Heracleitus

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The Bridge Quartet’s unaffected playing and oaky, wide-grained tone fits [this music] beautifully — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017

Release Date: 10th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: EMRCD036
Label: EM Records
Length: 74 minutes

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Gurney: Ludlow and Teme

Work length18:22

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Charles Daniels, Michael Dussek
Bridge String Quartet

No. 1, When Smoke Stood Up from Ludlow

Track length2:57

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No. 2, Far in a Western Brookland

Track length3:43

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No. 3, 'Tis time, I Think, by Wenlock Town

Track length1:26

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No. 4, Ludlow Fair

Track length2:17

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No. 5, On the Idle Hill of Summer

Track length3:31

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No. 6, When I Was One-and-Twenty

Track length1:27

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No. 7, The Lent Lily

Track length3:01

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Butterworth, G: Bredon Hill and other songs

Work length11:09

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Charles Daniels, Michael Dussek

No. 3, When the Lad for the Longing Sighs

Track length1:41

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No. 1, Bredon Hill

Track length4:47

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No. 4, On the Idle Hill of Summer

Track length3:03

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No. 5, With Rue My Heart Is Laden

Track length1:38

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Butterworth, G: Suite for String Quartette

Work length18:23

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Bridge String Quartet

I. Andante con moto, molto espressivo

Track length4:26

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II. Scherzando - Non allegro

Track length1:22

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III. Allegro molto

Track length4:22

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IV. Molto moderato ed espressivo

Track length3:54

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V. Moderato

Track length4:19

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Warlock: Saudades

Work length3:21

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Charles Daniels
Bridge String Quartet

No. 3, Heraclitus

Track length3:21

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Warlock: Sweet Content

Work length1:18

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Charles Daniels
Bridge String Quartet

Butterworth, G: Love Blows As The Wind Blows

Work length5:25

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Charles Daniels
Bridge String Quartet

No. 3, Fill a Glass with Golden Wine

Track length1:51

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No. 4, On the Way to Kew

Track length3:34

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Gurney: String Quartet In D minor

Work length7:39

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Bridge String Quartet

I. Adagio

Track length7:39

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Gurney: The Cloths of Heaven

Work length3:08

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Charles Daniels, Michael Dussek

Gurney: Severn Meadows

Work length1:53

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Charles Daniels, Michael Dussek

Gurney: By a bierside

Work length4:19

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Charles Daniels, Michael Dussek

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This disc marks the centenary of George Butterworth’s death on the Somme in 1916; his all-too-brief flowering as a composer in the the years immediately before the War produced works which have won an established place in the repertoire, but one of his significant works, the Suite for String Quartet, has been little performed and this is its première British recording. Ivor Gurney was another promising young composer who was a victim of the First World War; he survived, but with his health destroyed, and spent his last years in a mental institution. Both Gurney and Butterworth wrote settings of A.E. Housman’s poems A Shropshire Lad, and this disc includes Gurney’s cycle Ludlow and Teme as well as songsfrom Butterworth’s cycle Bredon Hill . Alongside these are other songs by both composers and by Peter Warlock, picking up the themes of A Shropshire Lad – love, loss and war. Many of Gurney’s compositions were lost or neglected, and are only now being brought to light; the hauntingly beautiful Adagio from his String Quartet in D minor – a world première recording – demonstrates what we have lost.

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February 2017

The Bridge Quartet’s unaffected playing and oaky, wide-grained tone fits [this music] beautifully

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