2014年9月23日 · It is entirely characteristic of Bax that Harriet Cohen didn’t learn of Mary Gleaves’ existence for twenty years. Bax would return from Morar to Harriet and pick up …

In the mid-1920s, while his affair with Cohen continued, Bax met the twenty-three-year-old Mary Gleaves, and for more than two decades he maintained relationships with both women. His …

Bax orchestrated most of the symphonies during his annual wintering with his lover Mary Gleaves at Morar. After No. 7 the only work of remarkable consequence was the Violin Concerto, …

At this time, Bax found a new love in Mary Gleaves, and she accompanied him to Scotland. In the Morar period, which lasts until the outbreak of World War II, Bax rediscovered his interest for …

2019年8月18日 · Mary Gleaves and Arnold Bax c1951. Picture if you can that spring day in 1948 at Harriet’s London flat and Arnold finally telling Harriet that he would not be marrying her and …

2014年9月23日 · David Lloyd-Jones’ acclaimed Bax symphonies cycle on super budget Naxos is now almost complete with just the Seventh remaining to be released. Naxos’s competitive …

Bax was in the first flush of his relationship with Mary Gleaves at the time of its conception, a fact which casts strange light on the second movement's inclusion of a quotation from A Romance, …

It is more than twenty years since Lewis Foreman’s pioneering study of Arnold Bax –‘a composer and his times’ was published. Though he had spent some fifteen years in research before this …

One of the main motivating forces at the root of Bax’s music, particularly in Symphonies Three to Five (composed between 1929 and ‘39) is the spectacular Western seaboard. The rugged but …

Despite this and other affairs, the real love of his life was the relatively obscure but charming and devoted Mary Gleaves, whom he met in 1926. Not that he lived permanently with her, or for …