Opera, Walton (composer)
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Special offer. Walton: Troilus and Cressida
Judith Howarth (soprano), Yvonne Howard (mezzo-soprano), Arthur Davies (tenor), Nigel Robson (tenor), Brian Cookson (tenor), Peter Bodenham (tenor), Keith Mills (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone) James Thornton (baritone), Clive Bayley (bass), Bruce Budd (bass), Stephen Dowson (bass) & David Owen-Lewis...
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Opera
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Walton: Troilus and Cressida
RecommendedClive Bayley (Calkas), James Thornton (Antenor), Arthur Davies (Troilus), Nigel Robson (Pandarus), Judith Howarth (Cressida), Yvonne Howard (Evadne), David Owen-Lewis (Horaste), Alan Opie (Diomede)
Opera North Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia, Richard Hickox
Troilus and Cressida is here powerfully presented as an opera for the central repertory, traditional in its red-blooded treatment of a big classical subject. Few operas since Puccini's have... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Opera
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Maestro – Music by Leonard Bernstein
Victoria Ruggiero (piano), Nick Blaemire, Mallory Portnoy, Kate Eastman, Antonia Butler (vocalist), Michael Clarke (vocalist), Mark Brown (vocalist), Tony Yazbeck (vocalist), Clyde Alves (vocalist), Jay Armstrong Johnson (vocalist), Ruth Mense (piano), Dicky Tarrach (drumkit), Thissy Thiers (bassguitar),...
the soundtrack album is positively jam-packed and as colourful as Bernstein’s story...The album is a real snapshot of the f ilm, arranged in sequences of music and dialogue; the latter element... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Film Music/Score of the Year
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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Special offer. Sir Colin Davis Anthology
Limited Edition of 5000
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... —
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8 SACDs + CD + DVD Video
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Walton: The Bear
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Alan Opie (baritone) & John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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Special offer. Crown Imperial (Festive music for organ, winds, brass & percussion)
Mary Preston (organ)
Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin
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British Composers: A Celebration
RecommendedRichard Rodney Bennett (piano), Ian Hare (piano), Robert Tear (vocals), Sir Andrew Davis (piano), Bruce Russell (vocals), Richard Lewis (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Lewis Thomas (vocals), Geoffrey Walls (baritone), John Hauxwell (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Wilfred Brown...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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The 1956 Nixa-Westminster stereo recordings Volume 1
Sir Adrian Boult (narration)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Walton Symphony...comes up more brightly than previously: it's an intensely rhythmic performance...the slow movement builds surely and passionately, and the finale comes as the culmination... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Re-issue of the Month
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