Sir William Walton was a very successful conductor of his own music - especially after being advised to keep his left hand in his pocket! EMI gathered all the Columbia recordings he had made with the Philharmonia Orchestra in Kingsway Hall into this box set in 1982. I've already posted Belshazzar's Feast, and this time it's the turn of the Partita For Orchestra.
Invited by the Cleveland Orchestra to produce a work for their 40th anniversary season, Walton composed a work which he described as posing "no problems, has no ulterior motive or meaning behind it, and makes no attempt to ponder the imponderables. I have written it in the hope that it may be enjoyed straight off, without any preliminary probing into the score. I have also written it with the wonderful players of the Cleveland Orchestra in mind, hoping that they may enjoy playing it. If either of these two hopes is fulfilled, I shall be more than happy."
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