Mediterranean

Composer: BAX, Sir Arnold
  • Mediterranean is a 1922 orchestral work, arranged from Bax’s 1920 piano piece of the same name.1
  • Bax composed this piece after he took a Mediterranean vacation with his brother Clifford.2
  • This piece is dedicated to Gustav Holst.3
  • Listen for: the sound of a “slow, Spanish-style waltz” (according to musicologist and composer Michael Hurd)4

Sources

  1. Lewis Foreman, “Bax, Sir Arnold,” Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press, 2001), accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000002380.
  2. David Parlett., ed., “Baxworks: 1920-1924,” Baxworks: Music by Sir Arnold Bax, Complete Listing by David & Graham Parlett, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.davpar.eu/bax/bax2024.html.
  3. Ibid.
  4. Michael Hurd, liner notes to English Miniatures, Richard Hickox, Northern Sinfonia of England, EMI 499332, CD, 1991.

Cut IDs

40949, 41723