SACD, Walton (composer)
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Walton: Symphony No. 1 & Violin Concerto
RecommendedTasmin Little (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
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... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2014
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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Walton: Symphony No. 2 & Cello Concerto
RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
If a new Walton release can finally put paid to the notion that his music somehow 'went off' after his move to the Italian island of Ischia in 1956, then this must be it. And the performances... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2015, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Walton: Viola Concerto, Partita for Orchestra & Sonata for String Orchestra
RecommendedJames Ehnes (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Ehnes, long established as one of the world’s leading violinists, doesn’t offer the same hefty, almost cello-like weight of tone on the viola as some of his specialist colleagues. Then again,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 28th April 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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New,
Earth, Sea, Air: British Music For Cello and Orchestra Laura van der Heijden, Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ryan Wigglesworth
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Walton & Hindemith: Cello Concertos Christian Poltéra (cello)
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), Frank Shipway
there is much to admire in Poltera's immense technical command and forthright technical command and forthright expressiveness, although finessed light and shade...are sometimes in rather short... — More…
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…Tatjana Masurenko… reading of Walton's masterpiece combines impressive technical acumen and no mean interpretative flair. The NDR Radiophilharmonie, too, respond with polish and keen vigour... — More…
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Walton & Bliss: Violin Concertos
Original version of Walton's Violin Concerto
Lorraine McAslan (violin)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
McAslan’s response to the solo part’s Heifetz-satisfying technical demands is as fine as her bombproof tuning and warm, not over-sumptuous tone and expression. — More…
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Walton: Façade, Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes & Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves/Berkeley: Guitar Concerto
Tony Randall (narrator), Columbia Chamber Ensemble, Arthur Fiedler, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, Juliam Bream (guitar), Monteverdi Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
