Bax - Symphonic Variations, Concertante for Piano | Naxos 8570774

Bax - Symphonic Variations, Concertante for Piano

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570774

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th March 2009

Contents

Artists

Ashley Wass (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

James Judd

Works

Bax, Arnold

Concertante for Piano and Orchestra 'for the left-hand'
Symphonic Variations in E major

Artists

Ashley Wass (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

James Judd

About

Bax completed five works for piano and orchestra, beginning in 1916 with the highly virtuosic Symphonic Variations dedicated to the pianist Harriet Cohen. The work was likened by Rosa Newmarch, who wrote the programme note for the first performance, ‘to some great epic poem dealing with the adventures of a hero . . . passing through a number of different experiences.’

The Concertante for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra (1949) is on a smaller scale. The romantic slow movement opens with a beautiful and haunting piano tune which gives way to a brooding atmospheric middle section, coloured by typical Baxian orchestral textures, like swirling mists in a nocturnal vision of some Irish coastal vista.
Penguin Guide 4 stars

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