Belshazzar's Feast is a cantata by the English composer William Walton. It was first performed at the Leeds Festival on 8 October 1931, with the baritone...
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(Walton), a 1931 choral work by William Walton Belshazzar's Feast (band), an English folk music duo The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin, a 1989 Soviet...
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scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto, the First Symphony, and the British coronation...
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a barbershop group. Recent choral performances have included Belshazzar's Feast (Walton), the Requiems of Mozart, Verdi and Fauré, and Gloria by Poulenc...
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Incidental music to Hjalmar Procopé's play with the same name. Belshazzar's Feast by William Walton, composed in 1931. An oratorio based on the biblical text...
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Concerto, Belshazzar's Feast and the First Symphony as one of the "large-scale masterpieces on which … Walton's reputation securely rests". When Walton declined...
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Viola Concerto and the cantata, Belshazzar's Feast had established him as a prominent figure in British music. In 1932 Walton began work on a symphony. Always...
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that Walton had agreed at short notice to conduct an excerpt from his cantata Belshazzar's Feast. Walton and Brannigan entered, and bowed. Walton raised...
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In Honour of the City of London (category Compositions by William Walton)
was written for the Leeds Triennial Festival for which Walton had composed Belshazzar's Feast in 1931, but it failed to gain the popularity of the earlier...
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Façade (entertainment) (redirect from Popular Song (William Walton song))
which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish...
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The singing was called "spectacular, polished and vibrant". "W Walton – Belshazzar's Feast & J Rutter - Gloria". Symphony Choir of Johannesburg. 2017. Retrieved...
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Crown Imperial (march) (category Compositions by William Walton)
Music and Musicians Byron Adams describes the march in Walton's 1931 cantata Belshazzar's Feast as a parody of Elgar, but he finds Crown Imperial "a less...
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compositions by William Walton sorted by genre, date of composition, title, and scoring. Lloyd, Stephen (2001). William Walton: Muse of Fire. Woodbridge...
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When Nebuchadnezzar's son Belshazzar uses consecrated vessels from the Jewish temple as serving vessels for his extravagant feast, a hand appears and writes...
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The Viola Concerto by William Walton was written in 1929 and first performed at the Queen's Hall, London on 3 October of that year by Paul Hindemith as...
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music director). Berners was also friendly with William Walton. Walton dedicated Belshazzar's Feast to Berners, and Lambert arranged a Caprice péruvien for...
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William Walton was written between 1957 and 1960, and premiered in September 1960. It received a mixed reception at first: some critics thought Walton's music...
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William Walton's Cello Concerto (1957) is the third and last of the composer's concertos for string instruments, following his Viola Concerto (1929) and...
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Scapino is a short work for large orchestra by William Walton, described by the composer as a "comedy overture". It was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony...
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confronted at a triumphant feast with a reminder of their downfall is not unique to Shakespeare and may originate from Belshazzar's feast, as portrayed in the...
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Suite from Henry V (redirect from Henry V (Walton))
William Walton's music for the 1944 film Henry V has been arranged by several musicians for non-cinematic performances. The first suite was arranged in...
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Orb and Sceptre (category Compositions by William Walton)
Orb and Sceptre is a march for orchestra written by William Walton for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, on 2 June 1953...
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Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (category Compositions by William Walton)
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue is an orchestral composition by William Walton, arranged and extracted in 1942 from music he had written for the motion picture...
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Varèse: Ionisation Alexander Vustin: The Devil in Love William Walton: Belshazzar's feast Huw Watkins: Piano Concerto Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Die Soldaten...
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Talberg. Richard Jackson. Jonathan A. Talberg Walton, W. and Bernstein, L. Walton: Belshazzar's Feast; Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis. Atlanta...
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Oldham (choirmaster) & the London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Walton: Belshazzar's Feast Best Classical Performance Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with...
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with the PRSO of Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina and sir William Walton’s Belshazzar's Feast. The 80-voice choir is directed by Carmen Acevedo Lucío, also...
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William Walton's Sinfonia Concertante is a three-movement piece for piano and orchestra, first performed in 1928. The composer revised it extensively in...
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chorus for one of the earliest Dutch performances of William Walton's cantata Belshazzar's Feast. He was the first Dutch conductor of Igor Stravinsky's The...
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English composer William Walton, composed in 1925. The work was inspired by Rowlandson's print depicting Portsmouth Point. Walton recalled that the main...
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