Bax: Violin Concerto/Symphony No. 3

On this CD:

1. Concerto for violin & orchestra
Composed by Arnold (Sir) Bax
Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult

2. Symphony No.3
Composed by Arnold (Sir) Bax
Performed by Halle Orchestra
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

Bax: Violin Concerto/Symphony No. 3, Music, Arnold Bax, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir John Barbirolli, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, 20th/21st Century Symphony, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Concerto, Orchestral & Symphonic, Symphonic, Violin Concerto
Classical Heat
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Classical Heat

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ASIN: B00005YUAA
Release Date: 2002-05-21

Tracks:

  1. Mars, The Bringer Of War - Royal Scottish National Orchestra
  2. Sabre Dance - Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
  3. Malambo - Enrique Batiz
  4. Ride Of The Valkyries - Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
  5. Tzigane - Marat Bisengaliev
  6. Overture To Ruslan And Ludmilla - Anthony Bramall
  7. Allegro Vivace - Maggini String Quartet
  8. Dies Arae (Chorus) - Hungarian State Opera Choir
  9. Ritual Fire Dance - Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
  10. Dance Of The Knights - Andrew Mogrelia
  11. Joie Du Sang Des Etoiles - Thomas Bloch
  12. Allegro - Alexander Rahbari
  13. Molto Allegro E Appassionato - Wendy Warner
  14. King Kashchey's Infernal Dance - Alexander Rahbari
  15. O Fortuna - Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Tracks:

  1. Adagio - Moderato - Maria Kliegel
  2. 'Siste Farvel' (The Last Farewell) - Royal Scottish National Orchestra
  3. Vocalise Op.34 No.14 - Vytautas Sondeckis
  4. O Soave Fanciulla - Luba Orgonasova
  5. Intermezzo - Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
  6. Aria - Royal Ballet Sinfonia
  7. Liebestod - Johannes Wildner
  8. Idylle Printemps - English Northern Philharmonia
  9. Lento - Vlach Quartet Prague
  10. Gluck, Das Mir Verblieb - Thomas Sunnegardh
  11. Rhythmic Variations On Two Ancient Hymns - Kenneth Schermerhorn
  12. Adagio For Strings, Op.11 - Marin Alsop

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Classical Wonder.......2003-05-18

As an avid classical music listener, and cellist, Classical Heat was the perfect blend of energized, fast-paced works, and then on the second disk, a more mellow, yet still firey, works. I would recommend this CD set to every classical listener, even people that don't normally like the classical genre will enjoy this cd.

5 out of 5 stars Beware the Flame.......2002-06-14

Trumpet blasts, french horn flares, all the way to the subtle reeds of the bassoon. This album will keep you interested and awake all the way through. Paired with its sister album "Classical Chill", they can be the perfect mix you have been looking for. Musician and listener alike: This CD is a must have.
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    Tracks:

    1. Rosamunde: Entr'acte in B flat - BBC SO/Sir Henry Wood
    2. Rosamunde: Ballet Music in G - BBC SO/Sir Henry Wood
    3. Sym Concertante in E flat, K.364: I. Allegro Maestoso - Jean Pougnet/Bernard Shore
    4. Sym Concertante in E flat, K.364: II. Andante - Jean Pougnet/Bernard Shore
    5. Sym Concertante in E flat, K.364: III. Presto - Jean Pougnet/Bernard Shore
    6. Il Re Pastore K.208-L'amero, Saro Costante - BBC SO/Sir Henry Wood
    7. Exsultate, Jubilate K.165-Alleluja - Elizabeth Schumann/Marie Wilson
    8. Con: I. Allegro Moderato From Beginning To 3 1/2 Bars After No.20 - Beatrice Harrison
    9. Con: I. Allegro Moderato From 3 1/2 Bars Before No.24 To 1 1/4 Bars Before No.43 - Beatrice Harrison
    10. Con: II. Nocturne (Lento) From Beginning To 2 3/4 Bars Before No.6 - Beatrice Harrison
    11. Con: II. Nocturne (Lento) From 2 Bars Before No.7 To End Of Movt - Beatrice Harrison
    12. Con: III. Molto Vivace From 1 Bar Before No.1 To 1 1/2 Bars Before No.21 - Beatrice Harrison
    13. Con: III. Molto Vivace From 4 Bars After No.24 To End - Beatrice Harrison
    14. Sym No.3 (Bax): I. Exposition - Sir Henry Wood
    15. Brandenburg Con No.3 in G, BWV 1048 - Sir Henry Wood
    Centenary Collection
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      ASIN: B0000241DS
      Release Date: 2000-10-10

      Tracks:

      1. Sun Dance ('Wand Of Youth' Ste No.1, Op.1a No.4) - RPO/Lawrance Collingwood
      2. Marigold - Richard Rodney Bennett
      3. Saint Nicolas: 2. The Birth Of Nicolas - Robert Tear/Bruce Russell/Andrew Davis/Ian Hare
      4. Str Qt 'In Gloucestershire' (No.3): II. Fairly Quick, But Always Rhythmical - Britten Qt
      5. Sym No.1 in A flat, Op.55: IV. Allegro Molto (Exc) - LPO/Sir Adrian Boult
      6. Troilus And Cressida, Act II: From Isle to Isle Chill Waters (Exc) - Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Richard Lewis
      7. Dance Scenes: IV. Molto Allegro (Conclusion) - Philharmonia Orch/Daniel Harding
      8. Ave Maria Op.2 No.2 - Harry Bramma/Chr of Worcester Cathedral/Christopher Robinson
      9. The Triumph Of Neptune (Ste): 7.Hornpipe - RLPO/Barry Wordsworth
      10. Dies Natalis: 2. Rhapsody (Opening) - Wilfred Brown
      11. Sym No.5 In D: III. Romanza (Excerpt) - Philharmonia Orch/Sir John Barbirolli
      12. Blest Pair Of Sirens (Opening) - London Phil Chr
      13. Checkmate (Ballet Ste): V. Ceremony Of The Red Bishops - Sinf Of London/Sir Arthur Bliss
      14. Peter Grimes: Act II, Scene 2: In Dreams I've Built Myself Some Kindlier Home (Opening) - Sir Peter Pears
      15. Vn Con: II. Slower (Exc) - Yehudi Menuhin
      16. The Planets: 4. Jupiter (Exc) - Toronto SO/Andrew Davis
      17. Loch Lomond - Ian Partridge
      18. Canadian Carnival (Exc) - CBSO/Sir Simon Rattle
      19. At The Boar's Head: We Two Saw You Four... (Opening) - Philip Langridge/Michael George/John Tomlinson
      20. Divertimento On 'Sellinger's Round:' III. Presto - ASMF/Sir Neville Marriner
      21. Greater Love Hath No Man (Conclusion) - Chr Of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
      22. English Dance No.5, Op.33 No.1 - Philharmonia Orch/Robert Irving
      23. On Wenlock Edge: 2. From Far, From Eve And Morning - Ian Partridge
      24. Sinfonietta: I. Allegro Con Brio (Exc) - Northern Sinf Of England/Richard Hickox
      25. Mater Ora Fillum (Opening) - Chr Of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
      26. Violin Son: II. Vars (Var.6: Scherzando) - Yehudi Menuhin/Louis Kentner
      27. Vc Con in D: II. Andante Espressivo (Opening) - Julian Lloyd Webber
      28. Three Screaming Popes (Conclusion) - CBSO/Sir Simon Rattle
      29. Con, Op.104: III. Allegro (Exc) - Phyllis Sellick/Cyril Smith
      30. The Young Person's Guide To The Orch Op.34: Fugue (Allegro Molto) - CBSO/Sir Simon Rattle
      31. Str Qt in e, Op.83: II. Piacevole (Conclusion) - Chilingirian Str Qt
      32. The Lady's Birthday - Jennifer Partridge/Baccholian Singers Of London
      33. Crown Imperial (Conclusion) - LPO/Sir Adrian Boult
      Bax: Violin Concerto/Symphony No. 3
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • a living period piece
      • Wartime Bax Performances in Great Sound
      Bax: Violin Concerto/Symphony No. 3

      Manufacturer: Dutton Laboratories
      ProductGroup: Music
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      GeneralGeneral | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B00005JJ1T
      Release Date: 2001-08-14

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars a living period piece.......2001-12-27

      I'd just like to echo what Mr. Bertonneau has said in his learned and interesting review - the CD is absorbing and involving in every way - and to add that it is nice to have this one and only (I think) example of Ida Kersey's art on disc. She was a really fine player who died only a few months after this recording was made. It is a cliche to say that with Boult and Barbirolli music by English composers was always in 'safe hands', but it's quite true. However, these performances are not 'safe' in any cautious or dull sense ; they ring with life and vigour. The sound is quite excellent and (a very small point) the atmosphere of the whole thing is just slightly enhanced by the wartime picture on the liner note cover, with its city blackout an AA searchlight.

      5 out of 5 stars Wartime Bax Performances in Great Sound.......2001-11-04

      The music of Sir Arnold Bax (1883-1953) might well be an acquired taste; precisely because Bax was such a distinct and independent personality, the music is rich and peculiar -- it is often complex, and for many years the seven symphonies were dismissed by critics as overscored and "rhapsodic" (as they usually said). They are neither. Bax is a British, rather than an English composer, assimilating Irish and Scots influences, and (oddly) Russian ones, but never, or only rarely, echoing the style of the Pastoral School. He always suffered from a paucity of performance during his lifetime and his work all but disappeared from concert programs after his death. It wasn't until the 1970s that a reappraisal occurred. Currently, there is one complete set of the symphonies, on Chandos; one in progress, on Naxos; and a few single-issues, on Classico and Lyrita. What has been missing from the Bax discography, archival recordings, now begins to appear, thanks to Dutton's offering of a 1944 reading of the Violin Concerto (1937) and a 1943 reading of the Third Symphony (1928). The first thing to say about this CD is that the acoustic reconstruction, starting from superb sources, is breath-taking. The Concerto was recorded by the BBC for repeat-broadcast during the war and benefitted from extraordinary original engineering; the Symphony was a commercial release for HMV, also "state of the art" for its time. The remastering is in the Dutton "style" of eliminating surface noise as much as possible, but there can't have been much. The sense of space and the differentiation of voices in both the Concerto and the Symphony are so good that the initial impression is of the best possible mid-1950s hi-fi mono, with a hint of stereo bloom. The soloist in the Concerto, Eda Kersey, gives a robust performance, helped along by Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. This performance is at least as good, perhaps a bit more plastic in its interpretation, as Lydia Mordkovitch's, with Bryden Thomson, on Chandos. Kersey and Boult collaborate with notable concentration to put the Concerto's First Movement in order. This consists of an "overture," a "ballade," and a "scherzo," which, in their sequence, threaten an episodic experience. Mordkovitch and Thomson, by comparison, switch gears more obviously at the articulations; Kersey and Boult negotiate the transitions with unifying smoothness. The Third figured in Bax's lifetime and for a good while thereafter as his best-known symphony. Its attractions are a slow-movement Nocturne of hushed beauty like nothing else and an Epilogue so poignant in its elegiac mood that it makes gooseflesh. This no doubt explains why John Barbirolli and HMV selected it for their 1943-44 studio sessions, with Bax present. How does this Third stack up against those of Thomson and Lloyd-Jones, who provide the competition? It's the best of the three, and for a particular reason: Barbirolli has an instinct for the long First Movement, that solves the problem of its tempo-plan. An Allegro Moderato with a slow introduction and several slow interpolations, the movement can work against itself. Barbirolli takes the introductory section faster than either Thomson or Lloyd-Jones and delivers a faster movement overall. The fugal episodes make much more sense at Barbirolli's pace than when played more slowly or languorously. The packaging is first-rate, with wartime posters of London on the front and back of the booklet, helpful and abundant annotation by Bax-biographer Lewis Foreman, and photographic documentation. This will become a collector's item. Most strongly recommended.

      Music Track:

      1. Beethoven: String Quartets, Opp. 130 & 133 [SACD] [Enhanced] [Hybrid SACD] [SACD]
      2. Beethoven: String Quartets, Opp. 59 & 74
      3. Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5, 9 and 10
      4. Bortnyansky: Sacred Concertos, Vol. 4
      5. César Franck: Organ Works
      6. Celebration!
      7. David Moritz Michael: Parthien 10-14
      8. Debussy: Estampes
      9. Dedication
      10. Dinner Party Classics: Favorites for an Elegant Evening

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