Belshazzar's Feast: for Baritone Solo, Mixed choir, and Orchestra: The Text Selected and Arranged from the Bible

by Sir William Walton (Composer), George Michael Sinclair Kennedy

An oratorio for baritone soloist, mixed chorus, and orchestra, using text from the Bible selected by Osbert Sitwell
Orchestral material is available on hire

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1931

About the author

Sir William Turner Walton OM (29 March 1902 – 8 March 1983) was an English composer.

During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto, the First Symphony, and the British coronation marches Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre.

Reviews

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the most emtionally charged work that I have ever heard. I doubt that any other piece of music could be more enlivening or glorious than this one.