Product Review

New recordings, plus legendary performances on CD for the first time! Arnold Bax (1883-1953) was unique among British composers in creating a sound world that evokes a wild, romantic, legendary landscape. His music, post-Romantic in style, has a strong Celtic flavor rooted in his love for the Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Aided by the catalyst of Ireland and Irish literature and song, Bax evolved a strikingly personal musical style taking in elements of impressionism, Russian nationalism, and the musical England of Elgar. Those who know the northwest coast of Scotland will find the Sixth Symphony one of music's most uncanny psychic equivalents. Many consider it Bax's finest symphony.