Orchestral, Symphonies, Bax (composer)
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This Bax symphony cycle comes under the baton of the composer's doughtiest champion, and superlatives are in order. Even seasoned Baxians will be startled by the propulsive vigour and sinewy... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2003, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Orchestral
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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David Lloyd-Jones's Bax series goes from strength to strength with this clear-headed interpretation of the exhilarating Sixth Symphony (arguably the last work to show the composer at creative... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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British Symphonies
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, Vernon Handley, Adrian Boult, Myer Fredman, Norman Del Mar, John Pritchard, Lennox Berkeley, William Alwyn, Josef Krips
this is a very significant release which really deserves to be snapped up by everyone, not least those who still cling to the discredited belief that when it comes to composing symphonies, Britain... —
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Lloyd-Jones "keeps his lines defined in the vital slow music of I and the Lento, clarifying textures while probing, molding, and shaping phrases to produce an ebb and flow. In doing so, he draws... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Engineering
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If Raymond Leppard's account of the Fifth operates at a slightly lower voltage, his cannily paced, sensitive and meticulously prepared reading none the less remains a most distinguished contribution... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Re-issue of the Month
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Bax: Symphony No. 4, Nympholept & Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
David Lloyd-Jones and the RSNO continue their stimulating championship of Bax with this extremely persuasive account of the Fourth Symphony. It's at once the most exuberantly inventive and most... —
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Bax - Symphony No. 6
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Norman Del Mar & Vernon Handley
Here's yet another valuable reissue from Lyrita's vaults. Norman Del Mar's pioneering 1966 account of Bax's Sixth Symphony has held up extremely well. Occupying an interpretative middle ground... —
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Special offer. Bax: Symphony No. 7 & Four Songs
Martyn Hill (tenor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
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