ARNOLD BAX (1883-1953)

Three Northern Ballads

32:35

1

First Northern Ballad (1927, orchestrated 1931)

9:59

To Basil Cameron

Tempo moderato - Allegro moderato con fuoco -

2

Second Northern Ballad (orchestrated 1933-34)

14:02

To Adam Carse

Moderato (alla breve) - Poco più mosso -

3

Prelude for a Solemn Occasion (Third Northern Ballad) (1927, orchestrated 1933)

8:16

Maestoso. Moderato - Listesso tempo - Molto moderato

4

Nympholept (1912, orchestrated 1915)

15:23

Nature Poem for Orchestra

To Constant Lambert

'Enter these enchanted woods,

You who dare'

Moderately slow - Largamente e nobilmente -

premiere recording

5

Red Autumn (1912)

5:03

Orchestrated by Graham Parlett (2006)

Moderato - Stormily - Andante tranquillo - Tempo I -

6

The Happy Forest (1914, orchestrated 1922)

9:42

Nature Poem

To Eugene Goossens

Vivacious and fantastic - Un pochettino più lento -

7

Into the Twilight (1908)

13:22

'Eire' No. 1

after the poem of the same name by W.B. Yeats

Lento - Un poco più mosso (Andante con moto) -

Vernon Handley

20 Novemer 2007 (The Happy Forest) & 20 and 21 December 2006 (other works)