Sonata No. 3, in G sharp minor played by Reginald Paul (piano)
Sir Arnold Bax is one of the two or three foremost composers for the piano in Britain. He writes with great understanding and effect for the instrument, and this is shown to the full in this Sonata, written in 1925. As a key to Bax's music it is interesting to note that he has confessed that he is ' a brazen romantic-hy which I mean that my music is the expression of emotional states. I have no interest whatever in sound for its own sake or in any modernist 'isms or factions