Walton - Symphony in B flat minor & Belshazzar’s Feast
Dennis Noble (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult's interpretation of the Symphony impresses by dint of its thrusting energy, logic and cumulative grip...there's no missing the infectious commitment here or in Belshazzar's Feast
Walton - Symphony in B flat minor & Belshazzar’s Feast
Dennis Noble (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Adrian Boult
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Boult's interpretation of the Symphony impresses by dint of its thrusting energy, logic and cumulative grip...there's no missing the infectious commitment here or in Belshazzar's Feast
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Two more splendid Nixa recordings with Sir Adrian Boult, now transferred to CD, join last month’s Sibelius disc on SOMM. This symphony is a real landmark of English composition, and combining it with Walton’s oratorio Belshazzar’s Feast makes this a very collectable disc. The Gramophone review of the original recording referred to the oratorio as a “tour de force” which was “irresistibly exciting”.
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Awards and reviews
May 2010
Boult's interpretation of the Symphony impresses by dint of its thrusting energy, logic and cumulative grip...there's no missing the infectious commitment here or in Belshazzar's Feast
7th February 2010
[Walton 1] will always sound shocking and new, at least in performances with the nervous energy and searing commitment of this one...Boult’s reading of Belshazzar’s Feast... is hardly less gripping — spiky, frenzied, tense even when tender, with a sort of bony clarity and a clarion soloist in Noble.
