Piano music by Arnold Bax and Harriet Cohen. Private Passions is well named, not only because of the amorous bond between the album’s two composers, but also because so much of Bax’s music was inspired by his lover, muse, champion … Continue reading →
A short celebration of the music of Sir Arnold Bax Monday June 18th, Lunchtime Concert, RH, 12.10pm. Bax Clarinet Sonata, performed by Joe Wallace (clarinet) and Veronika Tabakova (piano). Bax Piano Solos: Winter Waters – Eungi Chung The Princess’s Rose … Continue reading →
Sunday, August 12, 2018 3:00pm Idyll St Peter & Paul Church Arnold Fantasy for Horn op 88 Bridge Piano quintet in D minor Bax Octet [horn, piano, string sextet] MacMillan For Max Elgar Piano quintet in A minor op 84 … Continue reading →
John Pickard is among today’s most accomplished and performed 21st Century British composers. He was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England in 1963 and at an early age decided to become a composer. He studied music and composition at the University … Continue reading →
With this disc, Lionel Handy completes his survey of Bax’s cello music including the much-maligned Cello Concerto that appeared on an earlier Lyrita disc. Here he performs Bax’s Cello Sonata from 1923 and couples it with the cello sonata of … Continue reading →
Dr Clifford Wilfred Gillam, the founder of the original Arnold Bax Society, died peacefully on 2 June, seven weeks short of his 90th birthday. I first came across his name when I read an article by him in the Bax … Continue reading →
Self-quotation may be a sign of age, idleness or both; but I can’t avoid referring back to my 2007 review of this performance of Bax’s Symphony No.2, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Eugene Goossens in 1956 (Dutton … Continue reading →
03 and 04 June 2018 at 1200 Fundación Juan March, Madrid Dubois, Terzettino Bax, Elegiac Trio for flute, viola and harp Jolivet, Petite Suite Brotons, Ad Infinitum Ravel, Sonatine in F sharp major (Arreglo de Carlos Salzedo) Trío Vasnier … Continue reading →
12 May 2018 at 19:30 Trinity Church, Harrow Bax, Tintagel Gershwin, Piano Concerto in F major Vaughan Williams, Symphony no. 3, “Pastoral” John Andrews, Conductor Nikola Avramovic, Piano Trinity Orchestra Harrow … Continue reading →
24 Mar 2018 at 19:30 West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge Bax, Tintagel Penderecki, Horn Concerto Vaughan Williams, Job – a masque for dancing City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra (CCSO) Robert Hodge, Conductor Ben Goldscheider, French horn … Continue reading →
