Lento moderato - Piu mosso - Poco largemente - Tempo I
Allegro - Allegro scherzando - Piu largamente - Vivo
The blustery opening movement begins with the strings and woodwinds playing a joyous melody, eventually joined by solo trumpet. It is probably the most imposing opening of the Bax symphonies, drawing inspiration from the sea. The organ is used and there are six horns (being the most in any Bax symphony). The second subject is much calmer and gorgeously melodic, being introduced by solo oboe and then taken up by the strings. The first movement ends triumphantly and joyously with brass major chords at its close.
The symphony is written in a single movement of 22 variations and is approximately 45 minutes in length. Ronald Weitzman writes, "The form of Schnittke's Fourth Symphony [is] at once cross-shaped and spherical.... The composer draws musically on the three main strands of Christianity—Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant—while underlying this is a three–note semitone interval motif representing synagogue chant, thus symbolizing the Jewish source of Christianity." The result, Ivan Moody writes, is that Schnittke "attempts to reconcile elements of znamennïy and Gregorian chant, the Lutheran chorale and Synagogue cantillation ... within a dense, polyphonic orchestral texture" A tenor and a countertenor also sing wordlessly at two points in the symphony. Words are saved for a finale in which all four types of church music are used contrapuntally as a four-part choir sings the Ave Maria. The choir can choose whether to sing the Ave Maria in Russian or Latin. The programmatic intent of using these different types of music, Schnittke biographer Alexander Ivashkin writes, is an insistence by the composer "on the idea ... of the unity of humanity, a synthesis and harmony among various manifestations of belief."
Symphony No. 4, subtitled Sinfonía romántica (Romantic Symphony) is an orchestral composition by Carlos Chávez, composed in 1953.
History
The score was commissioned by and is dedicated to the Louisville Orchestra, which premiered the work on 11 February 1953, conducted by the composer. After the first few performances, Chávez decided that the final movement, though sound in itself, was not satisfactory as a conclusion to this symphony. Consequently, he composed a new finale in October 1953, and published the original movement as a separate work, titled Baile (cuadro sinfónico) (Dance, Symphonic Picture) (Orbón 1987c, 80).
Instrumentation
The Symphony is scored for an orchestra of three flutes (third doubling piccolo), two oboes, cor anglais, two clarinets, three bassoons (third doubling contrabassoon), four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (three players), and strings.
Vernon Handley conducts the Guildford Philharmonic in the 1964 premiere recording of Bax's Fourth Symphony. The LP was first issued on a Concert Hall LP (LPA 1097) and was later reissued on cassette and CD -- neither of which are currently available. This recording is taken from the 1983 cassette and has been mastered and edited by Christopher Webber. In addition to being the first stereo recording of a Bax symphony, it was also Vernon Handley's first commercial recording. He served as music director of the Guildford Philharmonic for 21 years. Sadly, the orchestra has now been disbanded.
published: 12 Apr 2020
Symphony No. 4, GP. 307: I. Allegro moderato
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Bax: Symphony No. 4, Nympholept & Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
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Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
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Composer: Arnold Bax
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Symphony No. 4, GP. 307: III. Allegro
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Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Nympholept
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Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
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Rachmaninov - Preludes Op.23 No.4 in D major (Alessio Bax)
Alessio Bax, pf
Recording : Wyastone Hall, Monmouthshire, June 2010
c & p Signum records 2011
published: 20 Jul 2018
If I Could Choose Only One Work By...BAX
It Would Have To Be...Symphony No. 2
Perhaps Bax's most approachable and tuneful symphony, it provides the perfect gateway into his very personal, magical musical realm.
The List So Far:
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18....
published: 22 Jun 2023
Bax Symphony 4 conducted by Maurice Handford
Maurice Handford conducts the Hallé Orchestra in this broadcast recording from October 1965. This performance was much admired by Vernon Handley and many consider it the definitive interpretation of Bax's most joyous symphony.
published: 27 Feb 2020
Symphony No. 4, GP. 307: II. Lento moderato
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Bax: Symphony No. 4, Nympholept & Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
℗ 2002 Naxos
Released on: 2002-05-21
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Vernon Handley conducts the Guildford Philharmonic in the 1964 premiere recording of Bax's Fourth Symphony. The LP was first issued on a Concert Hall LP (LPA ...
Vernon Handley conducts the Guildford Philharmonic in the 1964 premiere recording of Bax's Fourth Symphony. The LP was first issued on a Concert Hall LP (LPA 1097) and was later reissued on cassette and CD -- neither of which are currently available. This recording is taken from the 1983 cassette and has been mastered and edited by Christopher Webber. In addition to being the first stereo recording of a Bax symphony, it was also Vernon Handley's first commercial recording. He served as music director of the Guildford Philharmonic for 21 years. Sadly, the orchestra has now been disbanded.
Vernon Handley conducts the Guildford Philharmonic in the 1964 premiere recording of Bax's Fourth Symphony. The LP was first issued on a Concert Hall LP (LPA 1097) and was later reissued on cassette and CD -- neither of which are currently available. This recording is taken from the 1983 cassette and has been mastered and edited by Christopher Webber. In addition to being the first stereo recording of a Bax symphony, it was also Vernon Handley's first commercial recording. He served as music director of the Guildford Philharmonic for 21 years. Sadly, the orchestra has now been disbanded.
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Released on: 2002-05-21
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
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It Would Have To Be...Symphony No. 2
Perhaps Bax's most approachable and tuneful symphony, it provides the perfect gateway into his very personal, magical music...
It Would Have To Be...Symphony No. 2
Perhaps Bax's most approachable and tuneful symphony, it provides the perfect gateway into his very personal, magical musical realm.
The List So Far:
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
19. Chopin: Preludes
20. Verdi: Rigoletto
21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2
22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet)
23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos
27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
28. Smetana: Ma Vlást
29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
30. Bizet: Carmen
31. Elgar: In the South
32. Sullivan: The Mikado
33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA
34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
35. Monteverdi: Orfeo
36. Scarlatti: Sonatas
37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17
38. Berg: Wozzeck
39. Hermann: Psycho (film score)
40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini
41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
42. Holst: Suites for Military Band
43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony
46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
49. Korngold: Violin Concerto
50. Tallis: Spem in Alium
51. Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
52. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
53. Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat
54. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
55. Franck: Violin Sonata
56. Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
57. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Egyptian”
58. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
59. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
60. Albeniz: Iberia
61. Bernstein: Mass
62. Schreker: Chamber Symphony
63. Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
64. Dukas: Piano Sonata
65. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
66. Tippett: Piano Concerto
67. Poulenc: Songs (ATMA, 5 discs)
68. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1
69. Gluck: Alceste
70. Vivaldi: L’estro armonico, Op. 3
71. Puccini: La Bohème
72. Hanson: Symphony No. 2 “Romantic”
73. Alkan: 12 Etudes in All the Minor Keys, Op. 39
74. Dutilleux: Métaboles
75. Glinka: Kamarinskaya
76. Crumb: Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening)
77. Biber: Sonata violino solo representativa
78. Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella
79. Arnold: Symphony No. 5
80. Fauré: Piano Quartets (Trio Wanderer) Harmonia Mundi
81. Hovhaness: Fra Angelico
82. Martinu: Symphony No. 6 “Fantaisies symphoniques”
83. Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
84. Corelli: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6
85. Bellini: Norma
86. Ives: “Concord” Sonata
87. John Williams: Jaws (film score)
88. Honegger: Le Roi David (King David)
89. Kodály: “Peacock” Variations
90. Milhaud: Une Vie Heureuse (10 CD Set, Erato)
91. Scriabin: Piano Sonatas (Hamelin/Hyperion)
92. Casella: Concerto for Orchestra
93. Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus
94. Chabrier: España
95. Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
96. Waxman: Sunset Boulevard (film score)
97. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
98. Suk: A Summer Tale
99. Delius: A Song of the High Hills
100. Telemann: Tafelmusik
101. Stenhammar: Serenade
102. Orff: Trionfi (Carmina Burana, Catulli Carmina, Trionfo di Afrodite)
It Would Have To Be...Symphony No. 2
Perhaps Bax's most approachable and tuneful symphony, it provides the perfect gateway into his very personal, magical musical realm.
The List So Far:
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
19. Chopin: Preludes
20. Verdi: Rigoletto
21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2
22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet)
23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos
27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
28. Smetana: Ma Vlást
29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
30. Bizet: Carmen
31. Elgar: In the South
32. Sullivan: The Mikado
33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA
34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
35. Monteverdi: Orfeo
36. Scarlatti: Sonatas
37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17
38. Berg: Wozzeck
39. Hermann: Psycho (film score)
40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini
41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
42. Holst: Suites for Military Band
43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony
46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
49. Korngold: Violin Concerto
50. Tallis: Spem in Alium
51. Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
52. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
53. Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat
54. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
55. Franck: Violin Sonata
56. Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
57. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Egyptian”
58. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
59. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
60. Albeniz: Iberia
61. Bernstein: Mass
62. Schreker: Chamber Symphony
63. Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
64. Dukas: Piano Sonata
65. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
66. Tippett: Piano Concerto
67. Poulenc: Songs (ATMA, 5 discs)
68. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1
69. Gluck: Alceste
70. Vivaldi: L’estro armonico, Op. 3
71. Puccini: La Bohème
72. Hanson: Symphony No. 2 “Romantic”
73. Alkan: 12 Etudes in All the Minor Keys, Op. 39
74. Dutilleux: Métaboles
75. Glinka: Kamarinskaya
76. Crumb: Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening)
77. Biber: Sonata violino solo representativa
78. Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella
79. Arnold: Symphony No. 5
80. Fauré: Piano Quartets (Trio Wanderer) Harmonia Mundi
81. Hovhaness: Fra Angelico
82. Martinu: Symphony No. 6 “Fantaisies symphoniques”
83. Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
84. Corelli: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6
85. Bellini: Norma
86. Ives: “Concord” Sonata
87. John Williams: Jaws (film score)
88. Honegger: Le Roi David (King David)
89. Kodály: “Peacock” Variations
90. Milhaud: Une Vie Heureuse (10 CD Set, Erato)
91. Scriabin: Piano Sonatas (Hamelin/Hyperion)
92. Casella: Concerto for Orchestra
93. Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus
94. Chabrier: España
95. Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
96. Waxman: Sunset Boulevard (film score)
97. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
98. Suk: A Summer Tale
99. Delius: A Song of the High Hills
100. Telemann: Tafelmusik
101. Stenhammar: Serenade
102. Orff: Trionfi (Carmina Burana, Catulli Carmina, Trionfo di Afrodite)
Maurice Handford conducts the Hallé Orchestra in this broadcast recording from October 1965. This performance was much admired by Vernon Handley and many cons...
Maurice Handford conducts the Hallé Orchestra in this broadcast recording from October 1965. This performance was much admired by Vernon Handley and many consider it the definitive interpretation of Bax's most joyous symphony.
Maurice Handford conducts the Hallé Orchestra in this broadcast recording from October 1965. This performance was much admired by Vernon Handley and many consider it the definitive interpretation of Bax's most joyous symphony.
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Symphony No. 4, GP. 307: II. Lento moderato · Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Bax: Symphony No. 4, Nympholept & Over...
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Bax: Symphony No. 4, Nympholept & Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
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Released on: 2002-05-21
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Bax: Symphony No. 4, Nympholept & Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
℗ 2002 Naxos
Released on: 2002-05-21
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Vernon Handley conducts the Guildford Philharmonic in the 1964 premiere recording of Bax's Fourth Symphony. The LP was first issued on a Concert Hall LP (LPA 1097) and was later reissued on cassette and CD -- neither of which are currently available. This recording is taken from the 1983 cassette and has been mastered and edited by Christopher Webber. In addition to being the first stereo recording of a Bax symphony, it was also Vernon Handley's first commercial recording. He served as music director of the Guildford Philharmonic for 21 years. Sadly, the orchestra has now been disbanded.
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Symphony No. 4, GP. 307: I. Allegro moderato · Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Bax: Symphony No. 4, Nympholept & Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
℗ 2002 Naxos
Released on: 2002-05-21
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Symphony No. 4, GP. 307: III. Allegro · Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Bax: Symphony No. 4, Nympholept & Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
℗ 2002 Naxos
Released on: 2002-05-21
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Nympholept · Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Bax: Symphony No. 4, Nympholept & Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
℗ 2002 Naxos
Released on: 2002-05-21
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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It Would Have To Be...Symphony No. 2
Perhaps Bax's most approachable and tuneful symphony, it provides the perfect gateway into his very personal, magical musical realm.
The List So Far:
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
19. Chopin: Preludes
20. Verdi: Rigoletto
21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2
22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet)
23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos
27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
28. Smetana: Ma Vlást
29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
30. Bizet: Carmen
31. Elgar: In the South
32. Sullivan: The Mikado
33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA
34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
35. Monteverdi: Orfeo
36. Scarlatti: Sonatas
37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17
38. Berg: Wozzeck
39. Hermann: Psycho (film score)
40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini
41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
42. Holst: Suites for Military Band
43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony
46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
49. Korngold: Violin Concerto
50. Tallis: Spem in Alium
51. Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
52. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
53. Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat
54. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
55. Franck: Violin Sonata
56. Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
57. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Egyptian”
58. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
59. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
60. Albeniz: Iberia
61. Bernstein: Mass
62. Schreker: Chamber Symphony
63. Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
64. Dukas: Piano Sonata
65. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
66. Tippett: Piano Concerto
67. Poulenc: Songs (ATMA, 5 discs)
68. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1
69. Gluck: Alceste
70. Vivaldi: L’estro armonico, Op. 3
71. Puccini: La Bohème
72. Hanson: Symphony No. 2 “Romantic”
73. Alkan: 12 Etudes in All the Minor Keys, Op. 39
74. Dutilleux: Métaboles
75. Glinka: Kamarinskaya
76. Crumb: Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening)
77. Biber: Sonata violino solo representativa
78. Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella
79. Arnold: Symphony No. 5
80. Fauré: Piano Quartets (Trio Wanderer) Harmonia Mundi
81. Hovhaness: Fra Angelico
82. Martinu: Symphony No. 6 “Fantaisies symphoniques”
83. Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
84. Corelli: 12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6
85. Bellini: Norma
86. Ives: “Concord” Sonata
87. John Williams: Jaws (film score)
88. Honegger: Le Roi David (King David)
89. Kodály: “Peacock” Variations
90. Milhaud: Une Vie Heureuse (10 CD Set, Erato)
91. Scriabin: Piano Sonatas (Hamelin/Hyperion)
92. Casella: Concerto for Orchestra
93. Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus
94. Chabrier: España
95. Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
96. Waxman: Sunset Boulevard (film score)
97. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
98. Suk: A Summer Tale
99. Delius: A Song of the High Hills
100. Telemann: Tafelmusik
101. Stenhammar: Serenade
102. Orff: Trionfi (Carmina Burana, Catulli Carmina, Trionfo di Afrodite)
Maurice Handford conducts the Hallé Orchestra in this broadcast recording from October 1965. This performance was much admired by Vernon Handley and many consider it the definitive interpretation of Bax's most joyous symphony.
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Symphony No. 4, GP. 307: II. Lento moderato · Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Bax: Symphony No. 4, Nympholept & Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
℗ 2002 Naxos
Released on: 2002-05-21
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composer: Arnold Bax
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Lento moderato - Piu mosso - Poco largemente - Tempo I
Allegro - Allegro scherzando - Piu largamente - Vivo
The blustery opening movement begins with the strings and woodwinds playing a joyous melody, eventually joined by solo trumpet. It is probably the most imposing opening of the Bax symphonies, drawing inspiration from the sea. The organ is used and there are six horns (being the most in any Bax symphony). The second subject is much calmer and gorgeously melodic, being introduced by solo oboe and then taken up by the strings. The first movement ends triumphantly and joyously with brass major chords at its close.
The popular Yaniv Dinur, who served as MSO assistant and then resident conductor for eight seasons through 2022-'23, returns to conduct Tchaikovsky's Symphony No ... 3, Beethoven; Symphony No ... 6, Beethoven; Symphony No ... 3, Prokofiev; Symphony No.