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Composer of the Week: Walton

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With Donald Macleod. 5: Return to Italy In October 1948 in Buenos Aires, Walton met and proposed to a young Argentinian girl, Susana Gil , and married her in December. A year later Walton visited the island of Ischia with his new wife. It was here that he completed his opera Troilus and Cressida, and where he continued to compose until the end of his life in 1983. 0 Stay Sweet Love (Anon in Love)
Peter Pears (tenor), Julian Bream (guitar) Troilus and Cressida (excerpt)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano),
Richard Lewis (tenor), Philharmonia, conducted by the Composer
Cello Concerto (1st mvt) Gregor Piatigorsky , Boston SO, conducted by the Composer The Bear (excerpt)
Alan Opie (baritone), Northern Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
Five Bagatelles Julian Bream (guitar)

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Susana Gil
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Tenor:
Julian Bream
Soprano:
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Tenor:
Richard Lewis
Unknown:
Gregor Piatigorsky
Baritone:
Alan Opie
Conductor:
Richard Hickox
Source: Radio Times

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