| …beautifully sculptured […] imaginative and beautiful setting … distinctive and eminently worth the attention of genuine music-lovers and aspiring concert singers. | ||
| —Robert Matthew-Walker, Musical Opinion (July–August 2012 p52) |
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| Colin Scott-Sutherland is to be well and truly congratulated on his achievement in so expertly marshalling and editing all the material … the paper used in this hard-back volume is of high quality, with many photographs, drawings, and other reproductions. There is also a striking front cover design (after Rossetti) in gold embossed on a cream ground, which was inspired by the 1911 deluxe edition of Clifford Bax’s Poems Dramatic and Lyrical. This is a fascinating book, and nobody with a real interest in British music or in the byways of English poetry should be without it … lavish publication… [Graham Parlett is author of A Catalogue of the Works of Sir Arnold Bax (OUP)] | ||
| —Graham Parlett, The Sir Arnold Bax Website |
| Detail has been lavished on the book’s presentation. The cover design is appropriately from Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Two young Scottish pianists have recently been playing Bax: Joseph Long and Jeremy Limb, who is a family descendant of Bax. Names to remember. So, after moribund years, Bax is reconsidered. It may herald a renaissance that can only enrich what sometimes seems the recent dry period in British piano music. | ||
| —Ronald Stevenson, International Piano Quarterly |
September 2001 saw the publication of the collected poems of Dermot O’Byrne (Sir Arnold Bax’s literary pseudonym) in the form of a substantial volume entitled IDEALA. This fascinating book, containing poems, love letters, music and other writings by those who knew him intimately, is edited and introduced by Bax’s first biographer, Colin Scott-Sutherland (Arnold Bax, Dent, 1973).
This sumptuous book contains 320 pages with nearly 90 illustrations, including an edition of The Princess’s Rose Garden, and is hard-bound and gold-blocked. Reviews have been numerous and very positive; the quotations shown at the head of this page are chosen at random, so click the Reload button to see others.
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| Author | Title | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dermot O’Byrne | IDEALA Love Letters and Poems of Arnold Bax ISBN 0-9535125-3-3 | |||
| # | Author(s) | Chapter | ||
| 1 | Dermot O’Byrne Edited by Colin Scott-Sutherland | Acknowledgments | ||
| 2 | Introduction | |||
| 3 | Poems in Red Notebook | |||
| 4 | First (typed) Collection | |||
| 5 | Letters to Isobel Hodgson | |||
| 6 | ‘Seafoam and Firelight’ | |||
| 7 | Letters to Mary Field | |||
| 8 | Second (typed) Collection | |||
| 9 | Harriet Cohen and ‘The Princess’s Rose Garden’ | |||
| 10 | Elsa Sobrino | |||
| 11 | ‘Verses’ – Third (typed) Collection | |||
| 12 | ‘Love Poems of a Musician’ | |||
| 13 | ‘A Dublin Ballad and Other Poems’ | |||
| 14 | Memoir ‘The Two Brothers’ (Francis Colmer) | |||
| 15 | Appendices 1–8 | |||
| 16 | Index of Poems | |||
| 17 | General Index | |||
Catalogue code: FM091 • Published: September 2001
Entry last updated: 21st July 2010