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Hallé returns with a collection of lesser known English orchestral works which display full range of colour and highly accomplished playing of the award wining ensemble. “[Enter Spring] is a brilliantly extrovert display of his skill as a colourist, sustained by an irresistible rhythmic energy. The Hallé plays it with fabulous finesse, and the orchestra is equally assured in Arnold Bax's quasi-symphonic Spring Fire” The Guardian, 14th April 2011 **** “Elder's grasp of [Enter Spring's] structure is idea, the pacing convincing...The golden glow of the strings and the ripe, thrusting brass are extremely satisfying...There is no finer orchestra with a pedigree in this repertoire than the Hallé” International Record Review, July 2011 “Firstly, the Hallé's stellar playing: it's genuinely hard to imagine how music of this English vintage could be performed better. Not only is everything beautifully idiomatic and clear, there's also strong characterisation in every department, with a particularly vivid response to Bridge's intricate solo woodwind writing.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2011 **** “Not only is Elgar adept at teasing out the myriad details in Bridge's meticulous orchestral canvas, his bracingly cogent conception also manages to stress this music's more daringly progressive, "continental" features without stinting on its gorgeous local colour...a truly cherishable account of a great work to crown a collection that bids fair to be one of my records of the year.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2011 “There couldn't be better advocates for this neglected corner of the repertoire than the Halle and Elder. His conducting is superb in the way it teases out the detail through the overall drive, balancing out the galvanising passion with attention to hummingbird-like flashes of colour. Where there's a danger of galumphing - heavy scoring, supposedly bouncy rhythms - he manages to make the music dance instead.” Classic FM Magazine, August 2011 **** “Brilliant orchestral playing throughout and ripe sound.” Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk, 21st May 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Simply idyllic, this 2-CD set couples a traversal of English seasons (CD1) with idyllic music for cello and orchestra by English composers, all rapturously performed by the Academy and Marriner. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“…this new disc is very competitive, and an excellent introduction to Bridge's orchestral art.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2004 **** | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Bridge: Orchestral Works Volume 1
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| |  | British Music Collection - Frank Bridge
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| |  | English Classics
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| | x.jpg) | Bridge: Orchestral Works, Volumes 1-6The Collector's Edition
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 $24.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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