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Walton: The Symphonies & Concertos

SKU: 03213

Price:
AU $30.86

Label: Decca Cat. No.: 475 6534 Medium: CD No. Discs: 2

This programme conveniently brings together Walton's two symphonies and three concertos on to 2 well-filled discs (around 155 minutes). This is music of wide contrasts — from the spiky wit, rhythmic vitality and brilliance that characterises the First Symphony and the Violin Concerto, to the Mediterranean warmth and romanticism that permeates the Cello Concerto. These works cover a major part of Walton's creative life with the earliest piece being the Viola Concerto of 1929 (revised in 1961 — as recorded here) through to the Second Symphony — first heard in Edinburgh in September 1960.

Kyung Wha Chung's now legendary recording of the Violin Concerto was made in 1972 in the presence of the composer and immediately drew the most enthusiastic reviews:

"… she gets to the heart of this music, demonstrates its toughness as well as its soul-searching lyrical warmth … Chung's incisiveness compasses the fearsome virtuoso writing of the Scherzo not just with assurance but with wit and obvious enjoyment in display ... here in sum is a great, deeply involving performance." - Gramophone May 1973

The other concertos included here are from a much-praised survey of Walton's major orchestral works and concertos made with Andrew Litton and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, while the recordings of the Symphonies are from an enthusiastically-reviewed disc Vladimir Ashkenazy made during his tenure as music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra:

"Vladimir Ashkenazy … understands the need not to treat the score too literally, giving Walton's nagging syncoptations a degree of jazzy freedom, and treating the great romantic melodies with the sort of expressiveness apt for Rachmaninov … an account of the First Symphony which confirms Ashkenazy's Waltonian credentials … with brass blazing Ashkenazy is superb in the finale." - Gramophone April 1993

Artists:

Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano), Kyung Wha Chung (violin), Paul Neubauer (viola).

Composers:

Walton.

Tracks:

WILLIAM WALTON (1902-1983)

CD 1
1 2 3 4	I II III IV	Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor Allegro assai Presto, con malizia Andante Maestoso - Brioso ed ardentemente
5 6 7	I II III	Violin Concerto in B minor Andante tranquillo Presto capriccioso alla napolitana Vivace
CD 2
1 2 3	I II III	Cello Concerto Moderato Allegro appassionato Tema ed improvvisazioni
4 5 6	I II III	Viola Concerto Andante commodo Vivo, con molto preciso Allegro moderato
7 8 9	I II III	Symphony No. 2 Allegro molto Lento assai Passacaglia: Theme, variations, fugato & coda: scherzando