The first post I made here with the music of Sir Arnold Bax, back in 2017, was from this 1972 Lyrita record - the Northern Ballad No.1. In the intervening years other Bax works have appeared, including his seven symphonies.
This time however it's his 1916 tone poem The Garden Of Fand. It's fitting that this record is conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, as he had conducted the first British performance of the work in 1920. The premiere had taken place earlier that year in Chicago under Frederick Stock.
Bax's immersion in Celtic and Irish culture and folklore is well known, and it is this influence that led him to be inspired by the mythical figure of Fand, the daughter of Manannan, lord of the ocean. This piece by Maureen Buja looks at the background to Bax's tone poem.
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