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Special offer. Walton: Façade - An Entertainment

Carole Boyd & Zeb Soanes (reciters)

Ensemble, John Wilson

Walton: Façade - An Entertainment
[Carole Boyd and Zeb Soanes’s] alliance with the customarily attentive John Wilson and his razor-sharp seven-piece ensemble is infectiously enjoyable. Sitwell’s modernist verse is delivered...

Gramophone Magazine, June 2017

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Special offer. Walton: Façade - An Entertainment

Carole Boyd & Zeb Soanes (reciters)

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[Carole Boyd and Zeb Soanes’s] alliance with the customarily attentive John Wilson and his razor-sharp seven-piece ensemble is infectiously enjoyable. Sitwell’s modernist verse is delivered...

Gramophone Magazine, June 2017

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Carole Boyd has performed for over 35 years in theatre, television and radio, and is well known as Lynda Snell in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers. Zeb Soanes is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4, and has presented The BBC Proms live on BBC Four in addition to films for The Culture Show, Newsnight and Songs of Praise.

The CD includes a rarely-heard BBC Home Service interview with Dame Edith Sitwell.

John Wilson is a conductor of international repute particularly for his interpretations of light music, for which he has won many plaudits.

Contents and tracklist

Walton: Façade - An Entertainment
Work length37:13
Fanfare
Track length0:34
No. 1, Hornpipe
Track length1:14
No. 2, En famille
Track length2:58
No. 3, Mariner Man
Track length0:37
No. 4, Long Steel Grass
Track length2:21
No. 5, Through Gilded Trellises
Track length2:26
No. 6, Tango-pasadoble
Track length1:57
No. 7, Lullaby for Jumbo
Track length1:42
No. 8, Black Mrs. Behemoth
Track length1:05
No. 9, Tarantella
Track length1:14
No. 10, A Man from a Far Countree
Track length1:30
No. 11, By the Lake
Track length1:55
No. 12, Country Dance
Track length1:50
No. 13, Polka
Track length1:11
No. 14, Four in the Morning
Track length2:11
No. 15, Something Lies Beyond the Scene
Track length0:57
No. 16, Valse
Track length3:09
No. 17, Jodelling Song
Track length2:19
No. 18, Scotch Rhapsody
Track length1:12
No. 19, Popular Song
Track length1:56
No. 20, Fox Trot
Track length1:51
No. 21, Sir Beelzebub
Track length1:04
What Is the Most Beautiful Line of Poetry?
Work length2:24
Personal Appearance
Work length1:46
The Technical Side of Your Poetry
Work length1:32
Façade
Work length1:30
Thoughts on Her Early Work
Work length0:46
The Sitwell Siblings / Childhood
Work length1:37
Other Poets / Poetry's Position in the World
Work length4:35
Childhood Reading
Work length3:12
Façade Again
Work length0:39
Writing Film Scripts / America
Work length1:36
Parental Influence and Childhood
Work length2:40
Worst Faults / Battles Against Injustice / The Aims of Poetry
Work length4:58

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June 2017

[Carole Boyd and Zeb Soanes’s] alliance with the customarily attentive John Wilson and his razor-sharp seven-piece ensemble is infectiously enjoyable. Sitwell’s modernist verse is delivered with collaborative flair, impeccable enunciation an considerable strength of personality

16th April 2017

Carole Boyd, actor, and Zeb Soanes, newscaster, find a variety of voices to entertain the listener, and Wilson is an expert, committed Waltonian.
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