When I was in graduate school studying music, my professors used to tell stories of Arnold Bax's legendary sight reading skills. This is certainly one of my favorites by this underrated composer.
For many years Ralph Vaughan Williams was my favourite British composer, then I heard Sir Arnold Bax... It's all wonderful stuff, a treat for your ears. I love The Garden of Fand too. Thank you for this upload.
If you haven't heard Nympholept, it's another great one from the same period, and, like Spring Fire, another one that was first performed years after Bax's death.
@@Jerry10062 Yes, when Mark Elder guest conducted. I have that performance. I respect Handley greatly and have had his recording for many years, as well as Elder's recording with the Halle, but the Chicago orchestra is in a different class, and I am so sorry Bax was not able to hear his score played by them. The British orchestras that tried it out back when it was written just couldn't negotiate the notes.
Spring Fire is published in the UK by Faber Music via Warner Chappel - the score/parts are currently only available for hire, but considering that Bax's music has just come out of copyright I would imagine that a lot of Bax's music will soon become more readily available
When I was in graduate school studying music, my professors used to tell stories of Arnold Bax's legendary sight reading skills. This is certainly one of my favorites by this underrated composer.
Unsung Masterworks, I miss you. :(
Bax is such a fascinating composer, his language his so unique but dramatically romantic and chromatic. I love this work and his first symphony
Good observation --- Bax was set apart like Sibelius .
@@paulbeard4218 Bax was his brother in music, according to Sibelius:)
A master work .
For many years Ralph Vaughan Williams was my favourite British composer, then I heard Sir Arnold Bax... It's all wonderful stuff, a treat for your ears. I love The Garden of Fand too. Thank you for this upload.
If you haven't heard it yet, don't miss Nympholept -- another score that was never performed in Bax's lifetime.
Compact version of An Alpine Symphony? I love this! Thanks for the delightful upload, as always.
Technically Eine Alpensinfonie is an extended version of Spring Fire
@@ImWalde Ah yes, Eine Alpensinfonie was composed later than Spring Fire.
*slaps myself*
Hey, this sounds like Bax at his best.
If you haven't heard Nympholept, it's another great one from the same period, and, like Spring Fire, another one that was first performed years after Bax's death.
Do you know where I can find the score?
It has never been engraved. Bax never got to hear this work in performance.
@@chrishill3341 It was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra several years ago.
@@Jerry10062 Yes, when Mark Elder guest conducted. I have that performance. I respect Handley greatly and have had his recording for many years, as well as Elder's recording with the Halle, but the Chicago orchestra is in a different class, and I am so sorry Bax was not able to hear his score played by them. The British orchestras that tried it out back when it was written just couldn't negotiate the notes.
Spring Fire is published in the UK by Faber Music via Warner Chappel - the score/parts are currently only available for hire, but considering that Bax's music has just come out of copyright I would imagine that a lot of Bax's music will soon become more readily available