This splendid performance of Sir William Walton's most celebrated cantata was given in the spectacular surroundings of Leeds Town Hall in 1999. The BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, and the Leeds Festival Chorus with Willard White, baritone, were conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. It was the Leeds Festival Chorus who, with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Malcolm Sargent, had premiered the work in 1931, and here they are again, a few generations later!