Pre-Owned Bax: Music for Two Pianos (CD 0747313041374) by Ashley Wass (piano), Martin Roscoe (piano)

0747313041374. Pre-owned: Good condition. CD. Ashley Wass continues his recordings of Arnold Bax's piano music for Naxos with this volume of music for two pianos made with Martin Roscoe. This is only the second recording made of these particular works, and with Wass' and Roscoe's excellent performance, it's hard not to talk about the worthiness of the music. Some may think of it as imitative of Debussy and Ravel, but really, it is more in the vein of their style rather than merely copying it. Great washes of color and sound create pictures of nature, the sea, Celtic legends -- all themes found in much of his writing, as they are in Debussy. Bax wrote most of his two piano works for the husband and wife team Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson in the 1920s and '30s. A Festival Overture, which opens the disc, is the only work generally known in an orchestral version, but Bax originally wrote the jolly work with some quirky harmonies for two pianos. The sonata, usually a more structured, formal type of work, is just as picturesque as any of the other...