Classic FM Hall of Fame

205 Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Walton

Up 17. Best position since 2003. 1st of Walton's 2 entries.

It sounds, and is, a product of its time, a flag-waving morale-booster movie on the subject of the Supermarine Spitfire. The film came out in 1942, and the Spitfire Prelude and Fugue was premiered by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, at the city's Philharmonic Hall, in January 1943.

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