William Turner Walton
Born: 29th March 1902, Oldham, England
Died: 8th March 1983, Ischia, Italy
Nationality: English
Sir William Turner Walton 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.
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Kazuki Yamada on Walton
19th Mar 2026
The Japanese conductor discusses his recent recording of the symphonies with the CBSO, settling into life in Birmingham, his first brush with English music as a high-school student, and inspirational visits to Ischia, Malvern and Aldeburgh.
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Walton from the CBSO and Kazuki Yamada
6th Mar 2026
Kazuki Yamada leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in rhythmically taut accounts of Walton's symphonies, demonstrating his firm understanding and love of the music, and the deep bond he has built with the masterful players of one of the UK's finest orchestras, captured live in superb sound by Deutsche Grammophon.
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Popular Works: Walton
- A Litany 'Drop, drop slow tears' (26)
- All this time (17)
- Anon in Love for tenor and guitar (9)
- Belshazzar's Feast (31)
- Cello Concerto (52)
- Coronation Te Deum (33)
- Crown Imperial (118)
- Façade - An Entertainment (27)
- Façade Orchestral Suite No. 1 (23)
- Façade Orchestral Suite No. 2 (13)
- Five Bagatelles for solo guitar (29)
- Henry V - Suite (9)
- Jubilate Deo (25)
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (10)
- Make we joy now in this fest (20)
- Missa Brevis (9)
- Orb and Sceptre (63)
- Partita for Orchestra (12)
- Passacaglia - Death of Falstaff and Touch her soft lips from Henry V (14)
- Passacaglia for solo cello (11)
- Piano Quartet (13)
- Popular Song from 'Façade' (12)
- Portsmouth Point Overture (25)
- Scapino: A Comedy Overture (19)
- Set me as a seal upon thine heart (38)
- Siesta (13)
- Sonata for String Orchestra (13)
- Spitfire Prelude & Fugue (34)
- String Quartet in A Minor (15)
- Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor (47)
- Symphony No. 2 (19)
- The Twelve (19)
- The Wise Virgins: Ballet Suite (10)
- Touch her soft lips and part (from Henry V) (26)
- Variations on a Theme by Hindemith (10)
- Viola Concerto (40)
- Violin Concerto (55)
- Violin Sonata (20)
- What cheer? (16)
- Where does the uttered music go? (11)
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