Arnold Bax: Tone Poems (2006)

If this is the sort of thing you love, you'll love this disc. What sort of thing is it? It's an early 20th century Anglo-Irish thing; a Delius meets Debussy singing "Londonderry Air" sort of thing; a heroic horns, evocative winds, shimmering strings, atmospheric harps sort of thing; a yearning melodies, sensual harmonies, pliant rhythms, amorphous structure sort of thing. And if that's the sort of thing you love -- and you'd have to be pretty hard hearted not to love it at least a little at least some of the time -- you'll ... Read More

If this is the sort of thing you love, you'll love this disc. What sort of thing is it? It's an early 20th century Anglo-Irish thing; a Delius meets Debussy singing "Londonderry Air" sort of thing; a heroic horns, evocative winds, shimmering strings, atmospheric harps sort of thing; a yearning melodies, sensual harmonies, pliant rhythms, amorphous structure sort of thing. And if that's the sort of thing you love -- and you'd have to be pretty hard hearted not to love it at least a little at least some of the time -- you'll love this disc. A self-described 'brazen Romantic,' Arnold Bax was an English composer without an unquenchable longing for Ireland and the four orchestral works on this disc certainly live up to that billing. "In the Faery Hills" has the smell of the high county in it; "November Woods" has the echo of distant wars in it; "The Garden of Fand" has the tang of western sea in it; and "Sinfonietta" has the ring of honest emotion in it. An old hand at the Anglo-Irish thing with superlative... Read Less

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