Bax - Viola & Piano Music | Naxos 8557784

Bax - Viola & Piano Music

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557784

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 30th October 2006

Contents

Artists

Martin Outram (viola)
Laurence Jackson (violin)
Julian Rolton (piano)

Works

Bax, Arnold

Concert Piece (Fantasy)
Legend
Trio in One Movement
Viola Sonata

Artists

Martin Outram (viola)
Laurence Jackson (violin)
Julian Rolton (piano)

About

The two string players on this disc are members of the Maggini Quartet, whose previous collaborations have won praise from Gramophone for their lyricism and grace: “this is exceptional chamber playing… they play with great beauty of tone and variety of colour and with passionate expressiveness” (Naxos 8557394). 
 
Although Bax is best known for his orchestral music, especially his tone poems and seven romantic symphonies, he also composed a large corpus of highly individual chamber music. Inspired by the legendary violist Lionel Tertis, Bax’s romantic Viola Sonata is one of his greatest and most characteristic works, written at the highpoint of his career in the early 1920s. Bax’s writing for the viola has a personal and distinctive eloquence also evident in the early Piano Trio and the later Legend.

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