Although the relationship between William Walton and the Cinema didn't went up to something tangential, committed as he was in a personal symphonic world, it is not hard to find this relation in many of his works, major or minor, as part of this film environment. This is the case of the Two Pieces for Violin and Piano, based on medieval melodies which Walton used on his music for Henry V (1944), the film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy; it is also the case, tangentially, of the charming Five Bagatelles for Guitar, which Walton dedicates to his colleague Malcolm Arnold, the famous composer of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). Joining them is the "experimental" Toccata for Violin and Piano, first performed in 1925 with an harmonic style which had no continuity on the british composer work, the simple Duets for Children for Four-Hand-Piano, and the earlier Two Songs for Tenor and Piano. Special mention for the stupendous song minicycle Anon in Love, of elizabethan taste, which gives name to the record. Illuminated comments, as usual, of the late Christopher Palmer.

Toccata for Violin and Piano (1922-23) - 14:18
Duets for Children for Piano (1940) - 13:20
Façade: Valse for Piano (1926) - 4:25
Two Pieces for Violin and Piano (1949-50) - 5:42
Two Songs for Tenor and Piano (1918-20) - 3:07
Five Bagatelles for Guitar (1970-71) - 14:16
Anon in Love for Tenor and Guitar (1960) - 10:55
Tenor: John Mark Ainsley - Violin: Kenneth Sillito - Guitar: Carlos Bonell - Piano: Hamish Milne and Gretel Dowdeswell
CHANDOS - CHAN9292 / 67'

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