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In Reply to: RE: Music of Arnold Bax posted by John C. - Aussie on April 30, 2009 at 19:21:53
My 2005/6 edition of the Penguin Guide list gives the Bryden Thomson/Ulster Orchestra box set of the Bax Symphonies ***, and as I recall, they always liked Thomson's Bax recordings, but I haven't searched the earlier editions I have.
I have Symphony No. 4 and Tintagel on Chandos CHAN 8312, and also Tone Poems (November Woods, Happy Forest, Garden of Fand, Summer Music) on CHAN 8307. The sound is certainly very good and I don't think you can go wrong with them on that score.
The Penguin Guide likes the Handley set of the symphonies better, but I have not heard it.
The PG also likes the Naxos series with Lloyd-Jones, but I can't determine whether they like them better or not. I have Symphonies No. 4 and 5, and the sound is quite good. I ordinarily would listen to the two Thomson and two Lloyd-Jones discs I have before commenting, but while I don't dislike Bax's music, I am not that much of a fan, either, and I am not in the mood to do that right now, and would not be a good person to give a recommendation as to the performances, anyway. I do like Thomson's Tone Poems Chandos CD.
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