Sir William Walton

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Sir William Turner Walton OM (29 March 1902 – 8 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto, and the First Symphony.

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Album

Year Title Artist Rating Releases
1985 Cello Concertos Elgar, Walton; Yo‐Yo Ma, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn 2
1987 Symphony No. 1 / Orb & Sceptre / Crown Imperial Sir William Walton 1
1988 Symphony no. 1 / Portsmouth Point Overture Walton; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin 1
1990 Façade 1 & 2 (The City of London Sinfonia feat. conductor: Richard Hickox, Reciters: Susana Walton & Richard Baker) Sir William Walton 1
1990 Film Music, Volume 2: Battle of Britain Suite / A Wartime Sketchbook / "Spitfire" Prelude and Fugue / Escape Me Never / The Three Sisters Sir William Walton; Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner 1
1990 Walton: 'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue etc. Sir William Walton 1
1991 Piano Quartet / Sonata for Violin and Piano Sir William Walton 1
1992 Belshazzar's Feast / Coronation Te Deum / Cello Concerto Sir William Walton 1
1992 Respighi / Sibelius / Walton Ottorino Respighi, Jean Sibelius, William Walton; Aaron Rosand, John Covelli 1
1993 Walton: Symphonies 1 & 2 (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy) Sir William Walton 1
1995 BBC Music, Volume 4, Number 3: Sibelius Symphony no. 2 / Walton Symphony no. 2 Sibelius, Walton 1
1996 Symphony No. 2 / Viola Concerto / Johannesburg Festival Overture (English Northern Philharmonia feat. conductor: Paul Daniel) Sir William Walton 1
1996 Scenes From Shakespeare Sir William Walton 1
1997 Cello Concertos Elgar, Walton, Delius; János Starker, Leonard Slatkin, Philharmonia Orchestra 1
1997 Britten: Cello Symphony / Walton: Cello Concerto Britten, Walton; Julian Lloyd Webber, Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields 1
1997 Symphony No. 1 / Partita (English Northern Philharmonia feat. conductor: Paul Daniel) Sir William Walton 1
1998 Belshazzar's Feast / Symphony No. 1 (City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orchestra & The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus feat. conductor: Sir Simon Rattle) Sir William Walton 1
1998 Bruch: Double Concerto / Walton: Viola Concerto William Walton, Max Bruch; Yuri Bashmet, London Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi, André Previn 1
1999 BBC Music, Volume 7, Number 11: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis / Belshazzar's Feast (BBC Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Andrew Davis, baritone: Willard White) Vaughan Williams / Walton 1
1999 Violin Concerto / Cello Concerto (English Northern Philharmonia feat. conductor: Paul Daniel) Sir William Walton 1
1999 Walton: Spitfire prelude & Fugue; Sinfonia concertante... Sir William Walton 1
2000 Piano Quartet / String Quartet (Maggini Quartet feat. piano: Peter Donohoe) Sir William Walton 1
2000 Henry V (RTE Concert Orchestra feat. conductor: Andrew Penny, narrators: Michael Sheen & Anton Lesser) Sir William Walton 1
2001 English Guitar Concertos (Northern Sinfonia, feat. conductor: Richard Hickox, guitar: Craig Ogden) Walton / Arnold / Berkeley 1
2002 The Twelve / Coronation Te Deum / Missa Brevis / Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge feat. conductor: Christopher Robinson) Sir William Walton 1
2002 Coronation Te Deum and other choral music (Polyphony feat. conductor: Stephen Layton) Sir William Walton 1
2002 Anon in Love / Façade Settings / A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table (soprano: Felicity Lott, tenor: Martyn Hill, piano: Graham Johnson, guitar: Craig Ogden) Sir William Walton 1
2003 Britten: Violin Concerto / Walton: Viola Concerto Benjamin Britten, Sir William Walton; London Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich, Maxim Vengerov 1
2003 Violin Concertos Jean Sibelius, Sir William Walton; Akiko Suwanai, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo 1
2008 BBC Music, Volume 16, Number 12: Great Proms Premieres Walton / Ireland / Puw 1
2010 Walton: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 (Orchestre National de Lille feat. conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes) Sir William Walton 1
— Belshazzar's Feast / Suite from Henry V (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Litton) Sir William Walton 1
— Belshazzar's Feast / Suite From Henry V (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra feat. Conductor: André Previn) Sir William Walton 1
— Belshazzar's Feast/In Honour of the City of London (London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Richard Hickox) Sir William Walton 1
— Belshazzar’s Feast / Henry V Suite / Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (Richard Hickox, Carl Davis, Sir Charles Groves) Sir William Walton 1
— Boult’s Planets Holst, Walton, Vaughan Williams; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult 1
— Chamber Music (Soloists of the London Symphony Orchestra) Sir William Walton 1
— Elgar: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83 / Walton: String Quartet in A minor Elgar, Walton; The Britten Quartet 1
— Façade (Melologos Ensemble feat. conductor: Silveer Van den Broeck, reciter: Pamela Hunter) Sir William Walton 1
— Façade: An Entertainment (reciters: Fenella Fielding and Michael Flanders, Members of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields feat. conductor: Neville Marriner) Sir William Walton 1
— Gloria / Te Deum / Façade Suites (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) Sir William Walton 1
— String Quartets (Doric String Quartet) Sir William Walton 1
— Symphony No. 1 / Cello Concerto Walton; Lynn Harrell, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle 1
— Viola Concerto and Violin Concerto (The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: André Previn) Sir William Walton 1
— Walton: Symphonies & Concertos, etc. Sir William Walton 1

Album + Compilation

Year Title Artist Rating Releases
1988 Violin Concertos Compilation Walton, Elgar; Jascha Heifetz 1
1993 Cello Concertos (Boston Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Charles Munch, cello: Gregor Piatigorsky) Compilation Dvořák / Walton 2
1996 Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 / Walton: Façade Compilation Gustav Holst, Sir William Walton; New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy 1
2002 A Centenary Celebration Compilation Sir William Walton 1
2002 BBC Music, Volume 10, Number 7: Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario Compilation Sir William Walton 1

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