Arnold Bax - Complete Piano Music (Chandos Audio CD)

Complete Piano Music

Arnold Bax (1883-1953)

COMPACT DISC ONE
1 Lullaby (1920) 3:53
Berceuse

2 Country-Tune (1920) 2:00

Sonata No. 1 (1910; revised 1917-21) 19:39
in F sharp minor - in fis-Moll - en fa dièse mineur
3 Not too fast and very decisive in rhythm - Allegro passionato 7:30
4 Tempo I (Allegro deciso) - Più lento - 5:28
5 Tempo I Languido et lontano - Allegro moderato - Broad and triumphant 6:40

6 Winter Waters (1915) 6:47
Tragic Landscape

Sonata No. 2 (1919; revised 1920) 23:51
in G major - in G-Dur - en sol majeur
7 Lento. Tenebroso. Slow - moderato eroico - 8:32
8 Lento - Vivace -Tempo I 4:34
9 Tempo I - Molto largamente - Lento 10:45
56:25

COMPACT DISC TWO
Sonata No. 3 (1926) 25:42
in G sharp minor - in gis-Moll - en sol dièse mineur
1 I Allegro moderato - Vivo - Andante con moto - Tempo I - Vivace 10:26
2 II Lento moderato 8:45
3 III Allegro - Moderato molto espressivo - Tempo I 6:20

4 Water Music (1929) 5:38

5 A Hill Tune (1920) 3:57

6 In a Vodka Shop (1915) 3:27

Sonata No. 4 (1932) 18:37
in G major - in G-Dur - en sol majeur
7 I Allegro giusto - Largamente - Vivace 5:58
8 II Allegretto quasi andante 6:34
9 III Allegro - Allegro maestoso - Trionfale - Tempo I 5:52
57:49

COMPACT DSIC THREE
Two Russian Tone Pictures (1912) 13:59
1 Nocturne (May Night in the Ukraine) 8:17
2 Gopak (National Dance) 5:42

3 The Maiden with the Daffodil (1915) 4:26
Idyll

4 The Princess's Rose Garden (1915) 8:17
Nocturne

5 Apple-Blossom-Time (1915) 3:17

6 On a May Evening (1918) 6:37

7 O Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies (1945) 2:46
Variations on a North Country Christmas Carol

8 Nereid (1916) 4:29

9 Sleepy Head (1915) 5:36

10 A Romance (1918) 5:42

11 Burlesque (1920) 2:54
58:42

COMPACT DISC FOUR
1 Whirligig (1919) 3:12

2 What the Minstrel Told Us (1919) 9:56
Ballad

3 Legend (1935) 7:53

4 Dream in Exile (1916) 9:06
Intermezzo

5 A Mountain Mood (1915) 5:38

6 Mediterranean (1920) 3:14

7 Serpent Dance (1929) 3:32

8 Ceremonial Dance (1929) 4:00

9 The Slave Girl (1919) 4:27

10 In the Night (1914) 6:45

11 Toccata (1913?) 5:44

12 Paean (1920) 3:34

13 From 'Salzburg' Sonata (1937) 9:15
in B flat major - in B-Dur - en si bémol majeur
Lento espressivo
76:51
Eric Parkin piano
Recorded in:
Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, London
4-7 June 1985 (discs 1 and 2)
Recorded in:
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk
21 & 22 November (1988) (disc 3)
Recorded in:
St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London
24 June 1991 (disc 4, Salzburg Sonata)
Recorded in:
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
19-21 August 1996 (disc 4, other works)
Producer(s)
Christopher Palmer (discs 1-3)
Tim Oldham (disc 4 Salzburg Sonata)
Mike George (disc 4 other works)
Sound Engineer(s)
Ralph Couzens (discs 1-3)
Richard Lee (disc 4, Salzburg Sonata)
Ben Connellan (disc 4, other works)
Philip Couzens (Assistant: disc 2)
Ben Connellan (Assistant: disc 3)
Format: DDD
Bit Rate: 24 Bit / 96K