My comparisons, coupled with Symphony No.1 (Chandos CHSA5136). Released in 2014, this is the most recent of
Tasmin Little re-recorded the Walton Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony In the Violin Concerto is now download or streaming only. The valuable 4-CD Decca budget collection which includes Tasmin Little Kang and Paul Daniel, with Tim Hugh in the Cello Concerto (8.554325 – The only comparable bargain comes from Naxos: a recording with Dong-Suk Review): you may be lucky enough to find the odd copy for around £5. Yet this is my benchmark version, especially attractive whenĪvailable until very recently as part of a super-budget twofer (with CelloĪnd Viola Concertos, Symphony No.1 and Sinfonia Concertante: Arguably the first movement is a shade removed from tranquillo and the 1950 sound is less than ideal, though good for Not surprisingly, the tempi on this recordingĪre a good deal faster than with Menuhin or, indeed, on the new Hyperion Walton himself: there was an earlier version with Jascha Heifetz, stillĪvailable to stream or download on RCA for as little as £3.49, coupled with Menuhin was not, of course, the only violinist to record the work with Multi-CD box) but I don’t regret having got to know the work from that Or with Symphony No.1 and Belshazzar, also download only, or Of technical ability when he recorded it with William Walton himselfĬonducting, released in 1958 (Warner, download only, with Viola Concerto, Yehudi Menuhin may no longer have been at the peak We certainly did not lack very good recordings of the Walton ViolinĬoncerto, old and new.
And that’s mentioning only the releases that I have sampled to On the music of renaissance composer John Sheppard ( Media Vita,ĬDA68187). (CKD538 – not quite rivalling Karajan’s two recordings), from King’sĬollege, Cambridge, a fine recital and a rare opportunity to hear StephenĬleobury play the restored organ ( The King of Instruments, KGS0020)Īnd from the Hallé Wagner’s Lohengrin live which may not hit the topįlight vocally but is well worth hearing (CDHLD7539).įor August Westminster Cathedral Choir give us a valuable alternative take There’s Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen and other works from Linn Their traversal of the music of Guillaume de Machaut ( Sovereign Beauty, CDA68134) and Trinity College Choir, Cambridge,ĭirected by Stephen Layton, sing some of the music of their alumnus SirĬharles Villiers Stanford (CDA68174). Which challenges existing recommendations, the Orlando Consort continue July and August often find the recording labels treading water but that’s Reviewed as 24/96 download with pdf booklet from City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow, September 2013 Variations on a Theme by Hindemith (1963) īBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins Support us financially by purchasing this from
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