So, if someone finds a Muzyka engraved full score of the original Boris dating from 1975 or thereabouts, we may have a candidate for a nice addition to IMSLP. Yet his three string concertos are amongst the finest written this century.' The Viola Concerto. Of them Christopher Palmer has written, 'Walton knew little or nothing of strings as a performer. It also stands to reason that the folks in Moscow would be a bit miffed at being upstaged by OUP with a full score for such an important work by a native son. Walton wrote three concertos for string instruments: the Viola Concerto (1929), the Violin Concerto (1939) and the Cello Concerto (1957). At any rate, Muzyka's catalog was really quite enormous and they re-engraved things on apparent whim, so it's not impossible by any means. 1 of the new Mussorgsky complete works issued jointly by Muzyka (now Jurgenson again) and Schott. THE COMPOSER WILLIAM WALTON (1902-1983) Violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz, having heard about William Walton from violist William Primrose, took the composer out to lunch in 1936 and offered him £300 for a concerto commission.This was an incredible honor for Walton, the chance to collaborate with the most distinguished violin master of the day and he accepted readily. Or, the planned score became what is now known as Vol. Maybe they were planning to do it, but never actually did. I've not seen any online references to this edition, so the account of its publication (which was told to me by a musicologist friend who specialized in Mussorgsky) might be anecdotal only. Röder in Leipzig - shortly after Lloyd-Jones' score first appeared in 1974 or 75. On the other hand, I do not think the Walton Concerto is nearly as difficult to shape as the Delius Violin Concerto or the Delius Double Concerto because the line of the Walton Concerto is much more obvious. I believe he wrote very slowly, but whatever he wrote was very well thought out. Muzyka may have issued a full score of the original version - beaufifully engraved by the gnomes chained to the benches of the old music factory once owned by C.G. Walton was not scared of writing difficult music.
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