Bax Arnold. Winter Waters for pianoforte

London: J.&W. Chester, 1918. — 11 p.Tragic landscape.
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music.
Winter Waters was written in 1915, and is a brooding, dark piece. It's a transcription of a movement in some incidental music he wrote for the play The Truth about Russian Dancers. His writing is especially thick; the left hand part that moves up and down in half steps that adds to that thickness, and the right hand, tonally speaking hints towards modernism. There's an ominous air about this interestingly dark work.