Given the power of Bax’s symphonies and tone poems, it is easy sometimes to forget the equal mastery of his major piano and chamber works, let alone the best of his countless productions for the human voice. Hearing this excellent … Continue reading →
Friday May 12, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. All Hallow’s by the Tower Tower Hill, London Bax: Legend for viola and piano Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet excerpts (arr. viola and piano) Rebecca Clarke: Sonata Mark Gibbs, viola Christopher Atkinson, piano … Continue reading →
Simon Brackenborough is the founder and editor of Corymbus. He is a music graduate who divides his time between Hampshire and London, and tweets at @sbrackenborough. He is an admirer of Bax’s musicand he has just published a fascinating essay … Continue reading →
Naxos is releasing in May 2017 a disc featuring The Carice Singers led by their founder George Parris in a program of choral music by Delius and Bax. The disc will include Bax’s Five Greek Songs, This Worldes Joie and … Continue reading →
George Parris is a singer, conductor and scholar of early-twentieth-century Anglo-Irish music. He was awarded the Elgar Society’s Certificate of Merit for initiating an Elgar Festival as his school, St Edward’s Oxford. In the same year, he founded The Carice … Continue reading →
31st March 2017 at 19:30. Pre-Concert talk begins at 18.30. All seats unreserved. The Baptist Church, High Street, Rickmansworth, WD3 1EH. Maggini Quartet. Haydn: String quartet in E flat Op. 20 No.1 Bax: String quartet No. 1 in G (1918) … Continue reading →
25 March 2017 at 19:30. St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London. Whitehall Orchestra, Michael Nebe (conductor), Adam Hill (violin). Bax: Tintagel Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op.14 … Continue reading →
16 December 2017 at 19:30 Kings Place: Hall One, London Oliver Coates with Tenebrae: Le temps de Noël Poulenc, Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine Debussy, 3 Chansons de Charles d’Orleans Fauré, Cello Sonata … Continue reading →
11 June 2017 at 11:00 Kultur Casino, Bern Marsalis, Meelaan, for bassoon and string quartet Gershwin, Lullaby, for string quartet Menotti, Cantilena and Scherzo for harp and string quartet Bax, Threnody and Scherzo, for bassoon, harp and string sextet Anouk … Continue reading →
18 May 2017 at 19:30 and 19:30 All Saints Church, West Dulwich, London Concordia Chamber Choir Britten, Te deum in C Major Britten, Jubilate Deo in C Britten, Hymn of St Columba Bax, This worldes joie Howells, Take him, earth, … Continue reading →
