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Jared wrote:^^ my neighbour's turned up last Tuesday... she's loving it!

Glad to hear it.

bombasticDarren wrote:

A very interesting selection, I would like to know how you get on with those, particularly the Bax set of recordings.

I have the complete Bax symphonies in CHANDOS. Throughly enjoyable, both works and performances.
It´s incomprehensible why Bax is not more popular.

Jared wrote:^^ my neighbour's turned up last Tuesday... she's loving it!

I'm still waiting too....

of course I made the cardinal error of using my home address with its weeny letter box so I'll have to collect it anyhow!

bombasticDarren wrote:

I have two cycles of the Bax symphonies so I look forward to see what you think of that set Darren.

Jose Echenique wrote:I have the complete Bax symphonies in CHANDOS. Throughly enjoyable, both works and performances.
It´s incomprehensible why Bax is not more popular.

I certainly agree with your last point there Pepe.

bombasticDarren wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:I have the complete Bax symphonies in CHANDOS. Throughly enjoyable, both works and performances.
It´s incomprehensible why Bax is not more popular.

I certainly agree with your last point there Pepe.

Bax needs a major conductor to take him under his wing.
One of the reasons that helped Sibelius to become so popular is that conductors like Karajan, Barbirolli and Ormandy recorded him often an featured him regularly in his concert programs, other composers just as talented like Stenhammar didn´t have that luck.
Here in Mexico Elgar and Walton are played more or less regularly, Vaughan Williams every now and then, but I can´t remember hearing a single Bax symphony ever!

Jose Echenique wrote:

bombasticDarren wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:I have the complete Bax symphonies in CHANDOS. Throughly enjoyable, both works and performances.
It´s incomprehensible why Bax is not more popular.

I certainly agree with your last point there Pepe.

Bax needs a major conductor to take him under his wing.
One of the reasons that helped Sibelius to become so popular is that conductors like Karajan, Barbirolli and Ormandy recorded him often an featured him regularly in his concert programs, other composers just as talented like Stenhammar didn´t have that luck.

Well I am delighted that Karajan (although, I do not like his Sibeius recordings), Barbirolli, Ormandy and Bernstein (because of his magnificent cycle) did see value in the works of Jean Sibelius. Stenhammar has had limited exposure, that said, this is a very fine set: