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A Disc of Songs for Baritone by Bax and other British Composers – reviewed by Richard R. Adams.

The Sir Arnold Bax Website Posted on September 28, 2013 by Bax AdminMay 5, 2020

Sea Fever – Songs by Bax, Ireland, Dyson, Boughton, Bainton and Parry  Roderick Williams, Baritone BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates.  Dutton Epoch CDLX 7199   Recorded in The Colosseum Town Hall, Watford, 5-6 June 2007 Review by Richard R. Adams … Continue reading →

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Lyrita accounts of Bax’s Second and Fifth Symphonies reviewed by Graham Parlett

The Sir Arnold Bax Website Posted on September 28, 2013 by Bax AdminApril 27, 2020

Symphony No.2 Symphony No.5   London Philharmonic Orchestra, Myer Fredman (No.2), Raymond Leppard (No.5) SRCD 233 [78:28] Recorded at Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, October 1970 (No.2) and February 1971 (No.5) Review by GRAHAM PARLETT   We have Ken Russell to … Continue reading →

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Vernon Handley’s long-awaited second volume of Bax Tone Poems reviewed by Graham Parlett

The Sir Arnold Bax Website Posted on September 28, 2013 by Bax AdminApril 27, 2020

Northern Ballad No.1, Northern Ballad No.2, Prelude for a Solemn Occasion, Into the Twilight, The Happy Forest, Red Autumn, Nympholept. BBC Philharmonic, Vernon Handley. CHAN 10446 [76:44]  Recorded in Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 20 and 21 December 2006 … Continue reading →

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Muir Mathieson Biography, “A Life in Film Music” – Reviewed by Graham Parlett

The Sir Arnold Bax Website Posted on September 28, 2013 by Bax AdminApril 27, 2020

MUIR MATHIESON A Life in Film Music S.J. HETHERINGTON AND MARK BROWNRIGG Foreword by Miguel Mera Scottish Cultural Press, 2006 (£14.99) ISBN-10: 1-898218-11-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-898218-11-1 288 pp.         Review by Graham Parlett Nobody with an interest in … Continue reading →

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John Bradbury records English Clarinet Music for Naxos – Reviewed by Graham Parlett

The Sir Arnold Bax Website Posted on September 28, 2013 by Bax AdminApril 27, 2020

THE ENGLISH CLARINET Bax: Clarinet Sonata; German: Romance No.1; Roxburgh: Wordsworth Miniatures; Finzi: Five Bagatelles; Hurlstone: Four Characteristic Pieces; Patterson: Soliloquy; W. Lloyd Webber: On Frensham Pond and Air and Variations; Bliss: Pastoral.  John Bradbury (clarinet), James Cryer (piano).  Naxos … Continue reading →

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Florence Hooton’s Classic Lyrita Accounts of Bax’s Chamber Music for Cello – Reviewed by Graham Parlett

The Sir Arnold Bax Website Posted on September 28, 2013 by Bax AdminApril 27, 2020

Bax: Folk-Tale, Sonata, Sonatina, Legend-Sonata. Jacob: Divertimento, Elegy.  Florence Hooton (cello), Wilfrid Parry (piano).  Lyrita two-disc set REAM.2104 [59:95; 45:44]  Recorded in The Music Room at Richard Itter’s home: July and September 1958 (Bax); July and November 1958 (Jacob)   … Continue reading →

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Ensemble Avalon Records Bax’s Piano Trio – Review by Richard R. Adams

The Sir Arnold Bax Website Posted on September 28, 2013 by Bax AdminApril 27, 2020

THE SIR ARNOLD BAX WEB SITE Bax: Piano Trio in B Flat Major. Bernstein: Piano Trio Op. 2. Beethoven: Piano trio in D Major Op. 70 No. 1, Ghost  Ioana Petcu-Colan,  (violin), Michael McHale (piano), Gerald Peregrine (cello).  Available from: … Continue reading →

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Historic Lyrita recordings of Bax’s piano music by Iris Loveridge – Review by Richard R. Adams

The Sir Arnold Bax Website Posted on September 28, 2013 by Bax AdminApril 27, 2020

THE SIR ARNOLD BAX WEB SITE Bax: The Piano Music Iris Loveridge, Piano LYRITA REAM.3113 (3 CDs) Recorded between 1959 and 1963 in The Music Room, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, UK Review by Richard R. Adams What is remarkable about these pioneering … Continue reading →

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New biography on Harriet Cohen by Helen Fry – Review by Richard R. Adams

The Sir Arnold Bax Website Posted on September 28, 2013 by Bax AdminApril 27, 2020

THE SIR ARNOLD BAX WEB SITE Music and Men: The Life and Loves of Harriet Cohen By Helen Fry The History Press LTD – 2008 Review by Richard R. Adams (with additional notes by Graham Parlett) If Harriet Cohen is … Continue reading →

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Ashley Wass’s stunning new recording of Bax’s ‘Symphonic Variations’ for Naxos – Reviewed by Christopher Webber

The Sir Arnold Bax Website Posted on September 28, 2013 by Bax AdminApril 27, 2020

THE SIR ARNOLD BAX WEB SITE  Ashley Wass (piano) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra James Judd (conductor) Symphonic Variations (1916–18) Concertante for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra (1949) Naxos 8.570774 (68:11) [rec. Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, 21-22 May 2008]   Of Bax’s … Continue reading →

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