Bridge: Complete Songs

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FRANK BRIDGE
Bridge: Complete Songs
Janice Watson (soprano), Louise Winter (mezzo soprano), Jamie MacDougal (tenor), Gerald Finley (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)

[ Hyperion / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 10 August 2014

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This important release brings together all forty-five of the songs composed by Frank Bridge. The programme is presented generally along chronological lines, and although the songs were written over two decades there is a remarkable consistency of style. A good number of the texts will be familiar from the songs of, say, Quilter or Finzi, but many more show Bridge's enthusiasm for unearthing rather less well-known literary subject matter.

"Prepared and performed with the care and conviction for which Hyperion is famous. Those who simply love vocal recitals will find plenty of enjoyment in these well-documented discs, as well as a further revelation of the wealth of 'English Renaissance' contributions to art song. Distinguished performances of little-known but substantial, and often impressive, repertoire" Classic CD

"Another superb collection of songs" Financial Times

"These two CDs, finely recorded and thoughtfully presented, are a most timely and valuable addition to the catalogue" Gramophone Magazine

"This fine collection of settings by poets as diverse as Herrick, Heine and Tagore is full of surprises and beautifully performed by all, especially pianist Roger Vignoles" The Observer

Tracks:

Disc 1
1 Sonnet: When Most I Wink (Shakespeare) 8 April 1901 2:37
2 If I Could Choose (Ashe) 1902 1:59
3 The Primrose (Herrick) 1902 1:50
4 A Dirge (Shelley) April 1903 1:03
5 The Devon Maid (Keats) July 1903 1:24
6 Dawn & Evening (Heine, trs C.A.) 1903 1:56
7 Where'er My Bitter Teardrops Fall (Heine, trs Wallis) August 1903 1:34
8 E'en As A Lovely Flower (Heine, trs Kroeker) August 1903 3:09
9 Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (Shakespear) 1903 1:47
10 Go Not, Happy Day (Tennyson) 1903 1:07
11 Night Lies On The Silent Highways (Heine, trs Kroeker) 12 Jan 1904 2:36
12 A Dead Violet (Shelley) 12 march 1904 2:56
13 Cradle Song (Tennyson, From Sea Dreams) 1904 1:48
14 Lean Close Thy Cheek (Heine, trs Johnson) 10 April 1905 2:04
15 Fair Daffodils (Herrick) 1905 2:26
16 Adoration (Keats) November 1905 2:42
17 So Perverse (Bridges) 1905 1:24
18 Tears, Idle Tears (Tennyson) 1905 5:25
19 The Violets Blue (Heine, trs Thomson) September 1906 1:46
20 Come To Me In My Dreams (Arnold) November 1906 3:31
21 My Pent-Up Tears Oppress My Brain (Arnold) 27 December 1907 2:25
22 Music, When Soft Voices Die (Shelley) November 1906/January 1907 2:17
23 Far, Far From Each Other (Arnold) November 1906 3:20
24 Where Is It That Our Soul Doth Go? (Heine, trs Kroeker) December 1906 3:40

Disc 2
1 All Things That We Clasp and Cherish (Heine, trs Lazarus) 21 January 1907 1:32
2 Love Is a Rose (Durand) 31 December 1907 1:53
3 Dear, When I Look Into Thine Eyes (Heine, Trs Strettell) 27 June 1908 2:12
4 Isobel (Goddard-Fenwick) September 1912 2:07
5 O That It Were So! (Landor) c1912 2:17
6 Strew No More Red Roses (Arnold) 10 April 1913 2:48
7 Where She Lies Asleep (Coleridge) April 1914 3:07
8 Love Went A-Riding (Coleridge) 5 May1914 1:42
9 Thy Hand in Mine (Coleridge) 10 February 1917 2:20
10 So Early in the Morning, O:- (Stephens) February 1918 2:22
11 Mantle of Blue (Colum) March 1918 1:48
12 The Last Invocation 9Shitman) 23 September 1918 2:47
13 When You Are Old and Gray (Yeats) 25 January 1919 3:25
14 Into Her Keeping (Lowry) 4 May 1919 2:02
15 What Shall I Your True Love Tell? (Thompson) 31 May 1919 3:27
16 'Tis But A Week (Gould) 1919 1:50
17 Day After Day (Tagore) January 1922 3:54
18 Speak To Me, My Love! (Tagore) October 1924 4:55
19 Dweller In My Deathless Dreams (Tagore) June 1925 4:37
20 Goldenhair (Joyce) 29 October 1925 1:34
21 Journey's End (Wolfe) November 1925 3:53