Release Date: 09 January 2007
Label: Naxos - Ex Select Products / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313041374
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: BAX, Arnold
Description
Although best known for his symphonic poems and symphonies, Bax also wrote prolifically for the piano, his instrument from the first. The two-piano music heard on this recording was written mostly in the late 1920s for the husband and wife piano duet team of Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson. It encompasses captivating miniatures such as 'The Poisoned Fountain', whose repeated piano figuration is evocative of flowing water, the impressionistic 'Moy Mell (An Irish Tone-Poem)' and 'Hardanger', which emulates the style of Grieg's folk-style piano music. The large-scale 'Sonata for Two Pianos' includes a slow movement which is formally similar to some of the orchestral tone poems, and evokes an ancient Celtic world in a striking parallel with Bax's orchestral 'The Garden of Fand'.
Tracklisting
Peter Otto; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero
Dariia Lytvishko
Michael Kaykov
Danish Chamber Orchestra; Adam Fischer
DUO Goni-Perretta
Wenting Shi
Stuttgar
Schilli
Rolf Gupta & Oslo filharmonien
Ketil Bjornstad & Sandra Lied Haga
Vox Urbane
Sophie Dervaux, La Folia Barockorchester
Sergio Vartolo
Robert Plane (clarinet); Elias String Quaret, Gould Piano Trio; James Gilchrist (tenor); Tim Horton
Nordic Affect/Marco Casonato/Massimo Marchese/La Spagna baroque orchestra/Alejandro Marias
Michael Foyle, Iain Burnside
