Cello Concertos by Arnold Bax and Stanley Bate Lionel Handy, cello Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates, conductor Lyrita SRCD.351 Review by Richard R. Adams First a confession: I’ve always found Bax’s Cello Concerto to be a tough nut to … Continue reading →
Thursday 5 May, 7.30pm City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Symphony Hall, Birmingham Bax The Garden of Fand Elgar Sea Pictures Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 John Wilson – Conductor Alice Coote – Mezzo soprano
Continue reading →13 April 2016 / 19:30 BBC Symphony Orchestra Barbican Hall Bax The Garden of Fand Brett Dean Viola concerto Elgar Symphony No 1 Sakari Oramo conductor Brett Dean viola
Continue reading →13 April 2016 1pm Seminar McMordie Hall Bax’s In Memoriam: Memory, Martyrdom and Modalities of Irishness Aidan Thomson, Queen’s University Belfast
Continue reading →12 April 2016 1.10pm Concert Sonic Lab Arnold Bax and 1916: A Concert of Chamber Music for Flute, Viola and Harp Jennifer Sturgeon (fute), Ruth Bebb (viola), Tanya Houghton (harp)
Continue reading →RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra National Concert Hall, Dublin Friday 19 February 2016, 8 pm BAX In memoriam (1916) [15′] LUTOSLAWSKI Cello Concerto [24′] BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E flat, ‘Eroica’ [50′] Conductor: Duncan Ward Narek Hakhnazaryan cello
Continue reading →Harry White, Professor of Music at University College Dublin and a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, has written an article for the Independent.IE on Sir Arnold Bax’s meeting with Patrick Pearse, who was executed 100 years ago … Continue reading →
The pianist Philip Mead gave the world-premiere performance of Bax’s Nympholept in its original arrangement for piano solo at a concert that took place in the Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University, at 1:10pm on Friday, 6th November 2015. The recital, … Continue reading →
Fand Music Press has published Bax’s Scherzo for Piano and Dance in the Sun, the latter in an arrangement by John Mitchell. Dance in the Sun is the second of Four Orchestral Pieces that Bax wrote in 1912–13 and Mitchell’s … Continue reading →
