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Walton - English Choral Music
Director of Music: 
Christopher Robinson
Organ Scholar: 
Christopher Whitton
Record Label: 
Naxos
Catalogue Number: 
8.555793
Release Date: 
Jan 2002
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Working over a span of some sixty years, William Walton created a relatively small body of sacred choral music that includes some of the finest works in the canon. The Twelve, Coronation Te Deum, and Set me as a seal are enduring masterpieces to be heard in churches and cathedrals across the English-speaking world.

Notes: 

Oliver Lepage-Dean (treble), Edward Lyon (tenor)

Reviews: 

"Strong, atmospheric, vividly sung ... the sort of bite one can imagine the composer having in mind, with Waltonian syncopations wonderfully idiomatic in their crisp articulation." Gramophone 2002

Track Listing: 
Coronation Te Deum, Walton
A Litany: Drop, drop slow tears, Walton
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, Walton
Where does the uttered music go?, Walton
Jubilate Deo, Walton
Henry V: Touch her soft lips and part, Walton
Cantico del Sole, Walton
Henry V: Passacaglia - Death of Falstaff, Walton
The Twelve, Walton
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, Walton
Antiphon, Walton
Missa Brevis, Walton

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