Façade: Second Suite for Orchestra

General Information – Instrumentation – Manuscript – Publication – Arrangements – Recordings

General Information:

Composition:
1938. Music arranged from Façade.

First Performance:
30 March 1938. Carnegie Hall, New York. New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli conductor. [The 'Tango-Pasodoblé' from the First Suite was played instead of 'Old Sir Faulk', for reasons unknown.]

Duration:
About 10 minutes

Movements:

Craggs Catalogue Number:
C12e

Instrumentation:

2 flutes (second doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, cor anglais (or alto saxophone, or, preferably, both), 2 clarinets in B-flat (both doubling clarinets in A), 2 bassoons – 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, trombone – 1 or 2 percussion (side drum, cymbals, castanets, tambourine, triangle, wood block, Chinese blocks) – strings

Manuscript:

Frederick R. Koch Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Manuscript FRKF 638b. Autograph full score. Only 'Country Dance' and 'Noche espagnola' are in Walton's hand. The other movements are in an unknown copyist's hand. 63 pages.

Publication:

Oxford University Press. Study score, 1938 and 1968, 019 3681536. Score and parts are available on hire.
            [Purchase online from SheetMusicPlus.com: Study score]

Arrangements:

Arranged for piano duet, by Constant Lambert.
Publication: Oxford University Press. Score, 1939, discontinued.

Recordings:

* Only 'Popular Song' and 'Old Sir Faulk' were released.

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