Bax - Violin Sonatas Vol.2 | Naxos 8570094

Bax - Violin Sonatas Vol.2

£12.30

Usually available for despatch within 2-3 working days

Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570094

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 12th November 2007

Contents

Artists

Laurence Jackson (violin)
Ashley Wass (piano)

Works

Bax, Arnold

Ballad
Legend
Violin Sonata in F major
Violin Sonata in G minor
» Allegro appassionato
Violin Sonata no.2 in D major

Artists

Laurence Jackson (violin)
Ashley Wass (piano)

About

A far cry from the heart-on-sleeve romanticism of his First Violin Sonata (Naxos 8.557540), Bax’s Second Violin Sonata reflects the composer’s concerns regarding the First World War. This is particularly evident in the second movement, described by the composer as a ‘dance of death’ in which the violin remains muted throughout.

The Legend and Ballad were composed around the time of Bax’s finest symphonic poems and share those works’ refined drama as well as their lush exoticism.

The unnumbered Sonata in F, actually Bax’s fourth and last Violin Sonata, was suppressed by the composer during his lifetime as he soon scored it as the Nonet. It was not performed as a sonata until the celebrations for the centenary of Bax’s birth in 1983.

"Laurence Jackson and Ashley Wass mastermind the most exquisitely poised and insightful interpretation I've yet encountered…I'm already itching to hear what Jackson and Wass will make of the magnificently mean and moody Second Sonata." Gramophone on Volume 1.

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here