| a fine strong piece, beautifully written for the piano… | ||
| —Philip Mead (Pianist), Founder, British Contemporary Piano Competition |
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| a fine strong piece, beautifully written for the piano… | ||
| —Philip Mead (Pianist), Founder, British Contemporary Piano Competition |
Click the quotation text to discover what it refers to!
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The piano piece “Mask” is central to understanding the developmental trajectory of Arnold Bax’s musical language, which was reaching maturity between 1912 and 1914. This hitherto hidden gem represents a fundamental milestone within the path of Bax’s stylistic and aesthetic evolution. It was written on July 22, 1912 (the same month Nympholept was composed), approximately one month after the arrival in London of Serge Diaghilev’s celebrated “Ballets Russes,” for whom Bax had written the unperformed and unpublished ballet Tamara, composed between July and November 1911. On a personal note, Bax had married Elsita Sobrino in 1911, and in January 1912, his first son, Dermot, was born. It was therefore a period of significant and enriching personal and artistic stimuli…..From Ennio Caironi’s Introduction to this first edition.
“Mask” was dedicated to Gustav Holst’s cousin, Mary Lediard.
Hitherto thought lost, we have Nick Barnard to thank for discovering the manuscript in a sale at Hanson’s and having the forethought to copy it from the auction house’s catalogue.
In 1830, demands for a living wage by farm workers in Hampshire led to an agricultural revolt. During this period, a local Justice of the Peace ordered a group of labourers to disperse. Getting down from his horse, the JP collared their leader and, during the ensuing disturbance, his hat was knocked off. As a result, a 19-year-old labourer was charged with attempted murder, tried, found guilty and hanged. Legend has it that snow never remains on the site of his grave.
In 1830, demands for a living wage by farm workers in Hampshire led to an agricultural revolt. During this period, a local Justice of the Peace ordered a group of labourers to disperse. Getting down from his horse, the JP collared their leader and, during the ensuing disturbance, his hat was knocked off. As a result, a 19-year-old labourer was charged with attempted murder, tried, found guilty and hanged. Legend has it that snow never remains on the site of his grave.
Soprano Lorna Windsor, whose recordings of the Four Swinburne Pictures are provided below, has more recently recorded the second song, A Match, with William Hancox, piano on the At the Open Door CD.
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P. F. Owen’s Collected Poems • 1979–2025 is a distillation of work wrought over years.
Writing upon perennial themes in poetry – on loss, on longing and on love – the Collected Poems is a carefully constructed longer poem divided into many leaves of seasons, months, days and moments.
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Chinese Lantern Music was written for Anne Claxton and the Petersfield Area Youth Orchestra. It was first performed by that orchestra (under the baton of David Thomas) in the Petersfield Musical Festival, March 1992.
This work is perfectly suitable for performance by school, youth or amateur orchestra.
Parts are available on request; please enquire.
Chinese Lantern Music was written for Anne Claxton and the Petersfield Area Youth Orchestra. It was first performed by that orchestra (under the baton of David Thomas) in the Petersfield Musical Festival, March 1992.
This work is perfectly suitable for performance by school, youth or amateur orchestra.
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