DCD34328-CD

William Walton: Complete Songbook

GLOBAL RELEASE DATE: 25 OCTOBER 2024

‘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.

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Release Date: 25 October 2024
Catalogue No: DCD34328
Total playing time: 53:42

Recorded on 5-7 January 2024 in St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington
Producer/Engineer: Paul Baxter
24-bit digital editing: Jack Davis
24-bit digital mastering: Paul Baxter

Piano: Steinway model D, 2016, serial no. 600443
Piano technician: Norman Motion

Design: John Christ
Booklet editor: Henry Howard
Cover image: William Coates-Gibson / Firefly
Session photography: William Coates-Gibson / foxbrush.co.uk

Delphian Records Ltd – Edinburgh – UK www.delphianrecords.com

 

 


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