Family Affairs
With Peggy Reynolds. In 1922, the first private performance of Walton's Facade, with words by Edith Sitwell , took place in Chelsea at the home of her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell.
Edith was famous both for her poetry and for her striking looks - she was described as having the ethereality of a ghost. Osbert was also a poet, and Sacheverell was probably the most musical of them all, a close friend of the harpsichordist Violet Gordon Woodhouse.
Watton Facade (excerpts) Edith Sitwell (reciter),
English Opera Group Ensemble, conductor Anthony Collins
Lambert The Noisy Streets Are Empty (The Rio Grande) BBC Singers,
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
Lord Bemers Red Roses and Red
Noses Felicity Lott (soprano), Peter Lawson (piano)
Britten Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain
Peter Pears (tenor), Barry Tuckwell (horn), the Composer (piano)