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Having admirably survived Bax’s discursive piano sonatas, Ashley Wass devotes all of his third volume of this composer’s piano works to relatively smaller-scaled fare. Actually,
Given Vernon Handley’s passionate, even eccentric (if amiably so) advocacy of the music of Arnold Bax, you might expect these performances to be excellent despite
In my review of the first installment in Naxos’ Arnold Bax piano music cycle (type Q8190 in Search Reviews), I described the composer’s first two
Arnold Bax is better known for his symphonies and symphonic poems than for his surprisingly large solo piano output. The full bodied, grandiose textures he
Vernon Handley’s credentials in 20th century British music are second to none, and it goes without saying that this complete Bax cycle offers idiomatic and
Bringing Naxos’ Bax symphony cycle to a triumphant conclusion, David Lloyd-Jones leads a terrific performance of the oft-maligned Seventh Symphony, a work of great lyric
Arnold Bax completed the first version of his Violin Sonata No. 1 in 1915, well in advance of his symphonies. Yet the sonata’s broad dimensions
This integral recording of Arnold Bax’s works for viola and piano is a splendid achievement. There’s just one minor concern: Such flawlessly sheened tone and
Ah, such pleasing, dreamy music! You can almost see fluffy, feathery clouds drifting across a bright blue sky looking down on a lily-covered pasture. Picturesque?
Naxos’ ongoing Bax symphony cycle goes from strength to strength with the release of this sumptuous performance of the darkly militant Fifth Symphony. The composer
