1.8.2011 - Frank Bridge [REPEAT]

[Serial_Apologist]

Excellent posting, S-A

That's very kind, Roehr. That I have special feelings for Frank Bridge's music must be pretty obvious! Thanks.

[Mary Chambers]

Excellent posting, S-A

It certainly is! Thank you, S_A. There's plenty for me to consider there.

[EdgeleyRob]

Excellent posting, S-A

WOW what a great post.I love reading some of the stuff you guys put on here it's an education (who needs music books ?)
I do love Bridge's music too.

[Barbirollians]

Resuscitating this old thread I have a limited acquaintance with his music but I do find what I have heard compelling . His Oration for example strikes me as a very fine and intensely moving work . An old HMV Greensleeves record with Charles Groves conducting I still treasure for its The Sea and Enter Spring .

Any other recommended works and recordings ?

[Sir Velo]

There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook is a haunting tone poem of nine minutes duration. A poignant oboe theme woven to a backdrop of harp glissandi cloaks the plunge of the stricken maiden in starkly memorable garb. A sombre cello solo section leads a ghostly cortege, before the piece returns to silence.

Bournemouth Sinfonietta/ Norman del Mar on Chandos.

[Barbirollians]

There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook is a haunting tone poem of nine minutes duration. A poignant oboe theme woven to a backdrop of harp glissandi cloaks the plunge of the stricken maiden in starkly memorable garb. A sombre cello solo section leads a ghostly cortege, before the piece returns to silence. A nice depiction of the human collateral of others' egoistical drivings.

Bournemouth Sinfonietta/ Norman del Mar on Chandos.

Thanks Sir Velo with del Mar conducting it sounds well worth investigating.

[Serial_Apologist]

There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook is a haunting tone poem of nine minutes duration. A poignant oboe theme woven to a backdrop of harp glissandi cloaks the plunge of the stricken maiden in starkly memorable garb. A sombre cello solo section leads a ghostly cortege, before the piece returns to silence. A nice depiction of the human collateral of others' egoistical drivings.

Whereas to me it always conjures up the flatlands of the Thames estuary on a dull, windless November day.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Resuscitating this old thread I have a limited acquaintance with his music but I do find what I have heard compelling . His Oration for example strikes me as a very fine and intensely moving work . An old HMV Greensleeves record with Charles Groves conducting I still treasure for its The Sea and Enter Spring .

Any other recommended works and recordings ?

This http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bridge-Orche...=bridge+hickox will give you all Bridge's orchestral, concertante and vocal/orchestral music, or very near it. Something of a bargain, and - hurrah! - it seems to reproduce all the notes and sung texts from the single-disc issues.