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Concerto for violoncello and orchestra : arrangement for cello and piano / William Walton.

By: Walton, William, 1902-1983.
Contributor(s): Douglas, Roy, 1907-2015.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Edition: Second edition.Description: 1 score (43 pages) + 1 part (19 pages) ; 31 cm.ISBN: 9780193367692 .Subject(s): Concertos (Cello) -- Solo with pianoDDC classification: C/538
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General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending C/538 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00168224
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Cello and piano reduction of Walton's Cello Concerto, based on the edition published in the Walton Edition Violin and Cello Concertos volume. Dating from 1956, the work was commissioned by Gregor Piatigorsky and premiered by him the following year. Walton regarded this work as the best of his three solo concertos. Orchestral material is available on hire.

Piano reduction by Roy Douglas.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sir William Walton was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1902, the son of a choirmaster and a singing-teacher. He became a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and then an undergraduate at the University. His first composition to attract attention was a piano quartet written at the age of sixteen. At Oxford he made the acquaintance of the Sitwells who gave him friendship, moral and financial support and in 1922 he collaborated with Edith in devising the entertainment Belshazzar's Feast. From 1922 to 1927 Walton began to spend an increasing amount of time abroad, notably in Switzerland and Italy. The war years were devoted mainly to writing film and ballet scores and he became established as amongst the greatest composers for the screen.