Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!hansen From: hansen@parsec.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Inquiry about composer Bax - (nf) Message-ID: <6158@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 03:42:32 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6158 Posted: Tue Mar 13 03:42:32 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Mar-84 01:00:58 EST Lines: 40 #R:emory:-129600:parsec:39000003:000:1692 parsec!hansen Mar 12 13:25:00 1984 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