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Subject: Re: Inquiry about composer Bax - (nf)
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The best source of Arnold Bax's works I know of is from:
	Musical Heritage Society
	1710 Highway 35
	Ocean, NJ 07712
I do not know if the following are still in their catalog.  Most are
from Lyrita in England and recorded in 1971-1972.
  MHS1586 Symp. No. 1, London Phil. Orch., Myer Fredman
  MHS1632 Symp. No. 2, London Phil. Orch., Myer Fredman
  MHS1652 Symp. No. 5, London Phil. Orch., Raymond Leppard
  MHS1198 Symp. No. 6, New Phil. Orch., Norman Del Mar
  MHS3618 Symp. No. 7, London Phil. Orhc., Raymond Leppard
  MHS1769 Tintagel*, Northern Ballad No. 1, The Garden of Fand*,
	  Meditteranean, London Phil. Orch., Sir Adrian Boult
  MHS1229 November Woods* with Holst: A Fugal Overture and Moeran:
	  Sinfonietta, London Phil. Orch., Sir Adrian Boult
* Symphonic Poem

For whatever reason, MHS never released Symphonies No. 3 and 4.  You
will also find Tintagel on:
  ANGEL S36415 English Tone Poems (includes Ireland: A London Overture,
	       Delius: The Walk to the Paradise Garden, Prelude to Irmelin,
	       and A Song of Summer), London Symp. Orch., Sir John
	       Barbirolli

For a brief description of Bax, try "An Illustrated Guide to Composers
of Classical Music" by Peter Gammond (ISBN 0-668-05315-1), ARCO
Publishing Co.  To quote:
  "..another facet of his abundant invention is to be seen in the
luxuriant texture and sensuous colouring of his music.  This
complexity of decoration has in fact sometimes proved a
stumbling-block to his wider appreciation, though beneath the rich
chromatic arabesques his thinking is fundamentally diatonic:
similarly, his music often appears to be impressionistically
rhapsodic, but its form is usually quite clear."

Gil Hansen