Walton - Façade - An Entertainment
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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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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... —
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Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra - The Columbia Stereo Collection
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Editorial Achievement of the Year
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Walton: Façade, an Entertainment
Michael Flanders (narrator), Fenella Fielding (narrator), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
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Sir William Walton: A Centenary Celebration
Roderick Williams (baritone), Tamsin Dalley (mezzo-soprano), Kevin Whately (narrator), Orchestra of the Swan, Bruce O'Neil
Bruce O’Neil (who serves as Head of Music at the Royal Shakespeare Company) masterminds a commendably communicative display and secures spirited results from his seven-piece ensemble drawn from... —
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Walton: Façade - An Entertainment
Richard Baker, Susana Walton, narrators, City of London Sinfonia, Hickox
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Special offer. Gerhard: The Plague, Walton: Façade & Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
National Symphony Orchestra Chorus, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Antal Dorati, London Sinfonietta, Sir William Walton, Argo Chamber Ensemble, Gennady Zalkowitsch
s[The Gerhard is] tunningly performed and engineered. —
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William Walton - Façade
Eleanor Bron & Richard Stilgoe (reciters)
The Nash Ensemble, David Lloyd-Jones
The Façade entertainment – poems by Edith Sitwell to music by the then-unknown William Walton – was an amorphous creation, a collection of over 40 poems and settings built up over the years... —
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Special offer. Walton: Façade - An Entertainment
Carole Boyd & Zeb Soanes (reciters)
Ensemble, John Wilson
[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... —
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Holst: The Planets & Walton: Façade
Vera Zorina (speaker)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy
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