Bridge Orchestral Works
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Composer or Director: Frank Bridge
Label: Studio
Magazine Review Date: 7/1989
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 60
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: 769870-2
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (The) Sea |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Charles Groves, Conductor Frank Bridge, Composer Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Summer |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Charles Groves, Conductor Frank Bridge, Composer Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Cherry Ripe |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Charles Groves, Conductor Frank Bridge, Composer Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Enter Spring |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Charles Groves, Conductor Frank Bridge, Composer Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Lament |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Charles Groves, Conductor Frank Bridge, Composer Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra |
Author:
These 1975 recordings of orchestral works by Frank Bridge are, I suspect, treasured favourites of many Gramophone readers. They were made in the heyday of Sir Charles Groves's long spell as conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, when he conducted many English works one would have been lucky to hear elsewhere. They are also accompanied by Anthony Payne's perceptive informative and enthusiastic essay about the music, though I detect a slight reticence about The Sea which I do not share. Yes, the suite is less ''advanced'' than Enter Spring, but what poetic and colourful music it is, written coincidentally in the same year (1910) that saw the first performance of Vaughan Williams's A Sea Symphony both works opening with memorable evocations of ''the sea itself'', one orchestral, the other choral.
The transfers to CD are wholly successful, thanks to the high quality of the originals, made in the excellent acoustic of this orchestra's home, the Philharmonic Hall. Thus, all the picturesque detail in Summer and Enter Spring is audible without its being pushed at us through a selective microphone, and the strings sound pliant and pleasing in the moving short Lament for a child victim of the sinking of the ''Lusitania''.'
The transfers to CD are wholly successful, thanks to the high quality of the originals, made in the excellent acoustic of this orchestra's home, the Philharmonic Hall. Thus, all the picturesque detail in Summer and Enter Spring is audible without its being pushed at us through a selective microphone, and the strings sound pliant and pleasing in the moving short Lament for a child victim of the sinking of the ''Lusitania''.'
Bridge Orchestral Works
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