Facade (Revived) [Full Score]

Colin Davis' lightly annotated conductor's score of the 'revived' version of William Walton's mini-masterpiece Façade with the conductor's initials in pencil to the upper cover. Large folio in green card wrappers of this new work created by the composer for his 75th birthday - using unpublished numbers from the original work. The title is written in black ink to the upper cover which is lightly stained. There are occasional annotations in Davis' hand for the second performance of this work (it was premiered a couple of months earlier by Charles Mackerras) at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in June 1977. Davis' annotations include pencil markings of time signatures and notes regarding performers, thus [Cathy] 'Berberian' at the head of the fifth movement and a pencil marking of crotchet = 50. Richard Baker is also referenced in Davis' annotations. £100 This score is from a large collection of scores that belonged to the conductor Sir Colin Davis, many annotated and used in performance, almost all from the post-war period and including at least two examples of scores from which he conducted the work's premier: Thea Musgrave's Clarinet Concerto (Davis was himself originally a clarinettist by training) and Malcolm Williamson's The Stone Wall which Davis premiered at the Last Night of the Proms in September 1971. Most of the scores are full size performance versions, several including this one very large indeed in order to accommodate the scoring of a post-Schoenberg orchestra. Davis achieved global recognition for his conducting with a particular enthusiasm for the music of Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett.