| …superlative performances of several lesser known Bax works by an artist who has obviously thought long and hard about how best to perform this music. | ||
| —Richard R. Adams, The Sir Arnold Bax Website |
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The new Sestina by Peter Thompson is an extended one-movement work. It takes its cue from the verse form, though it is not a literal mirror. A sense of repeated rhyme is given throughout in the way musical material is treated. This is merely a technical device whilst the music itself is Romantic in concept and, though episodic, has a sense of developing drama which the repeating ‘rhyme’ helps to evoke.
The first published edition of Sir Arnold Bax’s Piano Sonata in E flat (‘Nº 3’), later to become his First Symphony. The Sonata contains material not used in the Symphony, together with a completely different second movement. A wonderful addition to our Bax collection!
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