Although Bax is best known for his orchestral music, especially his tone poems and seven romantic symphonies, he also composed a large corpus of highly individual chamber music. Inspired by the legendary violist Lionel Tertis, Bax�s romantic Viola Sonata is one of his greatest and most characteristic works, written at the highpoint of his career in the early 1920s. Bax�s writing for the viola has a personal and distinctive eloquence also evident in the early Piano Trio and the later Legend.