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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
Medium:
CD
No. of Discs:
2
SKU #:
03213
Label:
Decca
Catalog #:
475 6534
Price: AU $30.86
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