Virginia arts festival chamber orchestra^kevin deas^hila plitman^fred child –

Complete facades

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.

Country of Pressing	US
Artist	Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Orchestra^Kevin Deas^Hila Plitman^Fred Child
Released	2022
Music Genre	Classical
Label	NAXOS
Condition	New
UPC	747313437870
SKU	al-747313437870

1.1 Façade - An Entertainment~Fanfare
1.2 Façade - An Entertainment~Hornpipe
1.3 Façade - An Entertainment~En Famille
1.4 Façade - An Entertainment~Mariner Man
1.5 Façade - An Entertainment~Long Steel Grass
1.6 Façade - An Entertainment~Through Gilded Trellises
1.7 Façade - An Entertainment~Tango-Pasodoblé
1.8 Façade - An Entertainment~Lullaby for Jumbo
1.9 Façade - An Entertainment~Black Mrs Behemoth
1.10 Façade - An Entertainment~Tarantella
1.11 Façade - An Entertainment~The Man from a Far Countree
1.12 Façade - An Entertainment~By the Lake
1.13 Façade - An Entertainment~Country Dance
1.14 Façade - An Entertainment~Polka
1.15 Façade - An Entertainment~Four in the Morning
1.16 Façade - An Entertainment~Something Lies Beyond the Scene
1.17 Façade - An Entertainment~Valse
1.18 Façade - An Entertainment~Jodelling Song
1.19 Façade - An Entertainment~Scotch Rhapsody
1.20 Façade - An Entertainment~Popular Song
1.21 Façade - An Entertainment~Fox-Trot 'Old Sir Faulk'
1.22 Façade - An Entertainment~Sir Beelzebub
1.23 Façade 2 - A Further Entertainment~Flourish - Came the Great Popinjay
1.24 Façade 2 - A Further Entertainment~Aubade
1.25 Façade 2 - A Further Entertainment~March
1.26 Façade 2 - A Further Entertainment~Madame Mouse Trots
1.27 Façade 2 - A Further Entertainment~The Octogenarian
1.28 Façade 2 - A Further Entertainment~Gardener Janus Catches a Naiad
1.29 Façade 2 - A Further Entertainment~Water Party
1.30 Façade 2 - A Further Entertainment~Said King Pompey
1.31 Façade: Small Talk
1.32 Façade: Daphne
1.33 Façade: The White Owl
1.34 Façade: The Last Galop