More Accolades for the NHSO’s William Walton Volume 1
From The Sunday Telegraph
August 1, 2010
by Michael Kennedy
If William Walton’s music has rather gone out of fashion since his centenary in 2002, performances like this make one wonder why. The Violin Concerto is surely one of the 20th century’s finest romantic concertos, and is marvellously well played here by the American violinist Kurt Nikkanen with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra under its music director William Boughton. The orchestra has access, via Yale, to a very large number of Walton’s original scores and these will be used in future recordings of his works. If they are all as good as this savage performance of the First Symphony, fashion will doubtless swing back his way.
