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William Walton : Hamlet - A Shakespeare Scenario - As You Like It (arr.by Christopher Palmer) -

John Gielgud, narrator - Catherine Bott, soprano - The Academy of St.Martin in the Fields - Neville Marriner

It's a Finnwake personal rip (september 2010): 1 zip file with the 19 tracks on ape files (compressed from the original wave files), the 36 page booklet (in English, German, French), plus front and back cover.

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Sir William Turner Walton OM (29 March 1902 – 8 March 1983) was a British composer and conductor.

His style was influenced by the works of Stravinsky and Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic melody and brilliant orchestration. His output includes orchestral and choral works, chamber music and ceremonial music, as well as notable film scores. His earliest works, especially Edith Sitwell's Façade, brought him notoriety as a modernist, but it was with orchestral symphonic works and the oratorioBelshazzar's Feast that he gained international recognition.

From the cd notes by Christopher Palmer:

The success of Laurence Olivier's Henry V in 1944 led in 1948 to Hamlet. Again Olivier both directed and played the leading role. Walton started on the music in the autumn of 1947. [...] This was one of the most wretched times in Walton's life, since Lady Alice Wimborne, who had shared his life for some 12 years and had inspired some of his greatest music (The Finale of the First Symphony and the Violin Concerto), was terminally ill with cancer. She is died in April 1948, and it impossible not to feel that in Hamlet - in the Ophelia music, the soliloquys, the funeral march, most of all in the magnificent threnody which follows the multiple deaths in the duel scene - Shakespeare's bleak vision is compounded by Walton's own. [...]

As You Like It (1936), Walton's first film with Olivier (Orlando) is rarely screened today. Paul Czinner directed, David Lean was editor.

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Track List:

William Walton (1902-1983)

Hamlet : A Shakespeare Scenario

(arranged by Christopher Palmer)

[1] I.Prelude (3'09")

[2] II.Fanfare (0'57")

[3] Soliloquy (2'35")

[4] III.The Ghost (3'15")

[5] IV.Hamlet and Ophelia (7'52")

[6] V.The Question (2'20")

[7] "To be or not to be" (3'08")

[8-10] VI.The Mousetrap

[8] The Players (0'46")

[9] Entry of the Court (0'49")

[10] The Play (3'57")

[11] VII.Ophelia's Death (2'42")

[12] VIII.Retribution (1'59")

[13] Threnody (2'11")

[14] IX.Finale (Funeral March) (3'14")

John Gielgud, narrator

As You Like It : A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare

(arr.Christopher Palmer)

[15] I.Prelude (2'52")

[16] II.Moonlight (2'39")

[17] III.Under the Greenwood Tree (1'56")

[18] IV.The Fountain (3'12")

[19] V.Wedding Procession (1'51")

Catherine Bott, soprano

The Academy of St.Martin in the Field

Neville Marriner

total duration: 51'44"

Recorded: London, November 8-11, 1989.

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