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Bridge: | Blow out, you bugles, H 132, for tenor & orchestra Adoration, H 57 Where she lies asleep, H 114, for tenor and orchestra Love went a-riding Thy hand in mine, H 124, for tenor and orchestra Berceuse, H 9, for soprano and orchestra Mantle of blue, H 131, for high voice and orchestra Day after day, H 164, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra 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 |
Most items are premiere recordings “Sarah Connolly sings Bridge's orchestral songs beautifully” BBC Music Magazine, Proms Issue 2005 “No fewer than 10 first recordings adorn this, the last instalment in Hickox's valuable Bridge series. Philip Langridge is in ardent voice for the first five tracks, the fourth of which, Love wenta-riding, remains the composer's best-known song. It sounds exhilaratingly new-minted in its sumptuous orchestral garb and is framed here by two companion settings of words by Mary Coleridge, Where she lies asleep and Thy hand in mine.
Particularly striking is the big-scale treatment afforded to Rupert Brooke's Blow out, you bugles, written in 1918 for the tenor Gervase Elwes and whose incorporation of the Last Post movingly anticipates Bridge's own towering Oration for cello and orchestra of a dozen years later.
Sarah Connolly is wonderfully eloquent in the haunting and often inspired 1922-24 Tagore diptych for mezzo and orchestra and also excels in the very early Berceuse (a remarkably assured setting of Dorothy Wordsworth from 1901) and affecting Mantle of blue (1918, and orchestrated 16 years later, to words by the Irish poet Padraic Colum). The programme concludes with five purely instrumental items, the most extended of which is the 1911 suite for wind band, The Pageantof London. Expertly fashioned, it makes for a diverting enough quarter of an hour (the 'Pavane' in the middle movement was destined to reappear 15 years later in Warlock's Capriol Suite). The tuneful Serenade exudes plenty of sepia-tinted charm, as does the wistful little Berceuse (1901).
Throw in some spick and span orchestral playing from the BBC NOW and Chandos's commendably natural engineering, not to mention Paul Hindmarsh's scholarly notes, and you have a job well done.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010  BBC Music Magazine
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Bridge: | 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 - Concerto elegiaco 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 |
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. “Listening to this comprehensive Chandos set, Bridge’s position as a shadowy transitional figure comes into sharper focus, the early Edwardiana yielding to a much more sharply defined mature style...Despite this being a six-disc compilation, there’s little filler. The lighter pieces charm. The performances are consistently inspired, and the recorded sound is refulgent.” The Arts Desk, 29th September 2012 | | | (also available to download from $24.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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