William Walton

Many scores by composers such as William Walton, Arthur Bliss, John Barry, and Miklos Rozsa are as evocative and memorable as any opus from the nineteenth century, and can stand alone apart from their original inspiration.

The Rule of Reason 2010

During World War II, Laurence Olivier not yet Sir made a film of Shakespeare's most unabashedly patriotic play, Henry V. The background score was by the eminent British composer William Walton, whose music is played too seldom in our concert halls.

Howard Kissel: Wagner, Walton and an English Country Lad Howard Kissel 2011

But it once more took off in Britain with Britten's triumph with Peter Grimes in 1945, which marked the inauguration of another major career that spurred on such contemporaries and successors as Michael Tippett, William Walton and Harrison Birtwistle.

Opera through the ages 2011

During World War II, Laurence Olivier not yet Sir made a film of Shakespeare's most unabashedly patriotic play, Henry V. The background score was by the eminent British composer William Walton, whose music is played too seldom in our concert halls.

Howard Kissel: Wagner, Walton and an English Country Lad Howard Kissel 2011

Until then, he points to the lyrical music of William Walton, Gustav Holst or Vaughan Williams.

Anthony Burgess archive reveals vast body of previously unseen work 2011

During World War II, Laurence Olivier not yet Sir made a film of Shakespeare's most unabashedly patriotic play, Henry V. The background score was by the eminent British composer William Walton, whose music is played too seldom in our concert halls.

Howard Kissel: Wagner, Walton and an English Country Lad Howard Kissel 2011

During World War II, Laurence Olivier not yet Sir made a film of Shakespeare's most unabashedly patriotic play, Henry V. The background score was by the eminent British composer William Walton, whose music is played too seldom in our concert halls.

Howard Kissel: Wagner, Walton and an English Country Lad Howard Kissel 2011

During World War II, Laurence Olivier not yet Sir made a film of Shakespeare's most unabashedly patriotic play, Henry V. The background score was by the eminent British composer William Walton, whose music is played too seldom in our concert halls.

Howard Kissel: Wagner, Walton and an English Country Lad Howard Kissel 2011

Instead of spending Christmas 1929 with his mother, William Walton gave as his excuse the need to get to work "on this thing for the BBC".

Belshazzar's Feast; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Christmas project – review 2011

Here's one such example: a collection of Bach transcriptions for piano, not by that master of transcribers, Ferruccio Busoni, but by a veritable Who's Who of 20th-century British composers – from Granville Bantock to William Walton.

Bach: A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen and other British transcriptions, Jonathan Plowright (piano) 2010