William Walton - Façade - An Entertainment Album

Tracklist

1	Country Dance	1:52
2	Four In The Morning	2:12
3	Popular Song	1:59
4	Tango-Pasodoble	1:57
5	En Famille	2:58
6	Something Lies Beyond The Scene	1:02
7	Sir Beelzebub	1:02
8	Mariner Man	0:42
9	Valse	3:11
10	A Man From A Far Countree	1:28
11	Polka	1:22
12	Tarantella	1:19
13	Fox-trot "Old Sir Faulk"	2:04
14	Lullaby For Jumbo	1:46
15	Long Steel Grass	1:52
16	By The Lake	1:43
17	Yodelling Song	2:09
18	Through Gilded Trellises	2:19
19	Hornpipe	1:12
20	Black Mrs Behemoth	0:52
21	Scotch Rhapsody	1:24
22	Fanfare	0:29

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CFP 4564	Fenella Fielding And Michael Flanders With Members Of The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Conducted By Sir Neville Marriner	Fenella Fielding And Michael Flanders With Members Of The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Conducted By Sir Neville Marriner - Sir William Walton's Façade, An Entertainment With Poems By Dame Edith Sitwell ‎(LP)	EMI	CFP 4564	UK	1989
450 136-2 10, 450 136-2	William Walton	Façade (A Perennial British Favourite By Edith Sitwell And William Walton) ‎(CD)	Belart, Belart	450 136-2 10, 450 136-2	Australasia	1994
S-36837	Fenella Fielding And Michael Flanders With Members Of The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Conducted By Sir Neville Marriner	Fenella Fielding And Michael Flanders With Members Of The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Conducted By Sir Neville Marriner - Sir William Walton's Façade, An Entertainment With Poems By Dame Edith Sitwell ‎(LP, Album)	Angel Records	S-36837	US	1972
R-02609, R. 02609	William Walton	Façade - An Entertainment ‎(LP, Album, Club)	World Record Club, World Record Club	R-02609, R. 02609	Australia	1976
R-02609, R. 02609	William Walton	Façade - An Entertainment ‎(LP, Album, Club, RE)	World Record Club, World Record Club	R-02609, R. 02609	Australia	1978

Credits

• Alto Saxophone, Directed By – Stephen Trier
• Bass Clarinet – Hale Hambleton
• Cello – Kenneth Heath, Ross Pople
• Clarinet – Jack Brymer
• Composed By – Sir William Walton
• Conductor – Sir Neville Marriner
• Engineer – Neville Boyling
• Flute, Other [Piccolo] – William Bennett
• Liner Notes – Alan Frank
• Percussion – Tristan Fry
• Producer – Christopher Bishop
• Text By – Edith Sitwell
• Trumpet – John Wilbraham

Notes

Recorded 24 December 1971, Kingway Hall.

"An H.M.V. recording, released for its members in Australia by World Record Club."

Australian WRC 2nd or 3rd pressing, sourced from original stampers and featuring unique sleeve art. Identifiable by the absence of a laminate strip down the right side of the back of the sleeve. Issued in June 1977 and January 1978 (pressing variations, if any, unknown). "R. 02609" on sleeve, "R-02609" on labels.

World Record Club: Registered Office - 605 Camberwell Road, Hartwell, Victoria, 3124.

Barcodes

• Matrix / Runout (Side 1 label): 2YEA4425
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2 label): 2YEA4426
• Matrix / Runout (Side 1 runout - stamped): 2YEA4425 2YAA1588
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2 runout - stamped): 2YEA4426 2YAA1589

Companies

• Licensed From – His Master's Voice
• Published By – B & H

Album

The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Façade poems in 1918, in the literary magazine Wheels. In 1922 many of them were given an orchestral accompaniment by Walton, Sitwell's protégé. The entertainment was first performed in public in 1923, and achieved both fame and. Popular Song - Ralph Vaughan Williams. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Façade, for reciter & ensemble. William Walton. Sheila Amit, Benjamin Luxon. Альбом 2014 Песен: 12. More William Walton. Listen to Façade An Entertainment now. 2014 The Digital Gramophone Ltd. Legal Privacy Cookies About Ads. Walton: Façade. Jacob Suite William Byrd Walton Crown Imperial, Holst Hammersmith Prelude and Scherzo, Symphonic Songs of Band and Williams Fanfare and Allegro. Frederick Fennell, Eastman Wind Ensemble. The Elizabethan Singers. 2014 Original Album. Philharmonia Orchestra: Symphonies. Philharmonia Orchestra. Walton Façade's producer, Andrew Keener has blogged for Gramophone about the recording process of the album. He says: I hope that our recording is not only up there with the most vivid, spontaneous-sounding and amusing versions, but more accurate than most. Read more to find out how they managed it The idea of casting a recording of Waltons Façade, with an Archers and a BBC Radio 4 friendly audience in mind, had been bubbling in the back of my mind for quite a few years. With Carole Boyd Lynda Snell in The Archers and Zeb Soanes newsreader and presenter, we have on t. Its the accompanying mélange of little-known songs and piano duets by Walton and Lambert that are the real joy of this album. Lambert was perhaps the most naturally gifted English musician of the century, apart from Benjamin Britten, and was a captivating human being as well. One of Lamberts colleagues said his enthusiasm flowed like a torrent drenched like a fountain