William Turner Walton
Born: 29th March 1902, Oldham, England
Died: 8th March 1983, Ischia, Italy
Nationality: English
Sir William Turner Walton 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, the First Symphony, and the British coronation anthems Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre.
Born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of a musician, Walton was a chorister and then an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. On leaving the university, he was taken up by the literary Sitwell siblings, who provided him with a home and a cultural education.
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John Wilson and Sinfonia of London perform works by William Walton
A characterful collection of works including a suite from Troilus and Cressida alongside the overture Portsmouth Point and a dazzling account of the Violin Concerto performed by the orchestra's leader, Charlie Lovell-Jones.
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Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla: The British Project
The Lithuanian conductor and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra present evocative and dramatic accounts of four works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Walton.
Popular Genres: Walton
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Popular Works: Walton
- A Litany 'Drop, drop slow tears' (27)
- All this time (19)
- Antiphon (9)
- Belshazzar's Feast (32)
- Cello Concerto (51)
- Coronation Te Deum (27)
- Crown Imperial (102)
- Façade - An Entertainment (27)
- Façade Orchestral Suite No. 1 (23)
- Façade Orchestral Suite No. 2 (12)
- Five Bagatelles for solo guitar (30)
- Jubilate Deo (24)
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (10)
- Make we joy now in this fest (20)
- Missa Brevis (9)
- Old Sir Faulk (8)
- Orb and Sceptre (52)
- Partita for Orchestra (11)
- Passacaglia - Death of Falstaff and Touch her soft lips from Henry V (14)
- Passacaglia for solo cello (10)
- Piano Quartet (13)
- Popular Song from 'Façade' (11)
- Portsmouth Point Overture (25)
- Scapino: A Comedy Overture (16)
- Set me as a seal upon thine heart (36)
- Siesta (12)
- Sonata for String Orchestra (13)
- Spitfire Prelude (10)
- Spitfire Prelude & Fugue (30)
- String Quartet in A Minor (12)
- Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor (46)
- Symphony No. 2 (20)
- The Twelve (19)
- The Wise Virgins: Ballet Suite (8)
- Touch her soft lips and part (from Henry V) (25)
- Viola Concerto (37)
- Violin Concerto (53)
- Violin Sonata (18)
- What cheer? (19)
- Where does the uttered music go? (11)
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