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William Walton

Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto, the First Symphony, and the British coronation marches Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of a musician, Walton was a chorister and then an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. On leaving the university, he was taken up by the literary Sitwell siblings, who provided him with a home and a cultural education. His earliest work of note was a collaboration with Edith Sitwell, Façade, which at first brought him notoriety as a modernist, but later became a popular ballet score. In middle age, Walton left England and set up home with his young wife Susana on the Italian island of Ischia. By this time, he had ceased to be regarded as a modernist, and some of his compositions of the 1950s were criticised as old-fashioned. His only full-length opera, Troilus and Cressida, was among the works to be so labelled and has made little impact in opera houses. From Wikipedia (

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Walton: Crown Imperial: A Coronation March (Arr. Rutter)

Coronation Orchestra, Antonio Pappano, Matthew Jorysz, and William Walton

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Spitfire Fugue - from the film 'The First Of The Few'

Hallé Orchestra, William Walton, & Laurance Turner

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Walton: All This Time

The Choir of Westminster Abbey

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Walton: Make We Joy Now in This Fest

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Walton: Viola Concerto: I. Andante comodo

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Walton, Bax, Elgar: Marches; Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Symphony No. 1

2025

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Walton - Martinů

2024

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Walton & Dvořák: Cello Concerto - Cello Concerto, OP. 104, B. 191

2022

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Kernis: Air for Violin; Barber: Violin Concerto; Bloch: Baal Shem; Walton: Violin Concerto

2024

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Walton: Façade, an Entertainment (feat. Fenella Fielding & Michael Flanders)

2024

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Walton & Shostakovich String Quartets

2022

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Bowen & Walton: Viola Concertos

2024

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Works by Holst, Vaughan Williams, Walton and Butterworth (Live)

2023

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Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos

2024

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Conductor's Gallery, Vol. 1: Anthony Bernard, Sir William Walton

2023

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5 Bagatelles, C. 86: No. 2, Lento

Single • 2025

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Theme For A Prince

Single • 2022

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What Cheer?

Single • 2018

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Walton: Violin Concerto II. Presto capriccioso alla napolitana

Single • 2025

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String Quartet in A Minor: III. Lento

Single • 2022

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Walton: Capriccio burlesco (Recorded 1978)

Single • 2017

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Walton: Portsmouth Point

Single • 2025

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String Quartet in A Minor: II. Presto

Single • 2022

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Walton: Viola Concerto: II. Vivo, con molto preciso

Single • 2024

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Walton: The Wise Virgins

EP • 2022

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What Cheer? (VOCES8) Music Video Christmas Card

Jeffrey Stivers • 2.9K views

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🎵 Walton - Crown Imperial (arr. for Organ) #coronation #kingcharles

Richard McVeigh | BEAUTY IN SOUND • 28K views

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Tango-pasodoble (W. Walton, EL CONCIERTAZO)

jose antonio Quiles • 8.2K views

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William Walton - Crown Imperial - Coronation March

The Wicked North • 166K views

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Dvorak: Cello concerto 2. Pierre Fournier, G. Szell

brumap1 • 3.7K views

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Ensemble Corund performs William Walton: Make We Joy Now in this Fest

dingoandfox • 13K views

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William Walton- Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

Alexander Humala • 32K views

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Orb and Sceptre

HAFABRA Music - Louis MARTINUS • 7.2K views

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Walton - Passacaglia (1982) for solo cello [w/ score]

AdamMusicWorld | Adam Schreiber • 47K views

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Sir William Walton: Crown Imperial - Coronation March

Jayne Anne Strutt • 9.4K views