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Showing posts with label William Walton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Walton. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2026

William Walton - Film Music Vol. 4 (Neville Marriner)


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Composer: William Walton
  • Richard III, A Shakespeare Scenario
  • Macbeth: Fanfare and March
  • Major Barbara - A Shavian Sequence for Orchestra

John Gielgud, speaker
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor

Date: 1991
Label: Chandos

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William Walton - Film Music Vol. 3 (Neville Marriner)


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Composer: William Walton
  • Henry V, A Shakespeare Scenario

Christopher Plummer, narrator
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor

Date: 1990
Label: Chandos

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William Walton - Film Music Vol. 2 (Neville Marriner)


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Composer: William Walton
  • 'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue
  • A Wartime Sketchbook
  • Suite 'Escape Me Never'
  • 'The Three Sisters', Music for the Film
  • Suite 'Battle of Britain'

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor

Date: 1990
Label: Chandos

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William Walton - Film Music Vol. 1 (Neville Marriner)


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Composer: William Walton
  • Hamlet, A Shakespeare Scenario
  • As You Like It, A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare

John Gielgud, narrator
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor

Date: 1989
Label: Chandos

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Friday, March 13, 2026

William Walton - Complete Song Collection (Siân Dicker; Krystal Tunnicliffe; Saki Kato)


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Composer: William Walton
  • A Song for the Lord Mayor’s Table
  • Anon in Love
  • Four Early Songs
  • Tritons
  • Under the Greenwood Tree
  • Christopher Columbus: Beatriz' Song (arr. Christopher Palmer)
  • Three ‘Façade’ Settings

Siân Dicker, soprano
Krystal Tunnicliffe, piano
Saki Kato, guitar

Date: 2024
Label: Delphian Records

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William Walton - String Quartets (Doric String Quartet)


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Composer: William Walton
  • String Quartet No. 1
  • String Quartet No. 2 in A minor

Doric String Quartet
    Alex Redington, violin
    Jonathan Stone, violin
    Simon Tandree, viola
    John Myerscough, cello

Date: 2011
Label: Chandos

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William Walton - Piano Quartet; String Quartet (Maggini Quartet; Peter Donohoe)


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Composer: William Walton
  • String Quartet in A minor
  • Piano Quartet in D minor

Maggini Quartet
    Laurence Jackson, violin
    David Angel, violin
    Martin Outram, viola
    Michal Kaznowski, cello
&
Peter Donohoe, piano

Date: 2000
Label: Naxos

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Thursday, March 12, 2026

William Walton - Violin Concerto; Portsmouth Point; Troilus and Cressida (John Wilson)


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Composer: William Walton
  • Troilus and Cressida Symphonic Suite (arr. Christoper Palmer)
  • Violin Concerto
  • Portsmouth Point

Charlie Lovell-Jones, violin
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson, conductor

Date: 2025
Label: Chandos

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William Walton - Symphonies (Martyn Brabbins)


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Composer: William Walton
  • Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor
  • Siesta
  • Symphony No. 2

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor

Date: 2011
Label: Hyperion

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William Walton - Belshazzar's Feast; Symphony No. 1 (Colin Davis)


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Composer: William Walton
  • Belshazzar's Feast
  • Symphony No. 1

Peter Coleman-Wright, 
London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Colin Davis, conductor

Date: 2010
Label: LSO Live

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William Walton - Spitfire Prelude and Fugue; Sinfonia concertante (Paul Daniel)


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Composer: William Walton
  • Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
  • Sinfonia concertante (1927 version)
  • Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
  • March for 'A History of the English Speaking Peoples'

Peter Donohoe, piano
English Northern Philharmonia Orchestra
Paul Daniel, conductor

Date: 1999
Label: Naxos

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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

William Walton; Constant Lambert - Symphony No. 2; The Rio Grande (André Previn)


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Composer: William Walton; Constant Lambert
  • Walton - Symphony No. 2
  • Walton - Portsmouth Point
  • Walton - Scapino, a Comedy Overture
  • Lambert - The Rio Grande

Cristina Ortiz, piano
Jean Temperley, mezzo-soprano
London Madrigal Singers

London Symphony Orchestra
André Previn, conductor

Date: 1974 / 2021
Label: Warner Classics

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William Walton - Collected Works (Various Artists)


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Composer: William Walton
  • Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor
  • Violin Concerto in B minor
  • Cello Concerto
  • Viola Concerto in A minor
  • Sinfonia concertante for orchestra with piano obbligato

London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn, conductor
Jascha Heifetz, violin / Philharmonia Orchestra / William Walton, conductor
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch, conductor
Yuri Bashmet, viola / London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn, conductor
Kathryn Stott, piano / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley, conductor

Date: 1966; 1950; 1957; 1994; 1989 / 2002
Label: BMG RCA

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Friday, February 27, 2026

Samuel Barber; Erich Wolfgang Korngold; William Walton - Violin Concertos (James Ehnes)


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Composer: Samuel Barber; Erich Wolfgang Korngold; William Walton
  • Korngold - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
  • Barber - Violin Concerto, Op. 14
  • Walton - Violin Concerto in B minor

James Ehnes, violin
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Bramwell Tovey, conductor

Date: 2006
Label: Onyx

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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Edward Elgar; William Walton - Cello Concertos (Steven Isserlis)


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Composer: Edward Elgar; Gustav Holst; William Walton; Imogen Holst
  • Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
  • Holst - Invocation, H75, Op. 19 No. 2
  • Walton - Cello Concerto
  • I. Holst - The fall of the leaf

Steven Isserlis, cello
Philharmonia Orchestra
Paavo Järvi, conductor

Date: 2016
Label: Hyperion

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