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Title: Walton: Violin Concerto; Portsmouth Point; Suite from Troilus & Cressida
Artist: Charlie Lovell-Jones
Label: Chandos
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 095115536025
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-04-04
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD

Sinfonia of London and John Wilson start a new series of recordings of works by Sir William Walton with this album featuring Charlie Lovell-Jones as soloist in the Violin Concerto. Lovell-Jones has soloed with major orchestras internationally, broadcasting on radio and television. As leader of the multi-award-winning Sinfonia of London, he has performed at the BBC Proms and recorded numerous albums, and is the winner of a number of significant international competitions. Commissioned by Jascha Heifetz, the Concerto was premiered in 1939, in America, and was enthusiastically received. Inspired by Walton's friend and lover Alice Wimborne, the work is extremely lyrical and passionate in nature, sporting a wild, virtuosic Tarantella as the second movement. Alice was also a driving force behind the inception of Walton's first grand opera, Troilus and Cressida, composed over almost a decade, largely after her untimely death. Here we hear the four-movement orchestral suite compiled in 1987 by Christopher Palmer, at the instigation of Lady Walton and his lifelong publisher OUP. Walton's overture Portsmouth Point is the earliest work on the album, premiered in 1926.

Tracks:
1.4 Symphonic Suite from 'Troilus and Cressida'~IV. Finale. Lugubre - Con moto - Allegro - Alla marcia (sempre maestoso) - Più mosso - Maestoso triomfale - A tempo, Tranquillo - Tutta Forza
1.5 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra~I. Andante tranquillo - A tempo con moto - Subito molto più mosso [e] con brio - Poco a poco più agitato -[Cadenza] - A tempo con moto - Vivace subito - Poco meno mosso - A tempo I (ma assai più lento che prima)
1.8 Portsmouth Point: Overture