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  <div class="message"><p>‘I wish you could have lessons with Arnold Bax. He is the greatest living composer’ ― Rachmaninov.<br>This startling quotation, on p.339 of Lewis Foreman’s revised biography, is just one of many fascinating new pieces of information deriving from the Harriet Cohen material in the British Library. When she died, on 13 November 1967, her will was found to contain a bequest to the British Museum Library (as it then was) of all her papers on the understanding that nobody should be allowed to see them until thirty…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/reviews/blog/7462693/lewis-foreman-s-bax-a-composer-and-his-times-review-by-graham-parlett">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Norman Del Mar’s performance of No.6 was only the third commercial recording of a Bax symphony. It came out on LP in 1967, at a time when the composer’s reputation was at its lowest since his death, and was partlyresponsible for generating renewed interest among a younger generation of listeners. It was the first performance of the work that I had ever heard, and listening to it again in this excellent new reissue I was able to rekindlesomething of the pleasure which it gave me at the time. Del Mar takes…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/reviews/blog/7462691/del-mar-s-classic-bax-sixth-along-with-new-handley-overtures-on-lyrita-review-by-graham-parlett">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>It is common knowledge that as well as being a composer Arnold Bax &nbsp;was a prolific man of letters, with four plays, at least thirty short stories, and over 300 poems to his name – or rather to that of his alter ego, Dermot &nbsp; O’Byrne. Much of his poetry and most of his fiction was published between 1908 and 1923, but none of it had a wide circulation, and many of his acquaintances and admirers during his lifetime would have been only hazily aware of this side to his creative activities. In 1979 Lewis Foreman…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/reviews/blog/7462695/ideala-poems-and-some-early-love-letters-by-arnold-bax-reviewed-by-graham-parlett-and-chris-webber">Read more</a></span></div>
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<p>Despite its popularity during the composer’s lifetime, Bax’s <i>Symphony No.4</i> is critically least prized of his seven. Its mercurial, often extrovert moods, sun-streaked ebullience and triumphal close may lie at the root of both criticism and quondam popular success. Even Vernon Handley has been guarded: “We all say that this is the weakest of the seven symphonies; but one must allow that in every symphonic canon a fine symphonic composer has the right to be a bit bluff and happy now and then.” ¹Given such…</p>
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  <div class="message"><p>Amidst the hullabaloo surrounding Vernon Handley’s new set of the symphonies, it would be easy to overlook Chandos’s second, almost equally significant issue commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Bax’s death. The first complete recording of his score for David Lean’s 1947 film of <i>Oliver Twist</i> yields over 30 minutes previously unavailable music, much of it very high quality. Once again we might reflect on received wisdom that Bax’s creative fires petered out before World War 2, if scores such as this and the…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/reviews/blog/7462696/the-film-music-of-sir-arnold-bax-oliver-twist-chandos-10126-reviewed-by-christopher-webber">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p><strong>Review by Graham Parlett: &nbsp;</strong>When Vernon Handley recorded Bax’s Fourth Symphony with the Guildford Philharmonic in 1964 it was the first of his symphonies to have been recorded since Barbirolli’s pioneering version of the Third two decades earlier. Three years later Richard Itter issued Norman Del Mar’s fine recording of the Sixth on his Lyrita label, and then came the First and Second under Myer Fredman and the Fifth and Seventh under Raymond Leppard. Edward Downes’s RCA recording of No.3 had appeared in…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/reviews/blog/7462698/vernon-handley-conducts-the-complete-bax-symphonies-by-graham-parlett-and-richard-r-adams">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Fans of British music and Baxians in particular had good cause to celebrate in November.&nbsp; Vernon Handley turned 70 and to celebrate that occasion, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra invited the great conductor to program several of his favorite works in two concert series featuring the orchestra and chorus in Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall.&nbsp;What was sad was that so few people attended the first concert in the series – the program that featured Handley’s favorite symphony, Bax’s glorious Sixth.</p><p><br>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/reviews/blog/7462694/vernon-handley-s-70th-birthday-concert-a-report-by-richard-r-adams">Read more</a></span></div>
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