Walton: The Complete Façades / Falletta, Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
September 9, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      William Walton
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Hila Plitman, Fred Child, Kevin Deas, Joann Falletta
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 09, 2022
    • UPC
      747313437870
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8574378
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Fanfare

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    2. I. Hornpipe

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    3. II. En Famille

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann, Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    4. III. Mariner Man

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann, Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    5. IV. Long Steel Grass

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    6. V. Through Gilded Trellises

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    7. VI. Tango-Pasodoblé

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    8. VII. Lullaby for Jumbo

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    9. VIII. Black Mrs. Behemoth

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    10. IX. Tarantella

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    11. X. The Man from a Far Countree

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    12. XI. By the Lake

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann, Fred Child, Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    13. XII. Country Dance

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    14. XIII. Polka

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    15. XIV. Four in the Morning

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    16. XV. Something Lies Beyond the Scene

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    17. XVI. Valse

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    18. XVII. Jodelling Song

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    19. XVIII. Scotch Rhapsody

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    20. XIX. Popular Song

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    21. XX. Fox-Trot, "Old Sir Faulk"

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    22. XXI. Sir Beelzebub

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann, Fred Child, Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    23. I. Flourish - Came the Great Popinjay

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    24. II. Aubade

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    25. III. March

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    26. IV. Madame Mouse Trots

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    27. V. The Octogenarian

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    28. VI. Gardener Janus Catches a Naiad

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    29. VII. Water Party

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    30. VIII. Said King Pompey

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    31. I. Small Talk

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    32. II. Daphne

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Hila Plitmann

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    33. III. The White Owl

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Kevin Deas

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta

    34. IV. The Last Galop

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players

      Performer: Fred Child

      Conductor: JoAnn Falletta


Edith Sitwell’s invitation to William Walton to collaborate on an innovative, revolutionary new work came at a critical moment in the young composer’s career, and Façade proved to be his first great success. The peerless combination of a peculiarly English dry wit, genuine pathos and superlative technical skill remains an extraordinary achievement. Sitwell’s verses conjure a satirical and poignant world of bourgeois late-Victorian England, while Walton’s settings unfailingly enhance and enrich the texts in a work in which words and music are unquestionably of equal importance. This release includes the first recording of Small Talk (1922) and three numbers first performed in 1977 but subsequently rejected by the composer.

REVIEW:

JoAnn Falletta is to be congratulated for bringing us Walton’s revisit of the piece in 1978 when he was 76, featuring eight more poems (the work’s original subtitle, “An Entertainment,” became “A Further Entertainment:). Falletta also includes some additional material, beginning with “Small Talk” from 1922 and three numbers from 1977, “Daphne,” “The White Owl,” and “The Last Galop”—the late ones have never been recorded before.

The special charm of this release is to be found in the acting skills of the narrators, now expanded from two to three. Falletta realized that Sitwell’s poems contain actual characters who could be brought vividly to life, and she has chosen her cast well. Hila Plitman is extremely versatile, sounding at times Russian or German in her delivery (she is actually Israeli). Fred Child is a vocally nimble PBS narrator, and well-regarded bass-baritone Kevin Deas comes across richly with an arch demeanor suggestive of the childlike nature of some of the poems. The result is extremely satisfying. Of course, the performance necessarily emerges sounding less British, less reserved and less formal, but we Americans have our own silly Ogden Nash tradition, and Façade is none the worse for a more extroverted American approach. Jo Ann Falletta and her Virginians play with sass and spark.

-- Fanfare