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Bax: Symphony No. 2 & Winter Legends / Various
Lyrita

Bax: Symphony No. 2 & Winter Legends / Various

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Details

Composer
BAX, ARNOLD
Artist
Goossen, Mccabe, Leppard
Format
CD
Label
Lyrita
Released
Nov 03, 2017
Catalog #
REAM1137
UPC
5020926113726

About

English composer Arnold Bax was born in the late nineteenth century but had his maturity and came to prominence in the first half of the twentieth. His was an affluent and literate London-based family and Bax was able to pursue a dazzling career undistracted by worldly necessities. He had no need to earn a living, teach, give concerts, court the great and good or chase commissions. In this sense he was like his ultimately more popular contemporary Vaughan Williams. No stranger to writing songs, chamber music and piano solos, Bax seemed most fluently at ease with the orchestra. The Second Symphony, written in London and Geneva, carries a dedication to Serge Koussevitsky who directed the premiere with his Boston Symphony Orchestra on 13 December 1929. Eugene Goossens gave the United Kingdom premiere on 30 May 1930. Bax who had not been able to travel to Boston, wrote: “I feel very grateful to Eugene for his brilliant performance … which lifted it at last for me into a purely abstract world. So for the moment I feel unduly tender towards its grim features.”

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 I. Molto moderato - Allegro moderato 14:41
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Molto moderato - Allegro moderato
    Duration
    14:41
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugène Goossens
  2. 2 II. Andante 11:58
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    11:58
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugène Goossens
  3. 3 III. Poco largamente - Allegro feroce - Molto largamente 10:07
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Poco largamente - Allegro feroce - Molto largamente
    Duration
    10:07
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Ensemble
    BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Eugène Goossens
  4. 4 I. Allegro 15:03
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    15:03
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Performer
    John McCabe
    Ensemble
    BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Raymond Leppard
  5. 5 II. Lento, molto espressivo 14:00
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Lento, molto espressivo
    Duration
    14:00
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Performer
    John McCabe
    Ensemble
    BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Raymond Leppard
  6. 6 III. Molto moderato - Allegro molto 08:47
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Molto moderato - Allegro molto
    Duration
    08:47
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Performer
    John McCabe
    Ensemble
    BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Raymond Leppard
  7. 7 III. Epilogue: Molto cantabile 05:03
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Epilogue: Molto cantabile
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Arnold Bax
    Performer
    John McCabe
    Ensemble
    BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Raymond Leppard