Edith Sitwell

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British poet and critic, born 7 September 1887 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK, died 9 December 1964 in London, England, UK. Sister of Osbert Sitwell.

ALBUMS

Tony Randall (3), Arthur Fiedler, Sir William Walton, Edith Sitwell

Façade (Complete) (plus bonus works)

2022, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Comp, Quad, RM, Dutton Epoch,

Edith Sitwell, Sir William Walton

2020, 10", Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Moochin' About, [PIAS] Recordings,

Walton*, Bax*, Bliss* - Edith Sitwell, Peter Pears, Anthony Collins (2), Adrian Boult*, Malcolm Sargent*, Arthur Bliss

Walton: Façade - An Entertainment / Siesta / Scapino / Portsmouth Point / Orb and Sceptre / Bax: Coronation March, 1953 / Bliss: Welcome the Queen

2010, CD, Album, Comp, Decca,

The Spoken Word

2008, CD, Album, Comp, British Library

Dame Edith Sitwell* – William Walton* / Lord Berners

Follies & Façades

2008, CD, Comp, Él

Kit & The Widow*, Southbank Sinfonia Ensemble*, David Corkhill, Edith Sitwell, William Walton*

2007, CD, Album, The Classical Recording Company

Sir William Walton, Dame Edith Sitwell*, James Stuart (6), Kent State University Sinfonia, Louis Lane

Façade An Entertainment

2004, CD, Album, Operetta Archives

Sir William Walton, Edith Sitwell, Lynn Redgrave, The Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center, David Shifrin

Facade, Books I & II

1997, CD, Album, Arabesque Recordings

William Walton* / Malcolm Arnold / Dame Edith Sitwell* / Peter Pears / Anthony Collins (2) / Sir Adrian Boult

Romantic/Modern

William Walton* / Edith Sitwell

1989, CD, Album, Mono, RE, RM, ASV Digital

Sir William Walton With Dame Edith Sitwell* / Paul Doktor / Zino Francescatti / Edward Downes / Andre Kostelanetz* / Eugene Ormandy / George Szell

Sir William Walton 1902-1983

1983, 4xLP, Mono + Box, Comp, CBS, CBS Masterworks

William Walton*, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Edith Sitwell

1982, LP, Album, Society For Chamber Music Rochester,

Walton* / Finzi* / Butterworth*, Edith Sitwell, Constant Lambert, Sir William Walton / Joan Cross / Roy Henderson

Façade (excerpts) / Dies Natalis / A Shropshire Lad

1979, LP, Comp, Mono, Decca, Eclipse (2)

Randall* - Fiedler* - William Walton* - Edith Sitwell - Columbia Chamber Ensemble

Facade (Complete)

Noël Coward, Edith Sitwell / Saint-Saëns* / Walton*

Carnival of the Animals — Facade

1973, LP, Comp, Mono, Odyssey

William Walton* - Fenella Fielding, Michael Flanders, Members Of The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields*, Neville Marriner*, Edith Sitwell

Façade - An Entertainment

Dylan Thomas And Edith Sitwell

Dylan Thomas And Edith Sitwell Read And Discuss Her Poetry

1971, LP, Caedmon Records

John Gielgud / Irene Worth / Edith Sitwell

A Program Of Poems By Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell And Cecil Beaton With John Freeman

1963, LP, Mono, Piccadilly

Sir William Walton / Dame Edith Sitwell* / Vera Zorina / Jacques Ibert / The Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy

Façade / Divertissement

Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis*

Contemporary English Literature Volume 1: Poetry, Read By The Poets

1962, LP, Album, Folkways Records,

Edith Sitwell And C. Day Lewis*

Poets Reading No. 1

1959, 7", EP, Tri, Jupiter Recordings,

Dame Edith Sitwell* – William Walton* / Paul Bowles

Facade / Music For A Farce

Reading From Her Poetry

Edith Sitwell Reading Her Poems

Sir William Walton, Edith Sitwell, Peter Pears, Anthony Collins

Façade - An Entertainment

Edith Sitwell, William Walton*

Sir William Walton And Edith Sitwell, Constant Lambert

1930, 2xShellac, 12", Decca, Decca,

Facade Poems by Dame Edith Sitwell Music by William Walton

LP, Special Service Records

Edith Sitwell And Constant Lambert

Shellac, 12", Decca, Decca,

Noël Coward, Edith Sitwell / Saint-Saëns* / Walton*

Carnival of the Animals — Facade

LP, Mono, RE, CBS

William Walton* - Sir Malcolm Sargent, Laurence Olivier, Peter Pears, Edith Sitwell

Facade / Henry V / Orbe And Sceptre

CD, Comp, Mono, Alto,

Constant Lambert / Edith Sitwell & Constant Lambert

Shellac, 12", Decca

APPEARANCES +

2024, 2xCD, Album, Oktav Records,

Baroque/Contemporary/Romantic/Medieval

William Walton*, Roderick Williams (3), Tamsin Dalley, Kevin Whately, Orchestra Of The Swan, Bruce O'Neil

A Centenary Celebration

2022, CD, Album, Somm,

Ask Of Me What The Birds Sang

2022, CD, Navona Records

Ina Boyle: Songs

2021, CD, Delphian,

English Song Collection

2021, 25xCD, RE + Box, Comp, Naxos,

Modern/Romantic/Contemporary

Anthony Collins

Anthony Collins – Complete Decca Recordings

2021, 14xCD, Comp, Mono + Box, Eloquence

Jodie Devos, Nicolas Krüger

And Love Said...

Voices Of Earth And Air Vol III: Works For Chorus

2020, CD, Album, Navona Records,

Contemporary/Choral

Christoph Prégardien, Olivier Darbellay, Michael Gees, Britten* / Lachner* / Kreutzer* / Kossmaly* / Pierson* / Schubert*

A Matter Of Heart: Trios For Tenor, Horn, And Piano

2017, CD, Album, Challenge Classics,

Modern/Classical/Romantic

Carole Boyd, Zeb Soanes, John Wilson

2017, CD, Album, Orchid Classics

Decca Sound: The Mono Years 1944 – 1956

2015, 53xCD, Album, Mono, RM + Box, Comp, Ltd, Decca,

Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Modern/Contemporary/Impressionist/Neo-Romantic/Vocal/Choral

Simon Rattle*, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

2015, 2xCD, Album, Comp + CD, Album, Comp + CD, Album, C, Warner Classics,

Classical/Romantic/Modern/Contemporary/Oratorio/Choral

The Experience Machine

2015, 13xFile, MP3, 192, Not On Label (391 Self-released),

Synth-pop/Post-Punk

The Battle Of Bosworth Terrace

2014, LP, Siltbreeze,

The Proteus Ensemble, Stephen Shellard

Serenity ♦ Courage ♦ Wisdom (A Sequence Of Music And Readings For Remembrance)

2014, CD, Album, Regent Records

2013, CD, Album, Wigmore Hall Live,

Elgar* • Britten* • Delius* • Walton* • Vaughan Williams* • Davies* • Arnell* • Berners*

The British Music Collection

2013, 12xCD, Mono + Box, Comp, Sony Classical, Sony Music

Between The Candle And The Star

Hardcore/Gabber/Hard Techno

Voices Of Yesteryear 2

2012, CD, Comp, Global Journey

Britten* · Byrd* · Delius* · Elgar* · Parry* · Purcell* · Stanford* · Vaughan Williams* · Walton* - Sir Thomas Allen* · Dame Janet Baker* · Ian Bostridge · Alfred Deller · Emma Kirkby · Anthony Rolfe Johnson · Robert Tear

The Very Best Of English Song

2012, Box, Album, Comp + 5xCD, Comp, Mono, RM, EMI Classics, EMI Classics,

Renaissance/Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Modern

Britten* - Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang, Alan Cumming, Jennifer Montone, Sivan Magen

Still Falls The Rain

2012, CD, Album, Avie Records

Mutsumi Hatano, Ichiro Nodaïra

2007, SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Avex-classics,

A Child Of Our Time, Choral Music, Boyhood's End, Songs, Etc.

2005, 4xCD, Comp, Decca,

Modern/Choral/Folk

British Composers*

The Very Best Of English Song

2003, 2xCD, Comp, Mono, EMI Classics,

Shining Brother Shining Sister

Britten* - Ian Bostridge, David Daniels (3), Christopher Maltman, Timothy Brown (2), Aline Brewer, Julius Drake

2002, CD, Album, Virgin Classics,

Modern/Romantic

Michael Tippett*

A Child Of Our Time / Etc

2002, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Decca,

Modern/Choral/Folk

Benjamin Britten / Sir William Walton

Benjamin Britten / William Walton

2001, CD, Album, Comp, Mono, Decca,

William Walton*, Eleanor Bron, Richard Stilgoe, The Nash Ensemble, David Lloyd-Jones

Façade: The Complete Extant Numbers

2000, CD, Hyperion,

Berit Mæland, Benedicte Palko

2000, CD, Album, Shell (3)

Britten* · Delius* · Falla* · Mahler* · Mozart* · Schubert* · Tchaikovsky* · Wolf*

Britten The Collection

2000, 6xCD, Mono, Ltd + Box, Comp, BBC, BBC Music,

Ned Rorem - Rosalind Rees

Hearing (32 Songs Of Ned Rorem)

1993, CD, Comp, RE, Premier Recordings

William Walton* - Melologos Ensemble, Silveer Van Den Broeck, Pamela Hunter

Façade - After A Set Of 40 Poems By Edith Sitwell

Walton* – Utah Symphony Orchestra / Maurice Abravanel* • Janet Bookspan / David Epstein

Belshazzar's Feast • Façade

Sir Edward Elgar

Symphony No. 1 / Pomp and Circumstance Marches No. 1 & No. 2

1992, CD, Telarc,

Yvonne Kenny, Malcolm Martineau

William Walton & Constant Lambert: Complete Songs

1992, CD, Album, Etcetera (3),

House/Techno/Synth-pop

Shakespears Sister*

Hormonally Yours

Shakespears Sister*

New Wave/Pop Rock

Felicity Lott, Graham Johnson

Favourite English Songs

1990, CD, Chandos,

Romantic/Modern/Art Song

Walton*, Susana Walton, Richard Baker (7), Richard Hickox, Members Of The City Of London Sinfonia*

Facade 1 & 2 (complete)

1990, CD, Album, Chandos

Haydn* - The Aeolian String Quartet*

The String Quartets

1990, Box Set, 22x CD,

Richard Beilharz, Claude-Erik Nandrup / Wolf*, Mahler*, Pfitzner*, Schönberg*, Chabrier*, Poulenc*, Satie*, Ravel*, Auric*, Wiener*, Warlock*, Walton*, Ives*, Copland*, Rorem*

Humor Im Lied (L' Humour Dans La Mélodie / Humorous Songs)

1988, CD, Album, RBM Records, RBM Records, RBM Records,

Richard Beilharz, Claude-Erik Nandrup / Wolf*, Mahler*, Pfitzner*, Schönberg*, Chabrier*, Poulenc*, Satie*, Ravel*, Auric*, Wiener*, Warlock*, Walton*, Ives*, Copland*, Rorem*

Humor Im Lied (L' Humour Dans La Mélodie / Humorous Songs)

1988, LP, RBM Records,

Benjamin Britten

The Heart Of The Matter • Songs For Tenor And Piano

Rosalind Rees Sings Ned Rorem

With The Composer At The Piano

1984, LP, Gregg Smith Singers Productions

Portrait Of Kiri Te Kanawa

1983, Vinyl Carrollton Pressing,

Opera/Classical/Romantic/Modern

Kiri Te Kanawa - Schubert* • Schumann* • Wolf* • Fauré* • Duparc* • Walton* - Richard Amner

Canticle I / Canticle II / Canticle III

1976, LP, Album, His Master's Voice, His Master's Voice, His Master's Voice

Edith Borroff, Marjory Irvin, Various

Records To Accompany Music In Perspective

1976, 6xLP, Mono + Box, Comp, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.,

Fenella Fielding And Michael Flanders With Members Of The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Conducted By Neville Marriner*

Walton: Façade – An Entertainment

Cleo Laine And Annie Ross With John Dankworth

Sir William Walton's Façade, An Entertainment With Poems By Dame Edith Sitwell

Ashcroft*, Scofield*, Walton*

Walton* / Lecocq*, Royal Opera House Orchestra*, Anatole Fistoulari

Façade - Suites / Lecocq: Mam'zelle Angot

Sir William Walton

Façade - An Entertainment

The Apollo Society, George Rylands, Peter Orr, David King (2), Geoffrey Shaw, Ciobhan O'Dalaigh

World Wars • 1914 • 1939

1970, 2xLP + Box, Argo (2), Argo (2), Argo (2),

Tippett* - L.S.O.*, Colin Davis*

Second Symphony

The Unbelievable

Poetry And Song 1

1967, LP, Mono, Argo (2),

Poetry And Song 2

1967, LP, Argo (2),

A Personal Choice

Wilfred Brown, Margaret McNamee

A Recital Of Songs By English Composers

1962, LP, Album, Jupiter Recordings,

Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling

Anthology Of 20th Century English Poetry (Part 1)

1961, LP, Folkways Records,

Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, John Hahessy, Barry Tuckwell

An Anthology Of Christian Poetry And Prose

The Jupiter Anthology Of 20th Century English Poetry Part 1

1959, LP, Jupiter Recordings,

Richard Burton (2), Dylan Thomas

Richard Burton Reads 15 Poems By Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas / Various

Homage To Dylan Thomas

The Columbia Literary Series

1953, 12x Vinyl Box Set,

Spoken Word/Poetry

Into The Sixties Towards A Cosmic Music (Pre-Echoes Of A Momentous Decade)

2024, 3xCD, Album, Comp, Él, Cherry Red,

The Dawn Of Psychedelia

2013, 2xCD, Cherry Red

The Spoken Word - British Poets

2010, 3xCD, Comp, British Library

The Spoken Word: Poets

2003, CD, Comp, British Library

The Cademon Poetry Collection

2000, 3xCD, Comp, Caedmon

Great Literary Figures

1999, CD, Comp, Legends Of The 20th Century

Sir William Walton, Chamber Orchestra*, The Philadelphia Orchestra

Facade / Belshazzar's Feast

1994, CD, Comp, RM, Sony Classical

Julie Harris (3), Cyril Ritchard, David Wayne

A Gathering Of Great Poetry For Children, Volume Two

1964, LP, Caedmon Records, Inc.

The Caedmon Treasury Of Modern Poets - Reading Their Own Poetry

2xLP, Gre, Caedmon Records

The Cademon Poetry Collection

3xCD, Comp, Caedmon,

The Caedmon Treasury Of Modern Poets - Reading Their Own Poetry

Spoken Word/Poetry

The Caedmon Treasury Of Modern Poets Reading Their Own Poetry - No. 2