainment – poems by Edith Sitwell to music by the then-unknown William Walton – was an amorphous creation, a collection of over 40 poems and settings built up over the years... — More…
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