p, 1883-1953 GB
Musician / Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music. In addition to a series of symphonic poems he wrote seven symphonies and was for a time widely regarded as the leading British symphonist.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Symphony No. 2; Winter Legends | Arnold Bax | 2017 | Album |
Choral Music | Frederick Delius, Arnold Bax, The Carice Singers, George Parris | 2017 | Album |
English Works For Viola And Orchestra | Arnold Bax, Sir William Walton, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hong-Mei Xiao, MÁV Szimfónikus Zenekar, Kovács János | 2017 | Album |
British Cello Sonatas | John Ireland, Frederick Delius, Arnold Bax, Lionel Handy, Jennifer Hughes | 2017 | Album |
British Cello Concertos | Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss, Ernest John Moeran, Gerald Finzi - Raphael Wallfisch | 2016 | Compil. |
Elgar - Sea Pictures, Bax - Tintagel, Stanford - Songs Of The Sea | Arnold Bax, Sir Edward Elgar, Charles Villiers Stanford | 2015 | Compil. |
Symphony In F (1907) | Arnold Bax, Martin Yates | 2014 | Album |
Phantasy / Four Orchestral Pieces / Overture, Elegy And Rondo | Arnold Bax, Philip Dukes | 2014 | Album |
Winter Legends * Morning Song * Saga Fragment | Arnold Bax, Ashley Wass, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, James Judd | 2011 | Album |
Piano Quintet In G Minor, Piano Quintet In D Minor | Arnold Bax - Frank Bridge - Ashley Wass, Tippett Quartet | 2010 | Album |
Symphonic Variations | Arnold Bax, Ashley Wass, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, James Judd | 2009 | Album |
Sonata For Cello And Piano - Legend-Sonata / Divertimento For Solo Cello | Arnold Bax / Gordon Jacob | 2008 | Album |
Zodiac | Auréole - William Mathias • Arnold Bax • Jan Bach • Richard Rodney Bennett | 2008 | Album |
Tone Poems Vol. 2 | Arnold Bax | 2008 | Album |
Berg - Bernstein - Salonen - Brotons - Honegger - Bax | Cristo Barrios, Clinton Cormany, Alban Berg, Leonard Bernstein, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Salvador Brotons, Arthur Honegger, Arnold Bax | 2008 | Album |
The Piano Music | Arnold Bax, Iris Loveridge | 2008 | Album |
Music For Two Pianos | Arnold Bax, Ashley Wass, Martin Roscoe | 2007 | Album |
Symphony No. 6 / Irish Landscape / Overture To Adventure / Rogue's Comedy Overture / Overture: Work in Progress | Arnold Bax, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Norman Del Mar / The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley | 2007 | Album |
On The Sea-Shore / The Sea / Four Sea Interludes And Passacaglia / The Fisherman Of Loch Neagh And What He Saw | Arnold Bax / Frank Bridge / Benjamin Britten / Charles Villiers Stanford / Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley | 2007 | Compil. |
Bax: Tintagel / Delius: The Walk To The Paradise Garden; A Song Of Summer; Irmelin Prelude; La Calinda; In A Summer Garden / Ireland: A London Overture | Sir John Barbirolli, Arnold Bax, Frederick Delius, John Ireland, The London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra | 2007 | Compil. |
Orchestral Works, Volume 8 | Arnold Bax, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Brighton Festival Chorus, Vernon Handley | 2006 | Album |
Tone Poems | Arnold Bax | 2006 | Album |
Clarinet Sonatas; Piano Trio; Trio In One Movement | Arnold Bax, Robert Plane, Gould Piano Trio | 2006 | Album |
Piano Works, Vol. 3 | Ashley Wass, Arnold Bax | 2006 | Album |
Piano Sonatas Nos. 3 And 4 - Water Music • Winter Waters | Arnold Bax - Ashley Wass | 2005 | Album |
Symphonic Poems. Tintagel. November Woods. The Tale The Pine Trees Knew | Arnold Bax, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones | 2005 | Compil. |
Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 - Dream In Exile & Nereid | Arnold Bax - Ashley Wass | 2004 | Album |
Orchestral Works, Volume 7 | Arnold Bax, Margaret Fingerhut, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 2004 | Compil. |
Orchestral Works Volume 3 | Arnold Bax | 2003 | Album |
Orchestral Works, Volume 4 | Arnold Bax | 2003 | Album |
Orchestral Works Volume 2 | Arnold Bax | 2003 | Album |
Untitled | Trio Nobis - Toru Takemitsu / Martin Matalon / Claude Debussy / Maurice Ravel / Erik Satie / Arnold Bax | 2003 | Album |
The Symphonies | Arnold Bax | 2003 | Album |
Orchestral Works, Volume 1 | Arnold Bax | 2003 | Album |
Orchestral Works, Volume 6 | Arnold Bax, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 2003 | Album |
Symphony No.6, Into The Twilight | Arnold Bax | 2003 | Album |
Symphony No. 7 • Tintagel (Tone Poem) | Arnold Bax / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones | 2003 | Album |
The Film Music Of Sir Arnold Bax (Oliver Twist / Malta, GC | Arnold Bax, Rumon Gamba | 2003 | Album |
Sinfonietta • Overture, Elegy And Rondo | Arnold Bax / Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth | 2003 | Album |
Symphony No. 4 • Nympholept | Arnold Bax / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones | 2002 | Album |
Symphony nO.8 In D Minor / Garden Of Fand / A Shropshire Lad - Orchestral Rhapsody | Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, George Butterworth, Sir John Barbirolli Conducts Hallé Orchestra | 2002 | Album |
String Quartet No. 3 | Arnold Bax | 2002 | Album |
String Quartets Nos. 1 And 2 | Arnold Bax - The Maggini Quartet | 2001 | Album |
English Music For Viola | Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Rebecca Clarke, Percy Grainger, Arnold Bax, Frank Bridge, Paul Coletti, Leslie Howard | 2001 | Album |
London Pageant / Tamara / Cathaleen-ní-Hoolihan / Concertante | Arnold Bax – BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins | 2001 | Album |
Symphony No. 5 • The Tale The Pine-Trees Knew | Arnold Bax / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones | 2000 | Album |
Symphony No. 3 / The Happy Forest | Arnold Bax - Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones | 2000 | Album |
Chamber Music | Arnold Bax, Mobius | 2000 | Album |
Concertante For Piano (Left Hand), The Bard Of Dimbovitza | Arnold Bax | 1999 | Album |
Symphony No. 2 / November Woods | Arnold Bax, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones | 1999 | Album |
A Sheaf Of Songs From Ireland | John Larchet, Charles Villiers Stanford, Arnold Bax, Havelock Nelson, Hardebeck Carl, Vincent O'Brien, Gerard Victory | 1998 | Album |
Octet / String Quintet / Concerto For Flute, Oboe, Harp And String Quartet / Threnody And Scherzo / In Memoriam (1916) | Arnold Bax, Margaret Fingerhut, The Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 1998 | Album |
Symphony No. 1 • In The Faery Hills • The Garden Of Fand | Arnold Bax / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones | 1997 | Album |
The Piano Music Of Arnold Bax Volume IV | Arnold Bax - Eric Parkin | 1997 | Album |
English Music For Oboe And Strings | Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss, Benjamin Britten, Pamela Pecha, Audubon Quartet | 1997 | Album |
BPO/Downes | Arnold Bax, Granville Bantock | 1996 | Compil. |
Nonet • Oboe Quintet • Elegiac Trio • Clarinet Sonata • Harp Quintet | Arnold Bax, The Nash Ensemble | 1996 | Album |
Elgar / Bax / Hadley / Bliss / Holst / Ireland | Sir Edward Elgar / Arnold Bax / Patrick Hadley / Arthur Bliss / Gustav Holst / John Ireland — BBC Symphony Orchestra, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra - Sir Adrian Boult | 1995 | Compil. |
Méditations | Maarika Järvi, Paul Cortese, Marie-Pierre Langlamet - Claude Debussy, Arnold Bax, Harald Genzmer, André Jolivet, Nathan Currier | 1995 | Album |
Music For Viola & Piano And Piano Solo | Arnold Bax / Richard Crabtree, Charles Matthews | 1994 | Album |
English Music For Viola | Paul Coletti | 1994 | Album |
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 in D; Bax: Tintagel | Sir John Barbirolli, Arnold Bax, Ralph Vaughan Williams, The London Symphony Orchestra | 1994 | Album |
Complete Works For Cello And Piano | Arnold Bax, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Yolande Wrigley | 1994 | Album |
Tintagel / Nympholept / Paean / Christmas Eve / Dance Of Wild Irravel / Festival Overture | Arnold Bax, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1993 | Album |
Symphony Nos. 2 & 5 | Arnold Bax | 1992 | Album |
Symphonic Poems - Northern Ballad No.1 | Sir Adrian Boult conducts Arnold Bax | 1992 | Album |
Symphony No 1 / Symphony No 7 | Arnold Bax - Myer Fredman, Raymond Leppard, The London Philharmonic Orchestra | 1992 | Compil. |
1931: Lambert Concerto, Bax Nonet, Rieti Serenata | Constant Lambert, Arnold Bax, Vittorio Rieti, Harmonia Ensemble, Giuseppe Grazioli | 1991 | Album |
Violin Concerto / A Legend / Romantic Overture / Golden Eagle | Arnold Bax, Lydia Mordkovitch, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1991 | Album |
The Complete Symphonies | The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson, Arnold Bax | 1990 | Album |
The Piano Music of Arnold Bax Volume 3 | Arnold Bax, Eric Parkin | 1990 | Album |
The Truth About Russian Dancers / From Dusk Till Dawn | Arnold Bax - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1990 | Album |
In The South (Alassio), Froissart, Three Characteristic Pieces / Phantasy | Sir Edward Elgar / Arnold Bax | 1990 | Compil. |
Piano Quintet In G Minor / String Quartet No. 2 In E Minor | Arnold Bax, Mistry String Quartet, David Owen Norris | 1990 | Album |
Symphony No. 5, Russian Suite | Arnold Bax, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1989 | Album |
Cello Concerto Arr. For Viola, Three Characteristic Pieces. Phantasy For Viola And Orchestra | Sir Edward Elgar, Arnold Bax, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted By Vernon Handley Soloist Rivka Golani | 1989 | Album |
Bax: Symphony No. 5 & Russian Suite | Arnold Bax, Bryden Thomson, The London Philharmonic Orchestra | 1989 | Album |
Music For Oboe & Strings | Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss & Benjamin Britten - Pamela Woods, Audubon Quartet | 1989 | Album |
Choral Works | Arnold Bax / Brighton Festival Chorus, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley | 1989 | Album |
The Piano Music Of Arnold Bax Volume II | Arnold Bax - Eric Parkin | 1988 | Album |
Symphony No. 6 / Festival Overture | Arnold Bax - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1988 | Album |
Symphony No. 6 / Festival Overture | Arnold Bax - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1988 | Album |
Piano Duos | Arnold Bax, Seta Tanyel, Jeremy Brown | 1988 | Album |
Symphony No. 7 / Four Songs | Arnold Bax - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson, Martyn Hill | 1988 | Album |
Sinfonietta • Overture, Elegy And Rondo | Arnold Bax, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth | 1987 | Album |
Symphonic Variations / Morning Song (Maytime In Sussex) | Arnold Bax - Margaret Fingerhut, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1987 | Album |
Cello Sonata / Cello Sonata / Rhapsodie Ballad / Passacaglia | Frank Bridge / Frederick Delius / Arnold Bax / Sir William Walton, Raphael Wallfisch, Peter Wallfisch | 1987 | Album |
The Piano Music Of Arnold Bax Volume I | Arnold Bax - Eric Parkin | 1987 | Album |
Symphony No. 2 / Nympholept | Arnold Bax - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1987 | Album |
Winter Legends / Saga Fragment | Arnold Bax - Margaret Fingerhut, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1987 | Album |
Cello Concerto • Northern Ballad No.3 • Cortè̩ge • Mediterranean • Overture To A Picaresque Comedy | Arnold Bax, Raphael Wallfisch, Bryden Thomson, The London Philharmonic Orchestra | 1987 | Album |
Piano Trio No 2; Piano Trio In B Flat | Frank Bridge, Arnold Bax, Borodin Trio | 1987 | Album |
Spring Fire / Symphonic Scherzo • Northern Ballad No. 2 | Arnold Bax - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley | 1986 | Album |
Symphony No. 3 / Dance Of Wild Irravel / Paean | Arnold Bax - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1986 | Album |
Mater Ora Ffilium, I Sing Of A Maiden, This Worldes Joie, Magnificat, God Is Gone Up, Lo, The Full Final Sacrifice | Arnold Bax, Gerald Finzi ; The King's College Choir Of Cambridge | 1986 | Album |
Four Sea Interludes / The Sea / On The Sea Shore | Benjamin Britten / Frank Bridge / Arnold Bax – Ulster Orchestra, Vernon Handley | 1986 | Album |
Symphony No. 1 / Christmas Eve | Arnold Bax - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson | 1986 | Album |
Sir Arnold Bax, Music For Films - Oliver Twist / Malta G. C. | Arnold Bax | 1986 | Album |
Tone Poems Vol. 2 | Arnold Bax - Bryden Thomson • Ulster Orchestra | 1985 | Album |
String Quartet No. 1 / Piano Quartet / Harp Quintet | Arnold Bax - English String Quartet, John McCabe / Skaila Kanga | 1984 | Album |
Tone Poems | Arnold Bax, Bryden Thomson, Ulster Orchestra | 1984 | Album |
Carols / 5 Fantasies On Polish Carols / 4 Old English Carols / Fantasia On Greensleeves | John Rutter / Arnold Bax / Gustav Holst / Ralph Vaughan Williams - Bel Canto Voices, Plymouth Festival Chorus & Orchestra, Philip Brunelle | 1984 | Album |
Tone Poems | Arnold Bax, Bryden Thomson, Ulster Orchestra | 1983 | Album |
Clarinet Sonata / Clarinet Quintet / 6 Studies In English Folksong | Arnold Bax / Arthur Bliss / Ralph Vaughan Williams - Janet Hilton, The Lindsays, Keith Swallow | 1983 | Album |
Of A Rose I Sing (Choral Music By Sir Arnold Bax) | Arnold Bax - BBC Northern Singers, Stephen Wilkinson | 1983 | Album |
Symphony No. 3 | Arnold Bax, Myer Fredman, The Sydney Symphony Orchestra | 1983 | Album |
Symphony No. 4 / Tintagel | Arnold Bax - Bryden Thomson, Ulster Orchestra | 1983 | Album |
Malcolm Binns Plays Bax | Malcolm Binns Plays Arnold Bax | 1982 | Album |
Two English Oboe Quintets | Arnold Bax / Arthur Bliss - Bert Lucarelli, The Manhattan String Quartet | 1981 | Album |
Chamber Music For Strings | Frank Bridge, Arnold Bax, Lennox Berkeley | 1978 | Album |
Bax: Symphony No. 6 | Arnold Bax | 1977 | Album |
Sonata For Viola And Piano • Fantasy Sonata For Viola And Harp | Arnold Bax – Emanuel Vardi, Abba Bogin, Margaret Ross | 1977 | Album |
Symphony No. 7 | Arnold Bax | 1975 | Single |
Symphony No. 7 | Arnold Bax | 1975 | Album |
Pastorale | Gustav Holst / Ralph Vaughan Williams / John Ireland / Ernest John Moeran / Arnold Bax / Peter Warlock / John McCabe | 1974 | Album |
Festival Of English Music Vol. 4 | Sir Edward Elgar, Arnold Bax, Sir William Walton, Arthur Bliss | 1972 | Compil. |
Symphony No 5 | Arnold Bax - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Raymond Leppard | 1972 | Album |
Trios For Flute, Viola And Harp | Friedrich Voss, Arnold Bax, Marc Lavry, Ami Ma'Ayani | 1972 | Album |
The Garden Of Fand / Tintagel / Northern Ballad No. 1 / Mediterranean | Arnold Bax - The London Philharmonic Orchestra • Sir Adrian Boult | 1972 | Album |
Festival Of English Music Vol. 2: Portsmouth Point ∙ Siesta ∙ Scapino / A Shropshire Lad ∙ The Banks Of Green Willow / Tintagel / The Wasps - Overture | Sir William Walton / George Butterworth / Arnold Bax / Ralph Vaughan Williams, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult | 1972 | Compil. |
Symphony No. 1 in E-Flat Major | Arnold Bax, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Myer Fredman | 1971 | Album |
Symphony No 2 | Arnold Bax - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Myer Fredman | 1971 | Album |
Music For Clarinet & Piano | Leonard Bernstein, Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Arnold Bax - Stanley Drucker, Leonid Hambro | 1971 | Album |
String Quartet In G Minor / Violin Sonata No. 1 | Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax - Aeolian String Quartet, Henry Holst, Frank Merrick | 1971 | Album |
A Shropshire Lad / The Banks Of Green Willow / A John Field Suite / There Is A Willow Grows Aslant A Brook / Dance In The Sunlight | George Butterworth / Sir Hamilton Harty / Frank Bridge / Arnold Bax - Neville Dilkes Conducting English Sinfonia | 1971 | Album |
Sir Arnold Bax, Symphony No. 1 In E Flat | Myer Fredman, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Arnold Bax | 1971 | Album |
Symphonic Variations | Arnold Bax, Joyce Hatto, Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted By Vernon Handley | 1970 | Album |
Fourth Symphony | Arnold Bax, Vernon Handley, Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra | 1970 | Album |
Symphony No. 3 & 'The Happy Forest' | Arnold Bax - The London Symphony Orchestra, Edward Downes | 1969 | Album |
Fifine at the fair etc. | Sir Thomas Beecham, Granville Bantock, Arnold Bax, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | 1968 | Album |
Symphony No. 1 / Overture To A Picaresque Comedy / Divertimento | Richard Rodney Bennett / Arnold Bax / Lennox Berkeley - Igor Buketoff, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | 1968 | Album |
English Tone Pictures | Sir John Barbirolli • John Ireland / Arnold Bax / Frederick Delius • The London Symphony Orchestra | 1967 | Album |
Sonata No.2 / Sonata No.2 | Arnold Bax / Sir Michael Tippett / Peter Cooper | 1967 | Album |
Symphony No 6 | Arnold Bax, New Philharmonia Orchestra Conducted By Norman Del Mar | 1967 | Album |
Piano Quintet In A Minor, Op. 84 / Legend For Viola And Piano | Sir Edward Elgar / Arnold Bax | 1966 | Album |
Sonata For Cello & Piano . Folk-Tale | Florence Hooton, Wilfrid Parry, Arnold Bax | 1966 | Album |
Piano Quintet / Legend For Viola And Piano | Sir Edward Elgar / Arnold Bax - Aeolian String Quartet, Leonard Cassini, Watson Forbes | 1966 | Album |
Bax/Bliss Viola Sonatas | Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss, Herbert Downes, Leonard Cassini | 1964 | Album |
Piano Quintet / Legend For Viola And Piano | Sir Edward Elgar / Arnold Bax - Aeolian String Quartet, Leonard Cassini, Watson Forbes | 1963 | Album |
Sonata For Cello & Piano, Folk-Tale | Arnold Bax, Florence Hooton, Wilfrid Parry | 1959 | Album |
Music For Harp And Strings | Arnold Bax, Jacques Ibert, Gian Francesco Malipiero | 1951 | Album |
Fourth Piano Sonata / Elegiac Trio / Syrinx | George Antheil, Frederick Marvin / Arnold Bax / Claude Debussy / Marty Ruderman, Milton Thomas, Lois Adele Craft | 1950 | Album |
Warsaw Concerto ‧ Cornish Rhapsody ‧ Oliver Twist | Richard Addinsell / Hubert Bath / Arnold Bax / Muir Mathieson ‧ The London Symphony Orchestra / Harriet Cohen ‧ Philharmonia Orchestra | 1950 | Album |
Symphony No 3 / The Happy Forest | Arnold Bax, Edward Downes, The London Symphony Orchestra | Album | |
Arnold Bax - Symphony No6 | Arnold Bax | Compil. | |
Fourth Symphony | Arnold Bax - Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley | Album | |
Fugal Overture, Sinfonietta, November Woods | Gustav Holst, Ernest John Moeran, Arnold Bax, Sir Adrian Boult, The London Philharmonic Orchestra | Album |