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A Litany 'Drop, drop slow tears' (2)A Litany: Drop, drop, slow tears (9)
A Queen's Fanfare (3)
A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table (5)
A Wartime Sketchbook (3)
» Prologue
All this time (10)Anniversary Fanfare (3)
Anon in Love (5)
Antiphon (arr. Christopher Palmer) (1)
Antiphon (3)
As You Like It: A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare (arr. Christopher Palmer) (1)
As You Like It: Under the greenwood tree (1)
Bagatelles (5) (arr. Roberto Genova) (1)
Bagatelles (5) (arr. for guitar and orchestra) (1)
Bagatelles (5) (excerpts) (1)
Bagatelles (5) (13)
Battle of Britain: Suite (2)
Beatriz's Song (arr. Christopher Palmer) (1)
Beatriz's Song (2)
Belshazzar's Feast (12)
Cantico del Sole (2)
Capriccio Burlesco (1)
Cello Concerto (17)
Christopher Columbus: A Musical Journey (1)
Coronation Te Deum (arr. John Rutter) (1)
Coronation Te Deum (arr. S Preston and M Blatchly) (3)
Coronation Te Deum (9)
Crown Imperial (arr. Herbert Murrill) (1)
Crown Imperial (arr. Herbert Murrill for piano duet) (1)
Crown Imperial (arr. W. J. Duthoit) (1)
Crown Imperial (20)
Daphne (2)
Duets for Children (3)
Escape Me Never (1)
Facade (additional numbers) (1)
Facade 2: A Further Entertainment (1)
Facade: Ballet Suite (2)
Facade Settings (3) (arr. Christopher Palmer) (1)
Facade Settings (3) (3)
Facade Suite no.1 (arr. Constant Lambert for piano duet) (1)
Facade Suite no.1 (5)
» II Valse
» I Polka
Facade Suite no.2 (arr. Constant Lambert for piano duet) (1)Facade Suite no.2 (5)
Facade Suite no.3 (arr. Christopher Palmer) (1)
Facade (15)
Gloria (2)
God save the Queen (1)
Hamlet: A Shakespeare Scenario (arr. Christopher Palmer) (1)
Hamlet: Funeral March (1)
Hamlet: Prelude (1)
Hamlet and Ophelia (1)
Henry V (chamber version, arr. Edward Watson) (1)
Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario (arr. Christopher Palmer) (2)
Henry V: Suite (3)
Henry V: Two Pieces for Strings (8)
Henry V (15)
» Prologue
Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten (2)In Honour of the City of London (1)
Johannesburg Festival Overture (1)
Jubilate Deo (arr. Christopher Palmer) (1)
Jubilate Deo (7)
King Herod and the Cock (4)
Macbeth: Fanfare and March (arr. Christopher Palmer) (1)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Chichester Service) (1)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (2)
Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence (arr. Chistopher Palmer) (1)
Make we joy in this fest (5)
Make we joy now in this fest (2)
March for 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples' (arr. Tom Winpenny for organ) (1)
March for 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples' (2)
Missa Brevis (6)
» Gloria
Music for Children (3) » Allegro
Nunc Dimittis (1)Old Sir Faulk (1)
Orb and Sceptre (arr. John Challenger for organ) (1)
Orb and Sceptre (arr. William McKie/Christopher Herrick) (1)
Orb and Sceptre (17)
Partita for Orchestra (6)
Passacaglia for Solo Cello (6)
Piano Quartet in D minor (8)
Pieces (2) for violin and piano (arr. for viola and piano) (1)
Pieces (2) for violin and piano (2)
Portsmouth Point (arr. Constant Lambert) (1)
Portsmouth Point (8)
» Overture
Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario (arr. Christopher Palmer) (1)Richard III: Prelude (2)
Scapino: A comedy overture (5)
Serenade For Strings (1)
Set me as a seal upon thine heart (14)
Siesta (7)
Sinfonia Concertante (original 1926 version) (3)
Sitwell Songs (3) (1)
Sonata for String Orchestra (arr. Simon Cox for brass septet) (1)
Sonata for String Orchestra (3)
Spitfire Fugue (arr. Fernie) (1)
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (arr. Tom Winpenny) (1)
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue (12)
» Prelude
String Quartet (1922) (1)String Quartet in A minor (7)
Symphony no.1 in B flat minor (arr. Herbert Murril for piano duet) (1)
Symphony no.1 in B flat minor (16)
Symphony no.2 (7)
Tema (per Variazoni) per cello solo (1)
The Bear (2)
The Chichester Service (1)
The First Shoot (2)
The Quest (2)
The Three Sisters: Music for the Film (1)
The Twelve (8)
The Winds (3)
The Wise Virgins: Ballet Suite (5)
Theme for a Prince (1)
Through gilded trellises (1)
Toccata for Violin and Piano (3)
Tritons (3)
Troilus & Cressida: Symphonic Suite (arr. Christopher Palmer) (1)
Troilus & Cressida (3)
Troilus and Cressida (excerpts) (1)
Under the Greenwood Tree (3)
Variations on a Theme by Hindemith (4)
Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (1)
Viola Concerto (1962 version) (4)
Viola Concerto (14)
Violin Concerto (original version) (1)
Violin Concerto (19)
Violin Sonata (9)
What cheer? (9)
Where does the uttered music go? (8)
Sir William Turner Walton OM (29 March 1902 – 8 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto and the First Symphony.
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