Vocal, Walton (composer)
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Devos’s genuine affection for this repertoire shines through…With Britten’s cycle On this Island, Devos’s sheer accuracy and panache outshines many sopranos on record. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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British Music Collection - Britten & Walton
RecommendedPeter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Edith Sitwell (narrator)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra, English Opera Group Ensemble, Benjamin Britten, Anthony Collins
This disc includes one of the great highlights of the whole Britten discography, that first magical recording of the Serenade, with Pears in fresh, youthful voice and Dennis Brain's marvellous... —
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Building a Library, November 1999, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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This excellent Hyperion issue brings together a wide-ranging group of Walton's chamber works, from his earliest major work, the Piano Quartet, originally written when he was 16, to his last... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2002, Editor's Choice
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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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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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Trails of Creativity: Music from Between the Wars 1918 – 1938
David Frühwirth (violin), Henri Sigfridsson (piano)
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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Huw Watkins’s Larkin settings are the main reason to invest in this recital —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Zuljan's playing is delicate and nuanced, articulates the inner voices clearly, and in the improvisations (as with his accompaniment to Byron's poem 'Darkness' spoken by Brunet), endlessly responsive. —
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William Walton
Legendary Recordings
Peter Pears and Edith Sitwell, Sir Laurence Olivier
The English Opera Group Ensemble, Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Anthony Collins, Sir William Walton, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Dame Edith Sitwell's simple essential 1954 recording of Façade. With her impeccably clear and unflustered delivery, she relishes every inimitable turn of phrase and inspires a comparably charismatic... —
