BaL 4.03.23 - Walton: Viola Concerto

[Barbirollians]

Same problem playing it through the computer but could try that.

[HighlandDougie]

Sorry HighlandD, but I’m with ardcarp on this - and…


… please God, no

Bah! Humbug! At least he's not dull but it's the incessant playing to the gallery and being such a clever clogs that I find so irritating. No surprise to learn that he has a stage show.
OK, I wasn't being wholly serious about TS. Next time that A McG has a Saturday off, perhaps TS might stand in for him with DON doing the review ...

Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how to acquire the Pearl CD (Pearl GEM 0171) with the Riddle/Walton/LSO Decca recording? I have so far failed to do so.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how to acquire the Pearl CD (Pearl GEM 0171) with the Riddle/Walton/LSO Decca recording? I have so far failed to do so.

HD, one here if you're quick! https://www.discogs.com/release/2543...Premi%C3%A8res (unless it's the authentic surface noise on Pearl that you want!).

[HighlandDougie]

HD, one here if you're quick! https://www.discogs.com/release/2543...Premi%C3%A8res (unless it's the authentic surface noise on Pearl that you want!).

LMP

Many thanks - will follow up on Saturday when back in France as I see that the seller is based in the Netherlands

[teamsaint]

LMP

Many thanks - will follow up on Saturday when back in France as I see that the seller is based in the Netherlands

Not having very good experience with Discogs recently, as many buyers are Paypal only, which I won’t use currently, which is a shame as there are bits on there I would like to buy.

[Pulcinella]

Not having very good experience with Discogs recently, as many buyers are Paypal only, which I won’t use currently, which is a shame as there are bits on there I would like to buy.

You need to find a pal who uses PayPal.
(Not me, though!)

[Barbirollians]

Bah! Humbug! At least he's not dull but it's the incessant playing to the gallery and being such a clever clogs that I find so irritating. No surprise to learn that he has a stage show.
OK, I wasn't being wholly serious about TS. Next time that A McG has a Saturday off, perhaps TS might stand in for him with DON doing the review ...

Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how to acquire the Pearl CD (Pearl GEM 0171) with the Riddle/Walton/LSO Decca recording? I have so far failed to do so.

I have been searching for the Dutton as my Decca cassette of Hamilton Harty's recording of the Walton 1 has worn out and I think the Riddle was coupled with it.

[Master Jacques]

I too was reminded how much I love this piece. String concertos aren’t usually among my favourites, but this one - thanks to the Kennedy/Previn recording which I played times without number back in the day - used to vie for a place on the desert island… and might do so still. It helps that by some margin, I prefer the viola as a solo instrument to the violin or cello…

Spoken from the heart, and speaking for me also. For me, it was the Menuhin/Walton recording which started my love affair with a work which - unusually for string concertos - still moves and excites me, many years and hearings later.

DON astutely pointed to the fact that Menuhin "does a lot" with the work. Too much? Not when the artistry is so deeply satisfying. For me he makes every phrase 'conversational' to a degree which only Nigel Kennedy approaches. I enjoy Power on Hyperion, too, but that disc's special place in my collection is for the sublime case the soloist makes for Rubbra's concerto. But it's also good to have, for the original version of the Walton.

[edashtav]

Spoken from the heart, and speaking for me also. For me, it was the Menuhin/Walton recording which started my love affair with a work which - unusually for string concertos - still moves and excites me, many years and hearings later.

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. I enjoy Power on Hyperion, too, but that disc's special place in my collection is for the sublime case the soloist makes for Rubbra's concerto. But it's also good to have, for the original version of the Walton.

Your comments about the Rubbra [a favourite] and the reminder about ‘original version of the Walton [I have an original m.s. but only a Naxis ‘revised’ recording] have pushed me over the edge and I have ordered the Hyperion despite its ‘bum’ bass note. Many thanks.

[Darloboy]

The viola concerto has only been covered by BaL once before, by Bruce Wood in November 2007. His first choice was Power/Volkov & midprice choice was Kennedy/Previn. No change over the last 16 years then, except us DONophobes would have found the 2007 programme much easier listening.