Walton - Symphony No. 2
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Orchestral » Symphonies
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Walton: Symphony No. 2 & Cello Concerto
RecommendedPaul Watkins (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
If a new Walton release can finally put paid to the notion that his music somehow 'went off' after his move to the Italian island of Ischia in 1956, then this must be it. And the performances... —
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Building a Library, May 2015, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Walton: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Orb and Sceptre
RecommendedCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada
A thrilling performance, in short, of a powerful work [No. 2] that needs to get off the shelf and into our ears more often. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th March 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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One notoriously tricky passage after another…is brought off with top-flight panache and accuracy…Brilliant precision in the Scherzo, successful avoidance of over-emotive juice-extraction in... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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British Music Collection - William Walton - The Centenary Edition
RecommendedRobert Cohen (cello), Tasmin Little (violin), Paul Neubauer (viola), Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Decca's four-disc Walton Edition offers consistently fine versions of all the composer's most important orchestral works, some of them unsurpassed, in full, brilliant sound. Andrew Litton, the... —
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Building a Library, March 2002, Budget Choice
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Building a Library, October 2013, First Choice
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Brabbins never lets [the First] off the tight rein it requires, so that it sounds all the more powerful as a result: the ferocious climaxes are built and sustained with control, while the Andante... —
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Walton: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Nigel Kennedy (violin), Paul Tortelier (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, André Previn, Paavo Berglund, Louis Frémaux
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Bryden Thomson shows his feel for Walton's colours: atmospheric outer movements frame a sensuous central movement. —
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Walton: Johannesburg Festival Overture, Viola Concerto & Symphony No. 2
Lars Anders Tomter (viola)
English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel
Tomter displays impressive control in the virtuosic Scherzo, but he sounds oddly cautious at more than one point where recklessness and sheer dash would be welcome, and his shifts of tempo are... —
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Walton: Symphony No. 2 & Viola Concerto
Roberto Diaz (viola)
New Haven Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton
The Second Symphony is a wonderfully crafted work in which Waltonian electricity is not of such a high voltage as in the First. Nonetheless, William Boughton draws from the New Haven orchestra... —
