Given before an invited audience
Third concert-Part 2
BBC Orchestra (Section A)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
(First performance in England)
Sir Adrian Boult gave Bax's Symphony No. 7 its world premiere with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra at the World's Fair last year. It was specially written for this occasion and dedicated to ' The People of the United States of America '.
It is safe to say that Bax is the most important of British symphonists, for he has written seven outstanding and in many ways monumental works in this form. The No. 7 in A flat consists of only three instead of the usual four movements.
The first is typical of the composer's symphonic style, with its varied moods, chiefly of a turbulent character. The second is lyrical and romantic and the third is noteworthy for being in variation form.