William Walton’s “Facade”-70 years young this year-is one of those works that has become increasingly rare in our humorless times, a genuinely delicious entertainment that wears its wit and ...

There is a teasing question about this memoir-the life and times of the British composer Sir William Walton, as told by his widow. It is the author`s intentions. Either Lady Walton truly adored her ...

Invaluably, this BBC Legends disc gives us live radio recordings of works that Walton never recorded in the studio. Despite an uncharacteristic lapse near the start of the Cello Concerto, Pierre ...

Thursday’s all-Walton programme at the Royal Opera’s Linbury Studio Theatre paired two very silly music-theatre pieces, Façade and The Bear, in a concert by the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme.

The music came through loud and clear – in the case of the percussion, very loud. The band of six, excellently led by the understated but authoritative Oliver Zeffman, played with the necessary wit ...

Donald Macleod looks at William Walton's modest roots and how his talent and some opportune meetings saw him placed right at the heart of the social scene of 1920s London. Born in Oldham when the town ...