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 →
