Orchestral Works [6 CD set]

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FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Works [6 CD set]
Various Soloists / BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox

[ Chandos / 6 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Wednesday 1 August 2012

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The complete orchestral works by Frank Bridge are here released in an attractive six-disc box for the first time, as part of the new Hickox Legacy commemorative series on Chandos Records, leading up to (and continuing beyond) the fifth anniversary, in Nov 2013, of the conductor's untimely death. The box is released on the Chandos Classics label at Mid-Price - 6 CDs for the price of 4.

A couple of orchestral works aside, the repertoire of Frank Bridge was largely ignored until Hickox embarked on the complete cycle of his orchestral music, which revealed to the world what a remarkably varied and imaginative composer he was.

All of Bridge's orchestral music is about something: there are nature-inspired tone poems, such as The Sea and Enter Spring; there are war-inspired works such as Oration and the Overture Rebus; and there are those pieces with a more ambiguous or elusive 'emotional' programme, such as Dance Poem and Phantasm.

"The disc's highlight is a superb performance of the 1930 'Concerto elegiaco' Oration, in which Hickox teams up with the gifted German cellist Alban Gerhardt. High drama and emotional candour are the keynotes to a riveting display. But there's no want of intimacy or compassion in the more contemplative passages, and the result is a trenchant interpretation that does justice to one of the towering masterpieces of British music."
(Gramophone on Vol 4)

The complete orchestral works by Frank Bridge are here released in an attractive six-disc box for the first time, as part of the new Hickox Legacy commemorative series on Chandos Records, leading up to (and continuing beyond) the fifth anniversary, in Nov 2013, of the conductor's untimely death. The box is released on the Chandos Classics label at Mid-Price - 6 CDs for the price of 4.

A couple of orchestral works aside, the repertoire of Frank Bridge was largely ignored until Hickox embarked on the complete cycle of his orchestral music, which revealed to the world what a remarkably varied and imaginative composer he was.

All of Bridge's orchestral music is about something: there are nature-inspired tone poems, such as The Sea and Enter Spring; there are war-inspired works such as Oration and the Overture Rebus; and there are those pieces with a more ambiguous or elusive 'emotional' programme, such as Dance Poem and Phantasm.

Tracks:

Enter Spring
Isabella
Two Poems for Orchestra
Mid of the Night
Dance Rhapsody
Five Entr'actes
from Emile Cammaert's play 'The Two Hunchbacks'
Dance Poem
Norse Legend
The Sea
Coronation March
Phantasm
(Howard Shelley, piano)
Summer
There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
Vignettes de danse
Christmas Dance 'Sir Roger de Coverley'
Oration for Cello and Orchestra
(Alban Gerhardt, cello)
Rebus Overture
A Prayer for Chorus and Orchestra
(BBC National Chorus of Wales)
Lament
Allegro moderato - fragment of a symphony for string orchestra
Suite for Strings, H 93
The Hag, H 14
(Roderick Williams, baritone)
Two Songs of Robert Bridges
(Roderick Williams, baritone))
Two Intermezzi from 'Threads', H 151
(Roderick Williams, baritone)
Two Old English Songs, H 119
arranged for string orchestra
Two Entr'actes: Rosemary, H 68b & Canzonetta, H 169
(Roderick Williams, baritone)
Valse Intermezzo à cordes, H 17
(Roderick Williams, baritone)
Todessehnsucht
(Roderick Williams, baritone)
Christmas Dance 'Sir Roger de Coverley'
Blow out, you bugles, H 132, for tenor & orchestra
(Philip Langridge, tenor)
Adoration, H 57
Where she lies asleep, H 114, for tenor and orchestra
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Love went a-riding
Thy hand in mine, H 124, for tenor and orchestra
Philip Langridge (tenor)
Berceuse, H 9, for soprano and orchestra
(Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano)
Mantle of blue, H 131, for high voice and orchestra
(Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano)
Day after day, H 164, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
(Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano)
Speak to me,my love!, H 164ii, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
Berceuse,H 8
Chant d'espérance,H 18ii
Serenade,H 23
The Pageant of London, H 98, suite for orchestra
A Royal Night of Variety,H 184, epilogue for orchestra