SACDs - Bridge

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In The Shadow of War

In The Shadow of War


Bloch, E:

Schelomo

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hugh Wolff

Bridge:

Oration - Concerto elegiaco for cello and orchestra

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hugh Wolff

Oration - Concerto elegiaco for cello and orchestra

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hugh Wolff

Hough:

The Loneliest Wilderness, elegy for cello and orchestra

Tapiola Sinfonietta, Gábor Takács-Nagy


This programme is well conceived and draws some truly moving playing. The coda to Bridge’s Oration makes a serious challenge for the title of ‘most beautiful ending to a cello concerto’ Isserlis.

Schelomo is an extraordinary work where Bloch seems to have created a new musical language inspired by Jewish music dating back thousands of years. Often mistaken for film music, Schelomo’s immediacy and descriptiveness has influenced many film composers.

Isserlis plays the ‘Marquis de Corberon’ Stradivarius of 1726, formerly owned by Zara Nelsova who was the first to record Bloch’s Schelomo with the composer conducting.

“A mood of poignant intensity characterises the three works here, played by Steven Isserlis with two different orchestras...Some ridiculed [Schelomo] as suitable only for a Hollywood epic but Isserlis conveys its simple, urgent message.” The Observer, 7th April 2013

“Isserlis's spellbinding advocacy of Bridge's raptly compassionate masterpiece in particular has acquired an extra richness of experience and plangent intensity...both performances [the Hough and the Bloch] really are tremendously compelling in their articulate composure, nourishing intelligence and clear-sighted purpose.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2013

“this profoundly engaging reading [of the Bridge] sets a new standard. [in Schelomo] nothing is forced or overdone, no rhetoric or posturing gets in the way of the work's own soulful expression...What he has achieved in this beautifully balanced recording with Hugh Wolff is a breathtaking new fluency and freedom.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2013 *****

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - May 2013

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BIS - BIS1992

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Organ works by Dupré, Swayne, Jongen & Bridge

Organ works by Dupré, Swayne, Jongen & Bridge


Bridge:

Adagio in E major (No 2 of Three Pieces, H63)

Dupré:

Deuxième Symphonie, Op. 26

Deux Esquisses pour orgue, Op. 41

Jongen:

Sonata Eroïca Op. 94

Swayne:

Riff-Raff for organ, Op. 34


Tobias Frank (organ)

This disc presents a contrast of organ works that demonstrate considerable stylistic differences despite being written within a relatively short period of time. Joseph Jongen and Frank Bridge composed in a largely traditional style unlike their contemporaries at the time, namely Schönberg, Berg and Boulez, who explored more innovative music. Marcel Dupré and Giles Swayne, however, quickly abandoned the conventional musical styles of their home countries and developed new musical aesthetics which encompass innovative ideas and concepts.

The SACD sound quality makes organ sound all the more resonant.

“Frank plays this interesting programme with a strong sense of flair. Although the booklet's documentation is only adequate, the recorded sound is spectacularly good.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2009

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Profil Medien - PH09011

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Seascapes

Seascapes


Bridge:

The Sea

Debussy:

La Mer

Glazunov:

More (The Sea), Op. 28

Zhou Long:

The Deep, Deep Sea for alto flute/piccolo, timpani, harp and strings

Zhou Long’s The Deep, Deep Sea has as its title a quotation from Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, and was written for flautist Sharon Bezaly who performs it here.


“As pure sound, this is the best La mer that I have encountered on record. …these are also revelatory performances. Lan Shui and his orchestra… turn in an unequivocally world-class performance of Debussy's masterpiece. Revelatory is again the only way of describing Shui's thrilling espousal of Frank Bridge's The Sea, composed 1910-11, here sounding every inch an unheralded masterpiece. Beijing-born Zhou Long's The Deep, Deep Sea, by contrast, is an altogether more delicate, exotic creation graced by Sharon Bezaly's flute playing. An outstandingly successful issue.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2007 *****

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Bridge: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

Bridge: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3


Bridge:

Phantasm

Summer

Coronation March

Vignettes de danse

There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook

Christmas Dance 'Sir Roger de Coverley'


“The performances under Hickox are as authoritative as ever.” The Guardian

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Chandos Bridge Orchestral Works - CHSA5018

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