Sir Arnold Bax: Tintagel (Intro)

[maxatthepond1]

Again, thanks to Ken Young of Wellington, N.Z. who turned me onto Bax back in 1978/79!!!

[wenglishsal]

OOh I am loving this piece... very atmospheric indeed.. Lovely, lovely and did I say lovely.. Definitely added to my fav's now.. :0)x

[Kenentigern7]

For somebody who seeks the sea and the waves, and there are enough storms to bleach that strand of ...........

[legatofancier]

I am an American and I LOVE Arnold Bax. He deserves wider recognition as a great composer. His symphonies are extraordinary! His music should easily stand the test of time!

[SirTedFairyspear]

A windswept day looking out over the Cornish cliffs......

This is a superb piece. Why concert halls aren't ringing out with the sound of Bax's romantic, melodic, evocative tone-poems is beyond me.

Ironically Bax is especially neglected in the UK!

[gaspode18]

@SirTedFairyspear It's all there, isn't it? The sunlight glinting on the water, the wheeling gulls, crshing wavea and the taste of salt...........

[SirTedFairyspear]

@gaspode18

It certainly is! I'm off to Cornwall next week (not to Tintagel itself , but to the Penwith Peninsula - where the seascapes are even more dramatic!) and hope to immerse myself in the full sensory experience that inspired this Bax masterpiece.

Knowing the British weather in September, along with the wheeling gulls, crashing waves and the tang of salt will be the rain lashing against my face!

[gaspode18]

@SirTedFairyspear You know what they say in that part of the world, Sir Ted - If you can see the moors it's going to rain. If you can't see the moors, it's raining.

Sorry about my lousy typing on the last message, btw. My keyboard is at death's door. I think I'll help to pull it through!

[SirTedFairyspear]

@gaspode18

I'm going prepared........heaviest overcoat, wellies, lots of towels to dry the dog off with, a pile of unread books from Amazon and a bunch of new CDs - blues by Asie Payton and Robert Belfour, and some classical - Elgar, Bantock, Arnell, Leighton.......oh, and an old one - "Tintagel" by Arnold Bax!

[MrGoaly35]

Absoulutly Gorgeous...

[MrGoaly35]

How about I comment on both...how amny people outside of a few A true Anglosaxons have heard this peice...both Fand and Tintagel are two of my favorite peices...most people easily recognize Holst' The Planets...But how many get a chance to hear Bax! Thanks for posting this!!

[IncaRoad01]

@MrGoaly35 I'd be hard pushed to consider myself to be a 'true anglosaxon' and yet I am more than we aware of Bax's music. So much so I just happened to have uploaded some of his work ;o) I'm not so sure ethnicity comes into it at all, but instead a love of music and a will to explore what is out there.

[MrGoaly35]

@IncaRoad01 I am definitly as about AngloSaxon as any one can get, but yes you are right! I sure appreciate your love of music and I thank you for bringing this peice exposure...

[MrGoaly35]

@IncaRoad01 Yes...I think "true anglosaxons" are a vanishing breed. Or maybe we never were so pure as we would like to think, but one of our greatest values is to explore...thanks so much!

[uryuu300]

I love Arnold <3 Thanks a million for uploading! I've just recently started listening to his fantastic music. I just have one question: Could also upload "November Woods"? I LOVE that piece sooo much!

[stickwagger]

The version by Barbirolli and the LSO is very fine. Is this recording the SNO? The cymbal clash is a nat's whisker's too early. Good brass sound though.

Thank you for bringing people's attention to this music.

[Danzig987]

Yes, let's have that magnificent crashing wave that ends the piece!

[IncaRoad01]

This is indeed a great piece. I will at some point get around to uploading the entire piece.

However, nobody has yet commented on the 'Garden of Fand'.

It is a truly magical piece ... give it a listen!

[wardropper]

Gorgeous piece of music. Sheer magic.

[Ear4Beauty]

I agree that Bax is underated. I consider him the British Ravel of sorts. I am fond of the 5th symhony, 4th symphony, the stirring Festival Overture, and the Cello Concerto.

[eastindiaman]

Arnold Bax - highly underated, which is a great shame for such a brilliant and descriptive composer. Thank you Incaroad for redressing the balance