SIR
WILLIAM WALTON (1902-1983)
Façade. An Entertainment Carole
Boyd and Zeb Soanes, reciters
Ensemble 7×3
Joshua Batty (flute/piccolo)
James
Burke (clarinet/bass clarinet)
Howard McGill (alto saxophone)
Alan Thomas
(trumpet)
Alex Neal (percussion)
Richard Harwood and Pierre Doumenge (cellos)
Director:
John Wilson | Reviews
Overview "Listeners
to BBC Radio 4 will already be familiar with Carole Boyd (aka Lynda Snell in The
Archers) and Zeb Soanes (newsreader and announcer on Today, PM, The News Quiz
and the Shipping Forecast), the reciters on this new recording of Walton's evergreen,
giddily inventive Fagade. Their alliance with the customarily attentive John Wilson
and his razor-sharp seven-piece ensemble is infectiously enjoyable."
Andrew
Achenbach, Gramophone (June 2017) "Under
John Wilson's direction the seven musicians are wonderfully alert, giving us music
full of dazzle and vibrancy, yet with a subtlety too."
Robert
Hugill, Planet Hugill (May 2017)
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