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Work: Orb and Sceptre, Coronation March

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ComposerWalton, William (1902-1983)
PeriodEarly 20th century
Work typeOrchestral
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Walton, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Bruce Liu

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Bruce Liu

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Walton, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Bruce Liu
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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.

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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. 
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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.
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