Arnold Bax - * Symphony No. 6 • Irish Landscape • Rogue's Comedy Overture • Overture to Adventure • Overture: Work in Progress

* New Philharmonia Orchestra
Norman Del Mar, conductor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.296
UPC/EAN: 5020926029621
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: DDD / ADD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 75.43
Price: Ł 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Tracks 1 - 3: No recording information available
Track 4: Recorded at Walthamstow, 30 August 1975
Tracks 5 - 7: Recorded at Watford, 18 January 1994, Producers: Andrew Keener, Oliver Rivers, Engineers: Trygg Tryggvason, Andrew Halifax

Conflict lies at the heart of Arnold Bax’s seven symphonies. His rather self-indulgent youthful music had shown itself capable of tragedy in such things as November Woods (1917), the Piano Quintet (1915), and the Second Piano Sonata (1919). But the First Symphony (1921-2) reflected a psychic upheaval that must have shaken him to the foundations. He has denied that it was the First World War, and we must take his word for it that there was no conscious influence - but the Easter Rising was another matter ...

	Symphony No. 6 (1934)	Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)	39.32
1	I Moderato – Allegro con fuoco		10.26
2	II Lento, molto espressivo		10.52
3	III Introduction – Scherzo & Trio - Epilogue		18.14
4	Irish Landscape (1913)	Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)	7.28
5	Rogue's Comedy Overture (1936)	Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)	10.54
6	Overture to Adventure (1937)	Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)	9.28
7	Overture: Work in Progress (1943)	Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)	8.18