Bax: Viola Sonata / Concert Piece / Legend / Trio in 1 movement

"There is no question that the Viola Sonata ranks as the most significant composition among those collected here, and it is worth the price of the disc on its own"
(MusicWeb Jan 2007)

"These Naxos releases are to be treasured and not just by Bax admirers. With performances such as these one is puzzled why these chamber scores are not heard far more often"
(MusicWeb Feb 2007)

Although Bax is best known for his orchestral music, especially his tone poems and seven romantic symphonies, he also composed a large corpus of highly individual chamber music. Inspired by the legendary violist Lionel Tertis, Bax's romantic Viola Sonata is one of his greatest and most characteristic works, written at the highpoint of his career in the early 1920s. Bax's writing for the viola has a personal and distinctive eloquence also evident in the early Piano Trio and the later Legend.