Walton: Choral Works (1993)

At the tender age of ten, William Walton was sent, by his father, down from Lancashire to Oxford to join the Christ Church Cathedral Choir. It is not too much to say that the move completely changed his life: he went from being an indifferent piano and violin student to being an excellent chorister, then a composer of works for his choir, then, and after less than 20 years, the composer who established his reputation with his choral-orchestral masterpiece, Belshazzar's Feast. The debt Walton owed Christ Church Cathedral ... Read More

At the tender age of ten, William Walton was sent, by his father, down from Lancashire to Oxford to join the Christ Church Cathedral Choir. It is not too much to say that the move completely changed his life: he went from being an indifferent piano and violin student to being an excellent chorister, then a composer of works for his choir, then, and after less than 20 years, the composer who established his reputation with his choral-orchestral masterpiece, Belshazzar's Feast. The debt Walton owed Christ Church Cathedral Choir is incalculable.So, too, is the debt Christ Church Cathedral Choir owes Walton. Although historically one of England's best cathedral choirs, it had not, until Walton joined them, had an incipient great composer among its singers. In this recording of the shorter choral works of Walton, both debts are paid in full. Walton's music affords the choir a superb opportunity to demonstrate its abilities, and the choir, under the skillful direction of Stephen Darlington, gives Walton's... Read Less

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