NEW WALTON CONCERTO
FEW months ago in a concert promoted by the Royal Philharmonic Society, a new Cello Concerto by William Walton (right) was performed for the first time in Europe by Gregor Piatigorsky, . who commissioned the work and earlier gave its first world performance in Boston. "The middle movement is a brilliantly effective scherzo of the familiar Waltonian type -all spiky rhythms and flying staccato semiquavers," said the Manchester Guardian; and of the long coda to the last movement: "His music here seems to have something of that characteristic quality of serenity and light that we associate with the music of composers in their old age." In the BBC transcription of this European premiere to be heard from YAs, 3YZ and 4YZ on November 24, Gregor Piatigorsky plays with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Malcolm Sargent.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 953, 15 November 1957, Page 18
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138NEW WALTON CONCERTO New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 953, 15 November 1957, Page 18
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