William Walton (1902-1983): Facade

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+Lambert: Suite aus Salome

  • Artist: Sprecher: Eleanor Bron Nash Ensemble, Lloyd-Jones
  • Label: Hyperion , DDD, 00
  • Order number: 3613160
  • Release date: 20.4.2001

Facade (für 2 Sprecher und Orchester) (Gesamtaufnahme)

  1. 1 Fanfare Start
  2. 2 Hornpipe Start
  3. 3 En famille Start
  4. 4 Mariner man Start
  5. 5 Aubade Start
  6. 6 Long steel grass Start
  7. 7 March Start
  8. 8 Water party Start
  9. 9 Through gilded trellises Start
  10. 10 Tango-Pasodoblé Start
  11. 11 The white owl Start
  12. 12 Gardener Janus catches a naiad Start
  13. 13 Said king pompey Start
  14. 14 Lullaby for Jumbo Start
  15. 15 Black Mr. Behemoth Start
  16. 16 Daphne Start
  17. 17 Tarantella Start
  18. 18 Small talk Start
  19. 19 The man from a far countree Start
  20. 20 By the lake Start
  21. 21 Country dance Start
  22. 22 Madame mouse trots Start
  23. 23 Came the great Popinjay Start
  24. 24 Polka Start
  25. 25 Four in the morning Start
  26. 26 Somenthing lies beyond the scene Start
  27. 27 Valse Start
  28. 28 The Octogenarian Start
  29. 29 The last galop Start
  30. 30 Jodelling song Start
  31. 31 Scotch rhapsody Start
  32. 32 Popular song Start
  33. 33 Fox-Trot: Old Sir Faulk
  34. 34 Sir Beelzebub

Suite from the incidental music to Salome

  1. 35 1. Prelude
  2. 36 2. Slow
  3. 37 3. Moderato

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Here is a new and complete recording of the unique and fascinating work, which brought William Walton's name and fame to the fore in the early 1920's. The history of Façade is extremely complex since there are over thirty extant numbers setting the virtuoso and extraordinary poems of Dame Edith Sitwell, and ever since its premiere different performances and recordings have assembled only some of them, and those in differing order.

This CD presents the complete extant numbers of Façade; in addition the booklet includes the dozen or so Sitwell poems which Walton either never set or which have been lost. The poems are spoken to Walton's widely differing 'orchestrations' by two well-known and popular personalities of the English stage and TV screen—Eleanor Bron and Richard Stilgoe.

The disc also includes the first recording of the incidental music to Salome by Constant Lambert, the fiftieth anniversary of whose death occurs this year. Lambert, of course, was involved with Façade from the beginning as he used to share the recitations with Dame Edith.

The front illustration reproduces John Piper's curtain design for the 1942 performances of Façade.

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'The playing of the Nash Ensemble is quite outstanding. Eleanor Bron, as one might expect, purrs her way contentedly through her texts’ (Hi-Fi News)

'This outstanding group of musicians has recorded a definitive and, for the first time on disc, totally complete Facade. David Lloyd-Jones, one of the great conductors of British music, elicits fabulous playing from The Nash' (The Yorkshire Post)

'Eleanor Bron and Richard Stilgoe make excellent reciters. The Nash Ensemble could not be more idiomatic in pointing the young Walton's sparkling parodies' (The Guardian)

'The Nash, as one would expect, is second to none in this music, extracting every last whiff of wit and textural audacity' (BBC Music Magazine)

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