Walton Symphony No.1

Another English composer to end the night with.

William Walton - Symphony No. 1

In musical terms, this work is a landmark of English composition and represents the peak of Walton's symphonic thinking. The two composers in favour in 1930s England were Beethoven and Sibelius, advocated by Constant Lambert in his book Music Ho!. Walton cleverly draws on both sources: the first movement is written in Beethovenian sonata form, and the developmental procedures clearly derive from Beethoven. But within this skeletal frame, the first movement is shot through with smaller Sibelius-like motifs (such as the opening horn call) which run throughout the movement and bind it together. The thematic rigour and shattering emotional power of the movement — and the Symphony as a whole — may be attributed to this unique method of musical construction.


Played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

You've Been Tagged

Just arrived back, after doing two high class visits in Canterbury and another one at Bluewater. Now i am in love with Tag Heur watches, having visited three high class jewelers.



Tomorrow is a relax day, apart from doing the reports for the visits done today.

Plus a diet of Buffy and Charmed perhaps.

Somerset Rhapsody

Continuing the English composer theme here is another r lovely piece of idyllic Arcadian reverie.

Gustav Holst - A Somerset Rhapsody, Op. 21 No. 2 (1907)

One of Holst's rare orchestral works,
Conductor : David Lloyd-Jones,
Royal Scottish National Orchestra.