Walker, Timothy

A Portrait of Alan Hacker

1 CD / The Classics Label / 2006-10-01

Works: Anonymous, Greek: First Delphic Hymn to Apollo; Harrison Birtwistle: Interludes (4) for a Tragedy, for basset clarinet & tape; Io Passion; Steve Beresford: Avril Brisé, for soprano saxophone, ...
Performers: Axel Breuch; Beresford, Steve [Instrumentalist]; Burnett, Richard [Piano]; Druce, Duncan; Hacker, Alan; Ikuko Nishida; Kettel, Gary; Pas, Jan; Roland Heuer; Rowland-Jones, Simon; Steve Prusslin; Walk...

Argento: Shadow and Substance / Haskin, Triestram

1 CD / Deux Elles / 2006-04-01

Works: Dominick Argento: Elizabethan Songs (6) for high voice & chamber ensemble; Letters from Composers, for voice & guitar; To Be Sung Upon the Water, for high voice, piano & clarinet
Performers: Haskin, Howard; Mayer, Tansie; Triestram, David; Walker, Timothy

Sad to say, Dominick Argento, along with Gian-Carlo Menotti, is among the last of the great Italian-American composers. Argento has become identified with his vocal...continue...

Tippett: King Priam / Atherton, London Sinfonietta

2 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-11-21

Works: Michael Tippett: King Priam, opera in 3 acts
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Bailey, Norman; Bowen, Kenneth; Hall, Peter; Harper, Heather; Hirst, Linda; Langridge, Philip; Minton, Yvonne [Soprano Vocals]; Murray, Ann; Palmer, Felicity; Tear, Robert; Walker, Tim...
Conductors: Atherton, David
Ensemble: London Sinfonietta Chorus

"The performance and the clean, transparent recording are in short fully worthy of this wonderful opera...a remarkably fine performance." -Grammophone "...I could use the space...continue...