(1921-2)
' I think I may claim in all modesty that I was the first to translate the hidden Ireland into musical terms.'
Thus, in a 1949 broadcast. Bax acknowledged the programmatic nature of his earlier works. By the time of the disturbed First Symphony, howe-ver, it was an approach which he was emphatically to reject. The programme also contains another post-war work - Morning Song (1947) -and an excerpt from Bax's broadcast talk: records