British cellist Steven Isserlis seeks joy and beauty in everything he plays. His choice of William Walton’s Cello Concerto for this week’s National Symphony Orchestra concerts has all the elements ...

At 51, Sir William Walton stands second in England’s current trinity of famous composers. Less prolific than either 80-year-old Ralph Vaughan Williams or 39-year-old Benjamin Britten, he has turned ...

When England’s famed Composer William Walton sat down five years ago to write his first opera, he determined to make it a “singers’ opera.” By that he meant that he would write as melodiously as ...

The sound of a busy port at the turn of the 19th century would probably have been deafening — lots of people, all bustling and shouting, trying to get where they need to go. A painting of that scene ...

The third concert of the Aiken Symphony’s masterworks season is devoted to the music of a single country, the United Kingdom. Indeed, all four works to be performed on Feb. 3 are meant to conjure up ...