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Bax: Piano Music

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CHAN 10132
 
Multiple Set of 4 CDs
Bax: Piano Music
Running Time: 247:25

Release Date: September 2003
Originally recorded in June 1985
Composer (1883-1953)
Sir Arnold Bax
Solo piano
Eric Parkin
Venue
Rosslyn Hill Chapel, London
Venue
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk
Venue
St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead
Venue
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Producer (discs 1-3)
Christopher Palmer
Producer (disc 4 Salzburg Sonata)
Tim Oldham
Producer (disc 4 other works)
Mike George
Engineer (discs 1-3)
Ralph Couzens
Engineer (disc 4, Salzburg Sonata)
Richard Lee
Engineer (disc 4, other works)
Ben Connellan
Engineer (Assistant: disc 2)
Philip Couzens
Genre:
Piano

Temporarily out of stock

Complete Piano Music

SIR 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 DISC 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
Solo: Eric Parkin piano
4-7 June 1985 (discs 1 and 2)
21 & 22 November (1988) (disc 3)
24 June 1991 (disc 4, Salzburg Sonata)
19-21 August 1996 (disc 4, other works)






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