The Overture to a Picaresque Comedy is a concert overture composed by Arnold Bax in 1930. It was premiered by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by the dedicatee...

Arnold Bax: Overture to a Picaresque Comedy Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonora Nr 1 Leonora Nr 2 Leonora Nr 3 Fidelio Coriolan Overture Creatures of Prometheus...

Cortège (1925) Romantic Overture (1926) Overture, Elegy and Rondo (1927) Three Pieces (1928) Overture to a Picaresque Comedy (1930) Sinfonietta (1932)...

Rondo (1927) – a lightweight piece, according to Grove. The Overture to a Picaresque Comedy (1930), was for a time one of his most popular works. It was...

shepherds and a satyr. It inspired Bax to compose a piano piece with the same title. Completed in May 1914, it was dedicated to Farjeon. After the First World...

economic sanctions against Japan. The Arnold Bax composition Overture to a Picaresque Comedy was performed for the first time in Manchester. The Jean Renoir-directed...

of T'ung Kuan, with the Oslo Philharmonic Sir Arnold Bax's Overture to a Picaresque Comedy (first recording) Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's Symphony No...

Foreman writes, "A rhythmic figure drives the music until the mood becomes calmer and soon the second subject tune appears which Bax asks to be played 'clear...

overwhelms the island, and the garden of Fand is lost from sight. In a preface to the score states that “The Garden of Fand is the sea” and sets out the...

Tintagel is a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax. It is his best-known work, and was for some years the only piece by which the composer was known to many concert-goers...