![]() Let me join the list of people, most of them far more qualified than I, who have refuted Lebrecht’s specious and tendentious argument. Indeed, the quality and importance of several of the recordings included here make it arguably the most desirable and important of the centenary tributes so far issued.Īt the beginning of this year Norman Lebrecht argued in a rather absurd polemic in the Daily Telegraph that Walton was a composer of fairly minor significance with no works of real stature to his name and a portfolio of inconsistent quality. So, can this BMG set compete, containing as it does just five works and lacking Belshazzar’s Feast? The short answer is that it can compete very well. Decca’s 4-disc set has the advantage of being pretty comprehensive as regards major works and is priced very reasonably. EMI’s set, then, has the imprimatur of the composer itself. The centenary of the birth of Sir William Walton has already occasioned several commemorative issues including significant collections from both Decca and EMI, the latter a reissue on 3 CDs of the bulk of their utterly indispensible ‘Walton Edition’. Amazon clearly have their pricing wrong on this 2CD set.
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