Northern Ballad No.1, Northern Ballad No.2, Prelude for a Solemn Occasion, Into the Twilight, The Happy Forest, Red Autumn, Nympholept. BBC Philharmonic, Vernon Handley. CHAN 10446 [76:44] Recorded in Studio 7, New Broadcasting House, Manchester, 20 and 21 December 2006 … Continue reading →
MUIR MATHIESON A Life in Film Music S.J. HETHERINGTON AND MARK BROWNRIGG Foreword by Miguel Mera Scottish Cultural Press, 2006 (£14.99) ISBN-10: 1-898218-11-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-898218-11-1 288 pp. Review by Graham Parlett Nobody with an interest in … Continue reading →
THE ENGLISH CLARINET Bax: Clarinet Sonata; German: Romance No.1; Roxburgh: Wordsworth Miniatures; Finzi: Five Bagatelles; Hurlstone: Four Characteristic Pieces; Patterson: Soliloquy; W. Lloyd Webber: On Frensham Pond and Air and Variations; Bliss: Pastoral. John Bradbury (clarinet), James Cryer (piano). Naxos … Continue reading →
Bax: Folk-Tale, Sonata, Sonatina, Legend-Sonata. Jacob: Divertimento, Elegy. Florence Hooton (cello), Wilfrid Parry (piano). Lyrita two-disc set REAM.2104 [59:95; 45:44] Recorded in The Music Room at Richard Itter’s home: July and September 1958 (Bax); July and November 1958 (Jacob) … Continue reading →
THE SIR ARNOLD BAX WEB SITE Bax: Piano Trio in B Flat Major. Bernstein: Piano Trio Op. 2. Beethoven: Piano trio in D Major Op. 70 No. 1, Ghost Ioana Petcu-Colan, (violin), Michael McHale (piano), Gerald Peregrine (cello). Available from: … Continue reading →
THE SIR ARNOLD BAX WEB SITE Bax: The Piano Music Iris Loveridge, Piano LYRITA REAM.3113 (3 CDs) Recorded between 1959 and 1963 in The Music Room, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, UK Review by Richard R. Adams What is remarkable about these pioneering … Continue reading →
THE SIR ARNOLD BAX WEB SITE Music and Men: The Life and Loves of Harriet Cohen By Helen Fry The History Press LTD – 2008 Review by Richard R. Adams (with additional notes by Graham Parlett) If Harriet Cohen is … Continue reading →
THE SIR ARNOLD BAX WEB SITE Ashley Wass (piano) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra James Judd (conductor) Symphonic Variations (1916–18) Concertante for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra (1949) Naxos 8.570774 (68:11) [rec. Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, 21-22 May 2008] Of Bax’s … Continue reading →
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Martin Yates (conductor) Bax: Variations on the name GABRIEL FAURE Bax: Symphonic Serenade for string Orchestra Works for Strings by Dodgson, Arnell and Norman Del Mar Dutton Epoch CDLX 7244 review by Richard R. Adams There remains … Continue reading →
Mark Bebbington (piano) Orchestra of the Swan David Curtis (conductor) Bax: Piano Concertino Ireland: Piano Concerto and Piano Legend SOMMCD 242 review by Richard R. Adams Bax managed to summon all his creative powers one last time when he wrote … Continue reading →
