CBSO/Litton – review

Town Hall, CheltenhamAndrew Litton has long had an affinity with the music of William Walton: his Grammy-winning disc of Belshazzar's Feast followed the symphonies, and he also recorded a centenary disc, all with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, whose conductor laureate he still is. But in this performance of the First Symphony with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra he realised such an urgency and defiance in the opening Allegro as to suggest a conviction that this work – written in...

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