Starter Packs

Complete your collection with these curated titles, grouped at a special discount.

Shop Now
Naxos

BAX: Sinfonietta / Overture, Elegy and Rondo

$13.99
$19.99 Save 30%

Details

Composer
BAX
Artist
Barry, Wordsworth
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Aug 01, 2003
Catalog #
8555109
UPC
747313510924

About

The Sinfonietta is entitled 'Symphonic Phantasy' on the unpublished manuscript (echoes of the original title of Sibelius's Seventh Symphony) and it remained unperformed during the composer's lifetime. He was unsure of it and told the conductor Christopher Whelen, to whom he gave the manuscript in 1950, that he didn't want it played. Whelen faithfully obeyed this injunction until 1983, when he was very reluctantly persuaded to let it be performed during Bax's centenary year. (He had previously refused a request from Robert Ponsonby to allow it to be premièred at a Prom in 1980, where it would have shared the program with the first performance of Rubbra's Eleventh Symphony under Nicholas Cleobury.) Vernon Handley and the BBC Welsh Orchestra eventually gave the first performance at a recording session in Llandaff on 25 June 1983 for broadcasting later that year. (Odd to think that it has only ever been played in Wales and Czechoslovakia.)

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 Overture 07:57
    Track
    1
    Title
    Overture
    Duration
    07:57
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barry Wordsworth
  2. 2 Elegy 08:26
    Track
    2
    Title
    Elegy
    Duration
    08:26
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barry Wordsworth
  3. 3 Rondo 07:21
    Track
    3
    Title
    Rondo
    Duration
    07:21
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barry Wordsworth
  4. 4 I. Molto moderato - Allegro 07:24
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Molto moderato - Allegro
    Duration
    07:24
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barry Wordsworth
  5. 5 II. Tempo primo 09:25
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Tempo primo
    Duration
    09:25
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barry Wordsworth
  6. 6 III. Allegro 05:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    05:11
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Ensemble
    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barry Wordsworth