Walton: The Wise Virgins

Emotion runs high in Walton's music: the breakdown of a love affair gives restless energy to the First Symphony, new love inspires the Violin Concerto, and married happiness on a Mediterranean island shines through in the Cello Concerto and Second Symphony.

The first ATMA recording by l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec (Quebec City Symphony Orchestra) of transcriptions of music by Debussy was a huge success and now ATMA present transcriptions of music by J S Bach. Conductor Yoav Talmi has not necessarily chosen the transcriptions you might expect. Of course we have Stokowski’s Toccata & Fugue in D minor but there are also transcriptions by William Walton, Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, and even Anton Webern and Ottorino Respighi.