Paul Daniel / Christopher Purves -Belshazzar's Feast -Naxos CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. Simon Lindley "Belshazzar's Feast: Thus spake Isaiah"

02. Simon Lindley "Belshazzar's Feast: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem"

03. Christopher Purves "Belshazzar's Feast: Babylon was a great city"

04. Simon Lindley "Belshazzar's Feast: Praise"

05. Simon Lindley "Belshazzar's Feast: Thus in Babylon"

06. Christopher Purves "Belshazzar's Feast: And in that same hour"

07. Christopher Purves "Belshazzar's Feast: Then sing aloud to God"

08. Simon Lindley "Belshazzar's Feast: The trumpeters and pipers are silent"

09. Christopher Purves "Belshazzar's Feast: Then sing aloud to God"

10. English Northern Philharmonia "Crown Imperial"

11. Paul Daniel "Orb and Sceptre"

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Huddersfield Choral Society, Leeds P.o.

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Belshazzar's Feast by W. Walton, released 7 June 2004. This version of Belshazzar's Feast comes as a 1xCD. - HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY, LEEDS P.O.

It was the Huddersfield Choral Society who made the ground-breaking first recording of Belshazzar's Feast in 1943 at the height of the Second World War. Here that celebrated choir returns to Walton's masterpiece, joined by colleagues from Leeds and by the chamber choir Laudibus. Yet the impression on disc - with the singers set way behind the orchestra - is of a relatively small body. That is a disappointment in what in so many ways is a powerful reading; Paul Daniel is a vigorous and generally idiomatic Waltonian, as he has demonstrated in his earlier Walton recordings for Naxos.

Recorded at Town Hall, Leeds UK on the 30th of June and 1st of July 2001 (Tracks 1-9) and on the 7th of July and 25th of October 1996 (Tracks 10-11). Jewel case with outer card slip case. The order of the last two tracks is reversed on the slip case.

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8555869

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