Help
Skip to main content
Basket 0 items, $0.00

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

William Walton
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...

Gramophone Magazine, July 2008

More reviews

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

Purchase product

CD

$9.25

2 in stock: usually despatched within 1 working day

Download

From$7.00

Download

Audio formats guide

44.1 kHz, 16 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

$9.00

320 kbps, MP3

$7.00

No digital booklet included

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...

Gramophone Magazine, July 2008

More reviews

About

Contents and tracklist

Walton: Façade - An Entertainment
Work length24:33
Fanfare
Track length0:31
Hornpipe
Track length1:12
En famille
Track length3:06
Mariner Man
Track length0:43
Long Steel Grass
Track length2:02
Through Gilded Trellises
Track length2:20
Tango - Pasadoble
Track length1:51
Lullaby for Jumbo
Track length1:31
Black Mrs. Behemoth
Track length0:58
Tarantella
Track length1:17
A Man from a Far Countree
Track length1:25
By the Lake
Track length1:44
Country Dance
Track length1:48
Polka
Track length1:26
Four in the Morning
Track length2:39
Walton: Façade, Something Lies Beyond the Scene
Work length1:00
Walton: Façade - An Entertainment
Work length11:53
Valse
Track length3:04
Jodelling Song
Track length2:31
Scotch Rhapsody
Track length1:16
Popular Song
Track length1:58
Old Sir Faulk
Track length2:01
Sir Beelzebub
Track length1:03
Walton: Henry V, Act III Scene 1
Work length5:55
Once more into the breach
Track length5:55
Walton: Henry V, Act IV
Work length2:57
Prologue: Now enter conjecture of a time
Track length2:57
Walton: Henry V, Act IV Scene 1
Work length3:40
Upon the King! Let us our lives, our souls…
Track length3:40
Walton: Henry V, Act IV Scene 3
Work length13:40
This day Is called the feast of Crispian
Track length5:12
My duty to you both with equal love
Track length8:28
Excerpt,Walton: Henry V - film score
Work length1:28
Epilogue
Track length1:28
Walton: Orb and Sceptre
Work length7:29

Awards and reviews

July 2008

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 response from Peter Pears.
View download progress

Download queue