William Walton: Complete Song Collection

William Walton: Complete Song Collection

DCD34328 (Delphian Records, CD)

DDD
24-bit stereo
FIRST RELEASE (25 October 2024)

Playing time: 53'42"
Tracks: 22
Booklet pages: 24
℗ 2024 Delphian Records
© 2024 Delphian Records
Main country of recording: United Kingdom
Country of manufacture: European Union
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of William Walton: Complete Song Collection published on 5 November 2024

Siân Dicker soprano
Krystal Tunnicliffe, piano
Saki Kato, guitar

William Walton:

1-6 A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table

7-12 Anon in Love

13-16 Four Early Songs (first recording of the complete set)

17 Triton

18 Under the greenwood tree

19 Beatriz's Song (Christopher Columbus)

20-22 Three 'Façade' Settings

'These Walton songs are really terrific', wrote the great accompanist Gerald Moore; 'everything WW does is impressive – why the devil doesn't he write more songs?' From early experiments, via Edith Sitwell settings that build on the success of Façade, to music for the silver screen and two well-loved cycles heard here in their original intimate versions with piano and guitar, the complete collection fits on a single album. But what an album! Four decades after Walton's death, three imaginative young artists bring fresh voices to the feast, revelling with infectious enjoyment in the composer's endlessly beguiling inventiveness and sparkling wit.

Recorded 5-7 January 2024 in St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, UK.

 

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