November Woods (1917), The Tale the Pine Trees Knew (1931), and The Happy Forest (1914, orchestrated 1921) are perhaps less specifically programmatic than the first two pieces, but they share the same evocative moods and lavish, post-Romantic orchestration, of which Bax was an accomplished practitioner early on. I'd never heard of Bax when I picked this up from the library. I was surprised by what I heard. Obrigado pela sua encomenda. Também partilhamos informação com os nossos parceiros das redes sociais, de publicidade e de analítica sobre o seu uso do nosso website. Some, like the November Woods, are lesser known (at least to this listener), but good for a quiet interlude, or great background for a commute to work. But the tone poems are shorter, more straight-forward, and quite marvelous. THE STUFF OF LEGENDS...FUEL YOUR IMAGINATION!! The pieces were quite lovely, played wonderfully, and I found myself wondering more about this composer Bax. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2014. and having established that there is such a thing, qualitatively different from the French late romantics, we must accept with a good grace that occasional tendency towards banality which afflicts his writing, overmatched as it is by the zestful, dream-time, fantastical and chivalric feelings which are the true makeup of Bax at his best. George Szell - The Complete Columbia Album Collection, Elgar / Bax / Delius / Vaughan Williams: The British Symphonic Collection. Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 100-year archive of POETRY magazine. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Arnold Bax composed several symphonic poems during the second and third decades of the 20th century, when he was at the peak of his creative powers. Bax wrote some very listenable tone poems in the earlier part of the 20th century. They evoke legends in a rather superficial way, and I suppose they have `atmosphere' of much the kind that tourist books about legends have. Even though he was English-born and -bred, Arnold Bax was fascinated in his youth by Celtic and Nordic folklore, and was inspired to compose his most popular symphonic poems around Cornish, Irish, Scottish, and Norwegian subjects. The most successful of these works is Tintagel (1919), a dramatically turbulent but also luxuriant orchestral depiction of the cliffs of Cornwall and the ocean under them. 1 poems of Sascha Bax. Some, like the November Woods, are lesser known (at least to this listener), but good for a quiet interlude, or great background for a commute to work. They take us in turn to Cornwall, Ireland, a generalised pastoral scene of Greek legend, Scotland and the Chilterns. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2016. They are obviously 20th century music, but of a fairly traditional and romantic kind. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. After all, Mahler is often praised for his blending of the vulgar with the sublime and if Sir Arnold is not so intellectual he does at least have some appreciation of brevity. Produtos Novos! Prazo de entrega aproximado: 14-21 dias. I'd found myself resistent to his symphonies, which tend to meander, and, even many years later, I'm still not crazy about them. Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2005. I like his work, but do find some of his 'English' quirks a bit tiresome from time to time. The composer was of East Anglian roots himself, and I would have thought that that part of England had plenty of individuality of its own, witness the poems of Crabbe to say nothing of the music of Britten.
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