Arnold Bax Complete Piano Sonatas & Symphony No.1 Solo Piano Transcription | Classical Music Sheet for Piano Enthusiasts & Concert Performances

For this masterful album, the best review I can write would consist of these verses:Bax: Symphony Sonata(heroic piano sonata, later adapted as Bax’s First Symphony)Rough, brusque as Hagen’s blasted steerhorn callin Götterdämmerung. Perhaps trombones,unstopped French horns could sound this utter fall.This keyboard avalanche in blended groans—more fierce yet, blending two types of drum tattoo—yields stunningly abrupt to the odd peacea lilting made-for-James-Galway-on-flutepastoral gesture gives: relief, releaseconsoles the injured. Softly caressing lute…then drums again, to climax. Now imbuethe stunned and wounded scene, in a remotenew key, with wetland Debussy-arrayof pedal-gentle dissonance given to float,then ravishment, worthy Ravel at his most Jeux d’Eau:gold beaten eggshell-fine? Or fountain-play?At last, peace roughly shattered, but this time glee,all pipe-skirls, bootfalls trampling tragedy…andBax’s Pianofor Michael Endres on his complete Bax piano sonata cycleA sympathetic tic, insistent, throbsin my right player-piano hand while youbrushfire clean through these masterworks like Bob’syour uncle. Nor are you simply burning through.Oh yes, the end-to-end breathspending sprintsthat leave no keystone key untapped: the racingscales, Bax triplet-against-duplet handprints,counterpoint brimming to climax, beyond bracing.But also those agonized languors, delicatetinges. Masterful pedal sustains, erasesdream subtleties. White-shouldered Tania, tasting of fate,dissolves upon Mary of Marlow waters, leaf-traces…Your Bax might be Ravel elegance leaping parkour,all obstacles whimsical. Lightning tongues a shade darker.