Orchestral Works Volume 5 (Includes Suite for Strings & Two Songs of Robert Bridges)
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FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Works Volume 5 (Includes Suite for Strings & Two Songs of Robert Bridges)
Roderick Williams, baritone BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox, conductor
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 5 October 2004
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"Charming miniatures performed with great refinement ... enchants from beginning to end. Strongly recommended"
- MusicWeb Oct 2004
"Charming miniatures performed with great refinement ... enchants from beginning to end. Strongly recommended"
- MusicWeb Oct 2004
'But there is still on more substntial gem, the Suite for Strings - a work that deserves to be ranked alongside the better-known British classics for string orchestra (Elgar, Vaughan Williams , Britten and Tippett.)'
- BBC Music Magazine
'Another valuable survey, then, glowingly engineered by Ralph Couzens and expertly annotated by Paul Hindmarsh.'
- Gramophone
The name Frank Bridge is familiar to most music students only because of his famous pupil, Benjamin Britten, but his graceful, charming and often wistful music, which includes symphonic poems and a large body of chamber works, has remained largely unheard both in the concert hall and on disc. Richard Hickox's series is the first comprehensive survey of works by this quintessentially English composer. It has brought many new works by Bridge to the public's attention for the first time and is already considered first choice for this repertoire.
Tracks:
Suite for Strings, H 93 (1909-10)
The Hag, H 14 (1902) premiere recording
Song for Baritone and Orchestra
Two Songs of Robert Bridges (1905-06) premiere recording
for Baritone and Orchestra
Two Intermezzi from 'Threads', H 151 (1921/1938)
Two Old English Songs, H 119 (1916)
Arranged for String Orchestra
Two Entr'actes I Rosemary, H 68b II Canzonetta, H 169 (1906, 1926)
Valse Intermezzo à cordes, H 17 (1902) premiere recording
No. 2 from Four Pieces for String Orchestra assembled
and arranged by Paul Hindmarsh
Todessehnsucht (1932/1936)
Arrangement for string orchestra of Komm, süßer Tod, BWV 478, from Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesang-Buch, by Johann Sebastian Bach
Sir Roger de Coverley (A Christmas Dance), H 155 (1922/1939)
for Strings
