Stunning clarity and demonic impact in this recording, to which I should return more often. Bax's finest symphony (and there's not a dud in the bunch)...
interesting reading of this piece which is one of my absolute favorites! i'm only familiar with the Chandos recording of this one. there are some great moments here in this version but the tempos in certain sections of the work seemed a bit too rushed. he nailed what i call the 'pot boiler' moment around 23:39 (great ritard into that one), but in the third movement when the organ comes in around 33:33 it feels too rushed and especially at the 34:24 mark where he climbs down from the high point, it's clipping along at double the tempo of the Chandos - sounds like a completely different piece or possibly a different revision of the score. it gets back on track (for me) towards the end and ends beautifully but that climbdown is like twice as fast as the Chandos and it spoils the effect for me overall. but of course that's my subjective opinion and quite possibly the Chandos recording was taking significant liberties with the tempo. anyway thanks tremendously for sharing this. more versions of this stunning piece are always welcome!
Having been "raised" on this recording, I'm used to the section with the huge organ entry in the third movement being a bit faster than Thomson's slower and more catastrophic approach. Thomson really emphasis the calamity of that moment and his epilogue is easily the bleakest of any I've ever heard. The Thomson has it's faults but I do love it for the way he paces the organ section and epilogue. I suspect Fredman is closer to how Bax actually envisioned it.
@@richardadams2447 yeah i love Honegger's 1st and 3rd so the bleaker the better. i have always felt the intro to the Bax 2nd sounds like underscore to a scene with the Emperor in a Star Wars movie - such wonderfully menacing double reeds!
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Stunning clarity and demonic impact in this recording, to which I should return more often. Bax's finest symphony (and there's not a dud in the bunch)...
Also, makes one wish to locate Myer Fredman's recording of Bax Three, which I think he said was on tape somewhere.
interesting reading of this piece which is one of my absolute favorites!
i'm only familiar with the Chandos recording of this one. there are some great moments here in this version but the tempos in certain sections of the work seemed a bit too rushed. he nailed what i call the 'pot boiler' moment around 23:39 (great ritard into that one), but in the third movement when the organ comes in around 33:33 it feels too rushed and especially at the 34:24 mark where he climbs down from the high point, it's clipping along at double the tempo of the Chandos - sounds like a completely different piece or possibly a different revision of the score. it gets back on track (for me) towards the end and ends beautifully but that climbdown is like twice as fast as the Chandos and it spoils the effect for me overall. but of course that's my subjective opinion and quite possibly the Chandos recording was taking significant liberties with the tempo.
anyway thanks tremendously for sharing this. more versions of this stunning piece are always welcome!
Having been "raised" on this recording, I'm used to the section with the huge organ entry in the third movement being a bit faster than Thomson's slower and more catastrophic approach. Thomson really emphasis the calamity of that moment and his epilogue is easily the bleakest of any I've ever heard. The Thomson has it's faults but I do love it for the way he paces the organ section and epilogue. I suspect Fredman is closer to how Bax actually envisioned it.
@@richardadams2447 yeah i love Honegger's 1st and 3rd so the bleaker the better. i have always felt the intro to the Bax 2nd sounds like underscore to a scene with the Emperor in a Star Wars movie - such wonderfully menacing double reeds!