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Oeuvre: Orb and Sceptre, Coronation March

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CompositeurWalton, William (1902-1983)
ÉpoqueDébut du 20ème siècle
Type d'œuvreOrchestrale
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BirminghamKazuki conducts Shostakovich's 5th Symphony

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Walton, Ravel, Chostakovitch
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Alice Sara Ott
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Yamada and the CBSO’s Walton expedition at the Elbphilharmonie

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In Hamburg, Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO navigate the thorny brilliance of Walton’s First Symphony, proving that ‘difficult’ music can offer an evening’s most profound human connection.

Walton 2–0 Elgar: triumph and failure for the CBSO at Symphony Hall

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Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO give an aimless, flabby account of Elgar’s Violin Concerto, but a rambunctious reading of Walton is filled with delirious joy. 

Prom 31: BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds play coronation music, Bruch and Korngold

Prom 31 seems to have been loosely based around a royal theme, with two of several nods at this year’s Proms to the Coronation anniversary: explicitly, in the case of William Walton’s Orb and Sceptre march, which he wrote for the 1953 ceremony, and obliquely by way of Edmund Rubbra’s Ode to the Queen, which the BBC commissioned for the Coronation celebrations.