Canon
Where to start with Walton
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
OrchestralSymphony no. 1 in B flat minor
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VocalBelshazzar's Feast, for baritone, double chorus and orchestra
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Chamber2 Pieces for Violin and Piano
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Keyboard3 Pieces for Organ
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OrchestralViolin Concerto
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VocalFaçade, for reciter and ensemble
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OrchestralViola Concerto
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Orchestral2 Pieces for strings
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Vocal2 Songs for Tenor and Piano
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Vocal4 Christmas Carols, for chorus
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Chamber5 Bagatelles, for guitar
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VocalA Litany: Drop, drop, slow tears
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ChamberA Queen's Fanfare, for brass
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OrchestralA Shavian Sequence, suite for orchestra
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VocalA Song for the Lord Mayor's Table, song cycle for soprano
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Walton's catalogueMost Popular
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Viola Concerto
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Belshazzar\’s Feast (choral)
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Symphony No. 1
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Crown Imperial (march)
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Violin Concerto
Most Acclaimed
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Symphony No. 1 in B-flat minor
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Viola Concerto
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Violin Concerto
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Belshazzar\’s Feast
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String Quartet in A minor
Most Weird
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Façadeentertainment — Edith Sitwell’s abstract poems recited over chamber music; she spoke into a Sengerphone through a hole in a painted curtain; the words are designed to obscure their meaning
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Symphony No. 2underperformed, more harmonically complex than No. 1
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The Bear (opera)one-act comic opera after Chekhov — widow fights with debt collector, they fall in love
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Portsmouth Point (overture)after a Rowlandson print — chaotic, polyrhythmic; the most raucous overture he wrote
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Troilus and Cressida (opera)revised three times; critics were harsh; Walton never understood why
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 77
- Orchestral
- ● Symphony no. 1 in B flat minor
- ● Violin Concerto
- Viola Concerto
- 2 Pieces for strings
- A Shavian Sequence, suite for orchestra
- As You Like It — Film score
- Capriccio Burlesco
- Cello Concerto
- Christopher Columbus, radio music for speakers, soloists, chorus, guitar and orchestra
- Crown Imperial
- Escape Me Never, suite from the film score
- Facade for Reciter and Orchestra
- Façade Suite no. 1
- Façade Suite no. 2
- Hamlet — Film score
- Hamlet: A Shakespeare Scenario, arranged for speaker and orchestra
- Henry V — Film score
- Henry V: Suite for Chorus and Orchestra
- Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten
- Johannesburg Festival Overture
- Macbeth — Incidental music
- Major Barbara — Film score
- March: A History of the English-speaking Peoples, incidental music for television
- Music for Children, for orchestra
- Orb and Scepter
- Partita
- Portsmouth Point
- Prelude for orchestra
- Prologo e Fantasia, for orchestra
- Scapino
- Siesta, for small orchestra
- Sinfonia concertante, for orchestra with piano obbligato
- Symphony no. 2
- The Battle of Britain — Film score
- The First of the Few — Film score
- Three Sisters — Film score
- Troilus and Cressida, suite from the opera
- Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
- Variations on an Elizabethan Theme 'Sellinger's Round', for strings
- Vocal
- Belshazzar's Feast, for baritone, double chorus and orchestra
- Façade, for reciter and ensemble
- 2 Songs for Tenor and Piano
- 4 Christmas Carols, for chorus
- A Litany: Drop, drop, slow tears
- A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table, song cycle for soprano
- Anon in Love, song cycle for tenor and guitar
- Antiphon, for chorus and organ
- Cantico del sole
- Coronation Te Deum, for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra
- Façade no. 2, for reciter and ensemble
- Gloria, for alto, tenor, bass, double chorus and orchestra
- In Honour of the City of London, for double chorus and orchestra
- Jubilate Deo, for double chorus and organ
- King Herod and the Cock
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, for chorus and organ
- Missa Brevis, for double chorus and organ
- Set me as a seal upon thine heart
- The Twelve, anthem for chorus and organ
- Where does the uttered music go?
- Chamber
- 2 Pieces for Violin and Piano
- 5 Bagatelles, for guitar
- A Queen's Fanfare, for brass
- Anniversary Fanfare, for brass
- Façade Suite, for chamber ensemble
- Passacaglia, for cello solo
- Piano Quartet in D minor
- String Quartet no. 1
- String Quartet no. 2 in A minor
- Toccata, for violin and piano
- Violin Sonata
- Keyboard
- 3 Pieces for Organ
- Duets for Children, for piano 4-hands
- Valse from Façade, for piano
- Stage
- The Bear
- The First Shoot — Ballet
- The Quest — Ballet
- Troilus and Cressida — Opera