Façade (Walton)
from Walton: Façade (CDA67239)
1 Fanfare [0'36]
2 Hornpipe [1'09]
3 En famille [2'37]
4 Mariner Man [0'32]
5 Aubade [3'26]
6 Long steel grass [1'56]
7 March [0'49]
8 Water party [1'01]
9 Through gilded trellises [2'06]
10 Tango-Pasodoblé [1'42]
11 The white owl [1'06]
12 Gardener Janus catches a naiad [0'49]
13 Said King Pompey [0'35]
14 Lullaby for Jumbo [1'24]
15 Black Mrs Behemoth [0'52]
16 Daphne [1'49]
17 Tarantella [1'09]
18 Small talk [1'27]
19 The man from a far countree [1'25]
20 By the lake [1'33]
21 Country dance [1'52]
22 Madame Mouse trots [0'47]
23 Came the great popinjay [1'12]
24 Polka [1'12]
25 Four in the morning [1'57]
26 Something lies beyond the scene [0'52]
27 Valse [3'01]
28 The octogenarian [1'11]
29 The last galop [1'28]
30 Jodelling song [2'07]
31 Scotch rhapsody [1'08]
32 Popular song [1'51]
33 Fox-trot 'Old Sir Faulk' [1'43]
34 Sir Beelzebub [0'58]
49 minutes 22 seconds 34 tracks
‘Eleanor Bron and Richard Stilgoe make an excellent pair of reciters, and the recoding in a natural acoustic balances them well. [Stilgoe] is the most fluent Façade reciter I have ever heard, with phe ...
‘The Nash, as one would expect, is second to none in this music, extracting every last whiff of wit and textural audacity’ (BBC Music Magazine)
‘Eleanor Bron and Richard Stilgoe make excellent reciters. The Nash Ensemble could not be more idiomatic in pointing the young Walton's sparkling parodies’ (The Guardian)