Bax: Tone Poems - November Woods, The Happy Forest, The Garden of Fand, Summer Music

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Product description ------------------- Tone Poems Vol.2, Volume 21 of the Richard Strauss Edition , Contents -- Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30 (1896); Don Quixote Op.35 (1897); Ein Heldenleben Op.40 (1898); Symphonia domestica Op.52 (1903); .com ---- Sir Arnold Bax (1883-1953) was a prolific composer, producing works in every musical genre except opera. But over the years he has become best known as a composer of tone poems. This is Volume One of Chandos' two-volume set of the best of them. And the best of the works here is November Woods, wherein Bax captures a peculiar, almost Edwardian nostalgia and longing for a lost landscape. This seems almost contradicted by The Happy Forest, which has its own underlying melancholy. Arnold Bax was (and is) the master of the British tone poem. --Paul Cook