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FERNANDO OLIVA   23/2/2004	Subject: IS ARNOLD BAX ANOTHER NEGLECTED COMPOSER? Message: Dear Friends: I am sorry it has taken so long to contact to this wonderful Forum! I am glad to read about the young Raff´s life in Switzerland. I would like to request your expert opinions about the english neglected composer Arnold Bax. I wondered listening to "Titangel". It´s a great and well orchestrated sea landascape picture. I am afraid that Bax´ tone poems that I listened as "Titangel", "The tale the pine tree knew", "November Woods", "Nympholept" or "Overture to a Picaresque Comedy" are better than his long scale Symphonies. Thanks in advance. Kind regards from Spain! Fernando.
Mark   24/2/2004	RE: IS ARNOLD BAX ANOTHER NEGLECTED COMPOSER? IP: Logged Message: FWIW, I'm afraid that I just don't "get" Bax. In fact I don't get any British composer of the Bax / Vaughan Williams generation, despite being English myself. To me, his symphonies all sound pretty much the same - at turns bombastic and all-purpose pastoral. No doubt he's a fine composer - he just doesn't push any of my buttons.
FERNANDO OLIVA   26/2/2004	RE: IS ARNOLD BAX ANOTHER NEGLECTED COMPOSER? IP: Logged Message: Dear Mark, Thank you for your expert opinion. I think Bax iks the Strauss´ english version although at times he sounds like a competent Sibelius imitator. I confess I prefer to listen to Bax´ Symphonies than the Sibelius ones, with the only exception of Sibelius 5th. Symphony. Perhaps, my Bax´favorite is the 7th. I also have heard the 2nd., 4th. and 5th ones. I am afraid Bax is a good composer although under the Elgar´s or Vaughan-Williams level. Kind regards from Barcelona, Fernando.