MOZART~ Sinfonia Concertante , K.364 - DANIEL BARENBOIM/Staatskapelle Berlin This is a work that really put composer William Walton on the map. His Viola Concerto quickly became an established part of ...

9. William Walton: Viola Concerto "Walton wrote this concerto for Tertis in 1929, but Tertis rejected the piece and thought it was too modern for his tastes. At the premiere of this concerto ...

David Owen Norris chooses his favourite recording of William Walton's Viola Concerto. It was conductor Sir Thomas Beecham's suggestion that Walton should write a viola concerto for the virtuoso ...

The Viola Concerto (1928-29) was the first work to fully proclaim Walton’s genius. This is music that is somehow virtuosic but not showy, bold and exuberant in places yet profoundly intimate, tinged ...

Music director Alasdair Neale conducts on a program that also features principal violist Jenny Douglass as soloist in the Walton Viola Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Sun.

Nils Mönkemeyer’s nicely balanced programme starts with Walton’s Concerto for viola and orchestra, played with a specific feel for the music’s bittersweet mood, and with the soloist ...

The Violin Concerto is the second of Walton’s three string concertos. The others – for Viola (1928–9, revised 1936–7, 1961) and for Cello (1955–6, rev. 1975) – share the same three ...

And performances of those works can be few and far between. Before Thursday, William Walton’s viola concerto, written in 1929, was last performed by the ASO in 1992 when Reid Harris sat in his ...

The razor-sharp payoff added to the electricity. It should always be there in the Walton Viola Concerto, a typically personable blend of the lyrical, the jazzy and the dissonant. But I wonder if a ...

His playing finds the languor and mischievousness in Walton's early Viola Concerto, but above all the unusual air of melancholy that hangs over what is essentially young man's music. The advantage ...