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Catalogue Number: CLASSCD254 | |
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British Symphonic Collection Volume 3 ARNOLD BAX 1883-1953 SYMPHONY NO. 6; TINTAGEL Munich Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock, conductor |
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REVIEWS "….splendid performances of British music by a German Orchestra….Tintagel given a ripely romantic performance…" Michael Kennedy - Sunday Telegraph "World Premiere recording of the vividly coloured Overture to Adventure…The orchestra admirably captures the music's essence and Bostock proves a fine Bax advocate…." David Denton - Yorkshire Post "Bostock captures the spirit of fantasy and adventure …sensitive to Bax's love affair with beauty…" "…Tintagel is given the best performance I have heard…" |
Symphony No 6, written in 1934, was dedicated to Adrian Boult (of whom Douglas Bostock was a pupil). Unusually, it has three movements, the Scherzo and Trio and Finale being telescoped into one a device used before by Bax in his 3rd Symphony. Tintagel - this piece (described by the composer as a picture of the sea off the North Cornwall coast viewed from the cliff of Tintagel on a sunny day but not windless day) contains textures reminiscent of Debussy. The piece is romantic and unmistakably English. Overture to Adventure WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING - Bax says that this work has no programme attached to it and follows- more or less - the usual form of the classical Overture. In spite of this comment by the composer the Overture does have a title and the woodwind figure which begins the work is of a character consistent with the title and the work continues in the same vain closing with a soul-stirring climax which ends this exhilarating adventure. |
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