Bax: Symphony in F

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Yates's orchestration of Bax's massive work is entirely in keeping with the composer's exuberant early strivings...this profligate creation, never heard in public, has risen from the dead, and... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Dec 2013
Catalogue No: CDLX7308
Label: Dutton
Series: Epoch
Length: 78 minutes

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Arnold Edward Trevor Bax: Symphony in F

Work length1:18:21

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Martin Yates, Royal Scottish National Orchestra

I. Allegro molto vivace - Molto più lento (Andante) - Allegro molto vivace

Track length20:28

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II. Andante con moto - Molto maestoso - Andante poco maestoso

Track length18:31

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III. Intermezzo: Tempo di valsero

Track length14:00

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IV. Finale: Molto vivace - Poco maestoso - Allegretto (Grazioso) - Presto - Tranquillo - Poco marcia - Allegretto (Grazioso) - Alla breve - Presto

Track length25:22

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Bax Symphony number nought at last! The piano score of Arnold Bax’s Symphony in F of 1907 was completed by its composer but never orchestrated, and has long been one of the great “might-have-beens” of the British symphonic repertoire, along with Elgar’s Third Symphony and E. J. Moeran’s Second. Unlike Elgar and Moeran, Bax actually completed his symphony, and now Martin Yates has set it into full score, managing to catch the elusive, idiomatic sound of Bax’s orchestra in a convincing way we never expected to hear. The glorious second movement in particular, on a similar scale to his many later tone poems, is revealed as a striking and poetic creation in which Bax finds his voice. All lovers of English music will want to get to grips with this epic, romantic score.

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May 2014

Yates's orchestration of Bax's massive work is entirely in keeping with the composer's exuberant early strivings...this profligate creation, never heard in public, has risen from the dead, and can be weighed analysed, and savoured.

7th February 2014

a young man’s symphony written when his ideas flowed urgently like milk and honey. This is cause for joy among Baxians. Loquacious, self-indulgent, gorgeous and densely luxuriant as it is, you would do well to hear it.

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