Sir William Walton
English composer and arranger. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto, the First Symphony, and the British coronation anthems Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre. Born on March 29, 1902 in Oldham, Lancashire, England and died on March 8, 1983 in Ischia, Italy.
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Cello Concertos
Elgar*, Walton*, Gautier Capuçon, Antonio Pappano, London Symphony Orchestra
2024
Momentum 1
Liya Petrova, Walton*, Respighi*
2023
Mirare
CD
Walton: Cello Concerto (Arr. For Viola & Orchestra By Anna Serova) - Roberto Molinelli: Lady Walton's Garden
Sir William Walton, Roberto Molinelli, Anna Serova, Orchestra Haydn Di Bolzano E Trento
2023
Naxos
File, FLAC
Decca Conductors’ Gallery
Ernest Ansermet, Eduard van Beinum, Anthony Bernard, Leo Blech, Sergiu Celibidache, Albert Coates, Piero Coppola, Roger Désormière, George Enescu, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Sir Hamilton Harty, Paul van Kempen, Erich Kleiber, Hans Knappertsbusch, Clemens Krauss, Jean Martinon, Willem Mengelberg, Victor De Sabata, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir William Walton, Sir Henry Wood, Carlo Zecchi
2023
Decca
21xCD, Comp, Mono, RM + Box
Symphony No. 2 Plus Spitfire Prelude & Fugue
BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, BBC Concert Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka, Adrian Boult*, William Walton*
2022
BBC Music Magazine
CD
A Centenary Celebration
William Walton*, Roderick Williams (3), Tamsin Dalley, Kevin Whately, Orchestra Of The Swan, Bruce O'Neil
2022
Somm
CD, Album
String Quartet In A Minor / String Quartet No. 3 In F Major, Op. 73
Walton*, Shostakovitch*, Albion Quartet
2022
Signum Classics
9xFile, AAC, Album, 256
Façade (Complete) (plus bonus works)
Tony Randall (3), Arthur Fiedler, Sir William Walton, Edith Sitwell
2022
Dutton Epoch
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Comp, Quad, RM
Symphony No.1 / Crown Imperial / Suite For Four Hands
Walton*, Vaughan Williams*, Lynn Arnold, Charles Matthews (2)
2021
Albion Records (5)
CD
British Solo Cello Music
Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Britten, Sir William Walton, John Gardner (5), Frank Merrick, Thomas Adès
2021
Hyperion
CD, Album
Twentieth-Century Violin Sonatas
Max Rostal, Elgar* • Walton* • Delius* • Mihalovici* • Ravel* • Busoni*, Monique Haas • Colin Horsley • Noel Mewton-Wood*
2021
Decca
2xCD, Comp, RM
Troilus & Cressida
Walton* - Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla*, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
2021
Deutsche Grammophon
4xFile, FLAC, 24
English Guitar Music Of The 20th Century
Berkeley*, Britten*, Scott*, Walton* - Andrea Dieci
2021
Brilliant Classics
CD, Album
The British Project
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla*, Elgar*, Britten*, Walton*, Vaughan Williams*, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
2021
Facade
Edith Sitwell, Sir William Walton
2020
Moochin' About, [PIAS] Recordings
10", Album, Ltd, RE, RM
Piano Quartet • Violin Sonata • Toccata
Walton*, Matthew Jones (2), Sarah-Jane Bradley, Tim Lowe (3), Annabel Thwaite
2020
Naxos
CD, Album
Heroes
Walton*, Grisi*, Prokofiev* / Adrien La Marca, Liège Philharmonc Orchestra*, Christian Arming
2020
La Dolce Volta
CD, Album
British Violin Sonatas
William Walton*, William Alwyn, Kenneth Leighton, Lennox Berkeley, Alan Rawsthorne, Gordon Jacob, Clare Howick, Simon Callaghan
2020
Somm Recordings
CD, Album
Cello Concerto; Don Quixote
Zuill Bailey, William Walton*, Richard Strauss, North Carolina Symphony, Grant Llewellyn, Roberto Diaz (2)
2020
Steinway & Sons
CD, Album
Facades
William Walton*, Constant Lambert, James Geer, Andrew West, Ronald Woodley
2020
Somm Recordings
CD, Album
Philharmonia Orchestra - Birth of a Legend
Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Guido Cantelli, Arturo Toscanini, Paul Kletzki, André Cluytens, Sir William Walton, Otto Klemperer, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Charles Mackerras, Otto Ackermann, Henry Krips, Nicolai Malko, Robert Irving, Artur Rodzinski, George Weldon, Wolfgang Sawallisch
2020
Warner Classics
24xCD, Comp, RM
Karajan Rare Documents
Herbert von Karajan, Bruno Giuranna, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giorgio Tadeo, Heinrich Sutermeister, Sir William Walton, Hans Werner Henze, Giorgio Federico Ghedini
2020
Urania Records (4)
2xCD
Confini
Walton*, Bonometti*, Bartok*, Romero*, Sacco*, Ligeti* - Coritage Saxophone Quartet : Guido Consoli, Lorenzo Ricchelli, Matteo Tamburlin, Roberto Genova
2019
Stradivarius
CD, Album
Sonata; Suite
William Walton*, Benjamin Britten, Wanchi Huang, Robert Koenig
2019
Centaur Records
CD, Album
Viola Concerto / Partita For Orchestra / Sonata For String Orchestra
Walton*, James Ehnes, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
2018
Chandos
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
Violin Concerto No. 1 | Viola Concerto | The Lark Ascending
Sergei Prokofiev / William Walton* / Ralph Vaughan Williams, Isabelle van Keulen, NDR Radiophilharmonie
2018
Challenge Classics
CD, Album
Motherland
Bartók* / Dvořák* / Shor* / Walton*, David Aaron Carpenter, Vladimir Jurowski | Kazushi Ono | David Parry, London Philharmonic Orchestra
2018
Warner Classics
2xCD, Album
Music For Brass Septet • 6
Elgar*, Finzi*, Parry*, Walton*, Septura
2018
Naxos
CD
Cello Abbey
Nadège Rochat, Staatskapelle Weimar, Paul Meyer, Walton*, Boyle*, Elgar*
2017
Ars Produktion
SACD, Multichannel
Violin Concerto ∙ Partita ∙ Hindemith Variations
Walton*, Anthony Marwood, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
2017
Hyperion
CD, Album
The Bear
Walton* - Della Jones · Alan Opie · John Shirley-Quirk, Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
2017
Chandos
CD, Album, RE
William Walton, Max Bruch, Arvo Pärt
William Walton*, Max Bruch, Arvo Pärt - Nils Mönkemeyer, Bamberger Symphoniker, Markus Poschner
2017
Sony Classical, Sony Music, BR-Klassik
CD, Album
Concerto For Violin And Orchestra / Concerto For Violin And Orchestra (Original Version)
Arthur Bliss / William Walton*, Lorraine McAslan, BBC Concert Orchestra Conducted By Martin Yates (2)
2017
Dutton Epoch
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
English Works For Viola And Orchestra
Arnold Bax, William Walton*, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hong-Mei Xiao, Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV*, János Kovács*
2017
Delos
CD, Album
Symphonies 1 & 2
Sir William Walton, Kirill Karabits, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
2017
Onyx (6)
CD, Album
Even Such Is Time (Finzi – Leighton – Howells – Walton)
The Choir Of Christ's College, Cambridge, David Rowland, Gerald Finzi, Kenneth Leighton, Sir William Walton, Herbert Howells
2017
Regent Records
CD, Album
BBC Legends Volume 2
David Oistrach, Sir Thomas Beecham, Sviatoslav Richter, Arthur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau, Arturo Toscanini, Myra Hess, Andrés Segovia, Carlo Maria Giulini, Kirsten Flagstad, Géza Anda, Igor Stravinsky, Borodin String Quartet, Benjamin Britten, Victoria De Los Angeles, Yehudi Menuhin, Eduard van Beinum, Pierre Monteux, Sir William Walton, Walter Gieseking
2017
ica Classics
20xCD, Comp, Mono, Ltd, RE, Box
Elgar & Walton Cello Concertos
Elgar*, Walton*, Paavo Järvi, Philharmonia Orchestra, Steven Isserlis, Holst*, Imogen Holst
2016
Hyperion
CD, Album
Violin Concerto · Viola Concerto · Violin Sonata
Yehudi Menuhin · William Walton*
2016
Warner Classics
15xFile, FLAC, MP3, Comp, 320
Symphony No. 2 / Cello Concerto / Improvisations On An Impromptu Of Benjamin Britten
Walton*, Paul Watkins (3), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
2015
Chandos
SACD, Hyb
London Concert
William Walton*, Philharmonia Orchestra And Chorus*, André Previn, Kyung-Wha Chung, Thomas Allen
2015
Arthaus Musik
DVD
British Violin & Cello Concertos
Benjamin*, Moeran*, Bax*, Walton*
2015
Lyrita Recorded Edition
2xCD, Comp, Mono, RM
Poulenc / Walton / Dallapiccola / Schnittke / Silvestrov
Duo Gazzana - Poulenc* / Walton* / Dallapiccola* / Schnittke* / Silvestrov*
2014
ECM Records, ECM Records, ECM New Series, ECM New Series
CD, Album
Symphony No.1 • Violin Concerto
Walton*, Tasmin Little, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
2014
Chandos
SACD, Hybrid, Album
Symphony No. 2 / Viola Concerto
William Walton*, The New Haven Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton
2014
Nimbus Alliance
CD, Album
Cello Concertos
Paul Hindemith, Sir William Walton, Christian Poltéra, OSESP*, Frank Shipway
2014
BIS
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel + CD
William Walton / Alfred Schnittke
William Walton*, Alfred Schnittke, Yuri Bashmet, Dmitri Kitayenko*
2014
Мелодия
CD, Album, RE, RM
The British Music Collection
Elgar* • Britten* • Delius* • Walton* • Vaughan Williams* • Davies* • Arnell* • Berners*
2013
Sony Classical, Sony Music
12xCD, Mono + Box, Comp
British Violin Sonatas Volume One
Walton* / Ferguson* / Britten*, Tasmin Little, Piers Lane
2013
Chandos
CD, Album
The Live Icelandic Recordings 2002-2003 - Volume 2
Erling Bløndal Bengtsson, William Walton*, Aram Khatchaturian, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Zuohuang Chen, Damian Iorio
2013
Danacord
CD, Album
Nocturnal
Stefano Grondona - Benjamin Britten, William Walton*, Toru Takemitsu, Richard Rodney Bennett
2013
Stradivarius
CD, Album
Symphonies 1 & 2; Violin Concerto; Viola Concerto; Cello Concerto
Walton*
2012
Decca
2xCD, Album, RM
The Very Best Of English Song
Britten* · Byrd* · Delius* · Elgar* · Parry* · Purcell* · Stanford* · Vaughan Williams* · Walton* - Sir Thomas Allen* · Dame Janet Baker* · Ian Bostridge · Alfred Deller · Emma Kirkby · Anthony Rolfe Johnson · Robert Tear
2012
EMI Classics, EMI Classics
Box, Album, Comp + 5xCD, Comp, Mono, RM
The Collector's Edition
Walton*
2012
Music For Voice & Guitar
Peter Pears, Julian Bream - Britten*, Racine Fricker*, Walton*
2012
Symphonies
Walton* / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
2011
Hyperion
CD, Album
String Quartets
Walton*, Doric String Quartet
2011
Chandos
CD, Album
Violin Concertos
Walton* • Castelnuovo-Tedesco* - Jascha Heifetz
2011
Naxos Historical
CD, Comp
20th-Century Classics
Marriner* & The Academy* / Barber* • Bartók* • Britten* • Prokofiev* • Schoenberg* • Shostakovich* • Strauss* • Stravinsky* • Walton*
2011
Decca, Argo (2)
10xCD, RE, RM + Box, Comp
Symphonies 1 & 2 - Violin Concerto - Cello Concerto - The Wise Virgins
Walton* - Nigel Kennedy, Paul Tortelier, Sir Charles Mackerras, André Previn, Paavo Berglund, Louis Frémaux
2011
EMI Classics, EMI Classics
2xCD, Comp
Symphony No. 1, Violin Concerto
Salvatore Accardo, Philharmonia Orchestra, Louis Frémaux, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox, Sir William Walton
2011
Alto
CD, Album
British Composers
Benjamin Britten, Sir William Walton, Sir Michael Tippett
2011
EMI Classics
5xCD, RE, RM
Belshazzar's Feast / Symphony No 1
Walton* - Sir Colin Davis, Peter Coleman-Wright, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
2011
Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 1
William Walton* - New Haven Symphony Orchestra*, William Boughton, Kurt Nikkanen
2010
Nimbus Alliance
CDr, Album
Walton: Façade - An Entertainment / Siesta / Scapino / Portsmouth Point / Orb and Sceptre / Bax: Coronation March, 1953 / Bliss: Welcome the Queen
Walton*, Bax*, Bliss* - Edith Sitwell, Peter Pears, Anthony Collins (2), Adrian Boult*, Malcolm Sargent*, Arthur Bliss
2010
Decca
CD, Album, Comp
Cello Concerto・Cello Concerto No.1
Jamie Walton - Walton* ; Shostakovich* - Philharmonia Orchestra, Alexander Briger
2010
Signum Classics
CD, Album
The Symphonies
Walton*, Orchestre National de Lille*, Owain Arwel Hughes
2010
BIS
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
Symphony No. 1
Walton*, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
2009
BBC Music
CD
British Music
Simon Rattle*, Elgar*, Vaughan Williams*, Holst*, Grainger*, Walton*, Arnold*, Maw*, Knussen*, Matthews*, Adès*, Turnage*
2009
EMI Classics
11xCD, Comp + Box
Walton Conducts Walton / Symphony No.1 • Belshazzar's Feast • Violin Concerto • Viola Concerto • Partita For Orchestra
Walton* / Yehudi Menuhin, Donald Bell, Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra
2009
EMI Classics
2xCD, Comp
Sir Adrian Boult Conducts Walton
Sir Adrian Boult, Walton*, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus*, Dennis Noble
2009
Somm
CD, Comp
Walton • Prokofiev • Kabeláč • Ravel • Dvořák
Prague Symphony Orchestra*, Zdeněk Košler & Václav Smetáček, Peter Katin, Walton* • Prokofiev* • Kabeláč* • Ravel* • Dvořák*
2008
Orchestral Concert CDs
CD, Album
Follies & Façades
Dame Edith Sitwell* – William Walton* / Lord Berners
2008
Él
CD, Comp
Rodrigo, Clerch, De Falla, Walton, Strawinsky
Rodrigo* - Clerch* - De Falla* - Walton* - Stravinsky* - Joaquín Clerch, The Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra*, Michael Helmrath
2008
Duo-Phon-Records
2xCD, Album
Thaxted Festival 2008
Hertfordshire Chorus, Holst*, Vaughan Williams*, Walton*
2008
Hertfordshire Chorus
CDr
Great Proms Premieres: Walton Viola Concerto; Ireland Piano Concerto; Guto Puw ... Onyt Agoraf Y Drws ...
Walton*, Ireland*, Guto Puw*, Nobuko Imai (viola), Kathryn Stott (piano), BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra
2008
Façade
Kit & The Widow*, Southbank Sinfonia Ensemble*, David Corkhill, Edith Sitwell, William Walton*
2007
The Classical Recording Company
CD, Album
1938-1951 Recordings
Louis Kentner, Liszt*, Chopin*, Walton*, Balakirev*
2007
Naxos Historical
CD
Best Of British From The BBC Proms 2007
Britten* | Delius* | Elgar* | Knussen* | Bennett* | Tippett* | Walton* - BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus* | Jiří Bělohlávek | Sir Andrew Davis* | Stephen Jackson | Oliver Knussen
2007
Deutsche Grammophon
2xCD, Album
Vaughan Williams: Greensleeves - Concertos - Delius - Walton
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederick Delius, Sir William Walton, Pinchas Zukerman, Daniel Barenboim
2007
Deutsche Grammophon
CD, Comp, RE
Partita For Orchestra / La Mer / Symphony No. 3 / Music For Royal Fireworks / Symphony No. 3 / Paris / Don Juan
Silvestri*, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra - Walton* / Debussy* / Rachmaninov* / Handel* / Beethoven* / Delius* / Strauss*
2007
BBC Music
2xCD, Comp, Mono
Symphony No. 1 / Viola Concerto
Walton*, André Previn, Yuri Bashmet, London Symphony Orchestra
2007
RCA Red Seal
CD, Comp, RE, RM
Viola Concertos • Meditations On A Byzantine Hymn
Walton*, Rubbra* / Lawrence Power (2), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
2007
Symphony No. 1, Scapino, Siesta
William Walton*
2006
Arte Nova Classics
CD, Comp
British Orchestral Collection
Arnold*, Britten*, Elgar*, Holst*, Vaughn Williams*, Walton*
2006
Naxos
25xCD, Comp + Box, Comp
English Symphonies Collection
Arnold*, Bax*, Elgar*, Rawsthorne*, Walton*, Vaughan Williams*
2006
Naxos
25xCD, Comp + Box
British Composers And Other Rarities
Sir Granville Bantock*, Billy Mayerl, Norman O'Neill, Walter Leigh, Sir Eugene Goossens, Sir William Walton, John St. Anthony Johnson*, Hubert Clifford, Montague Phillips
2006
Dutton
CD, Mono
Violin Concertos
Barber* / Korngold* / Walton* / James Ehnes, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey
2006
Cello Concertos
Daniel Müller-Schott, André Previn, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra*, Elgar*, Walton*
2006
Viola Concerto In A Minor - Suite for Viola And Orchestra - Elegy - Viola Concerto in C Minor
Walton*, Vaughan Williams*, Howells*, Bowen*, Helen Callus, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Marc Taddei
2006
Lachrymae - Music for Strings
The Chamber Orchestra Of Europe, Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten, Arvo Pärt, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir William Walton, Sir Michael Tippett
2006
Symphony No 1
Walton* - Sir Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra
2006
String Quartet Opus 135 / Sonata For Strings
Beethoven*, Walton*, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
2005
Channel Classics
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
Symphonies - Concertos: Violin - Viola - Cello
Walton*, Chung*, Neubauer*, Cohen*, Ashkenazy*, Previn*, Litton*
2005
Decca
2xCD, Comp
The Rio Grande • Concerto For Piano & Nine Players • Elegiac Blues • Elegy • Symphony No.2
Lambert*, Walton* / André Previn • Sir Richard Rodney Bennett* • Neville Dilkes
2005
EMI Classics, EMI Classics
CD, Comp, RM
Great Violists
William Primrose, Berlioz*, Walton*, Casadesus*
2005
Naxos Historical
CD, Comp
Christopher Columbus / Hamlet And Ophelia
William Walton*, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales Conducted By Richard Hickox
2005
Chandos
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album, DSD
Façade An Entertainment
Sir William Walton, Dame Edith Sitwell*, James Stuart (6), Kent State University Sinfonia, Louis Lane
2004
Operetta Archives
CD, Album
Belshazzar's Feast
Sir William Walton
2004
Naxos
CD
Sea Pictures / Coronation Te Deum / Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra / November Woods
Elgar*, Walton*, Britten*, Bax*
2004
Warner Classics
CD, Album
Allegramente
Sir William Walton
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Sir William Walton
Henry V - Suite (arr. Mathieson) (1994 Digital Remaster): 1. Overture: The Globe Playhouse
Sir William Walton
Henry V - Suite (arr. Mathieson) (1994 Digital Remaster): 4. Touch her soft lips and part
Sir William Walton
Violin Concerto (revised version) (1994 Digital Remaster): II. Presto capriccioso alla napolitana - Trio (Canzonetta) - Tempo I
Sir William Walton
Cantico del Sole
Sir William Walton
Henry V - Suite (arr. Mathieson) (1994 Digital Remaster): 2. Passacaglia: The Death of Falstaff
Sir William Walton
Crown Imperial: A Coronation March
Sir William Walton
Musette In D Major 'Anna Magdalena
Sir William Walton
Crown Imperial
Sir William Walton
Henry V - Suite (arr. Mathieson) (1994 Digital Remaster): 3. Charge and Battle
Sir William Walton
Tema- Andante con moto
Sir William Walton
The Young Siegfrieds
Sir William Walton
Henry V - Suite (arr. Mathieson) (1994 Digital Remaster): 5. Agincourt Song
Sir William Walton
Coda- A tempo primo
Sir William Walton
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1956): I. Moderato
Sir William Walton
Dogfight
Sir William Walton
Violin Concerto (revised version): II. Presto capriccioso alla napolitana - Trio (Canzonetta) - Tempo I
Sir William Walton
Luftwaffe Victory
Sir William Walton
Finale: Battle of Britain March
Sir William Walton