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This first disc in the Naxos Bax series offers warmly idiomatic readings of two early symphonic poems, as well as the First Symphony…finely detailed. In the two symphonic poems, more specifically inspired by Irish themes, Lloyd-Jones draws equally warm and sympathetic performances from the Scottish Orchestra, bringing inner clarity to the heaviest scoring. First-rate sound…
David Lloyd-Jones’s cracking performance of Bax’s Symphony No. 1. Lloyd-Jones exercises firm control over this wayward, darkly Romantic music propelling it forward strongly and releasing all its pent-up anger as well as its heartfelt beauty. © 1999 Fanfare Read complete review on Fanfare