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Article: Classical: CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY BAND QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL LONDON
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2002
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WITHOUT HIS early training as a chorister at Christ Church,
Oxford, Walton might never have been a composer at all, so Friday's
concert there was hugely appropriate, as a tribute from the place
that made him. A slightly off-beat selection of music was tied
together by lively readings from Walton's boyhood letters, delivered
in impeccable Lancs by young Joshua Hustwick, reminding us that while
worrying about football matches and school jam, the 14-year-old
composer was already producing astonishing pieces such as A Litany.
Given by the choir in three different versions - a touch uncertain
in the first, for trebles and altos, but plangent and poignant in the
more familiar full-choir ...