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425 Min.

2012

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300 g

Album: NEU und EINGESCHWEISST (OVP), SEALED

Bridge: Orchestral Works - The Collector's Edition

Release Date: 07/31/2012
Label: Chandos Catalog #: 10729 Spars Code: DDD
Composer: Frank Bridge
Performer: Howard Shelley, Alban Gerhardt, Roderick Williams, Philip Langridge, ...
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Number of Discs: 6
Recorded in: Stereo
Length: 7 Hours 5 Mins.

Works on This Recording
1. Enter Spring, H 174 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1927; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 18 Minutes 40 Secs.
2. Isabella, symphonic poem for orchestra, H. 78 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1907
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 18 Minutes 2 Secs.
3. Poems after Richard Jefferies, for orchestra, H. 118 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1915
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 12 Minutes 59 Secs.
4. Mid of the Night by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1903; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 26 Minutes 7 Secs.
5. Dance Rhapsody by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Romantic
Written: 1908; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 19 Minutes 23 Secs.
6. The Two Hunchbacks, incidental music, H. 95 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1910
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 11 Minutes 29 Secs.
7. Dance Poem by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Romantic
Written: 1913; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 14 Minutes 1 Secs.
8. Norse Legend, H 60 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1905; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 4 Minutes 52 Secs.
9. The Sea, H 100 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1910-1911; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 21 Minutes 28 Secs.
10. Coronation March by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1901; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 6 Minutes 55 Secs.
11. Summer, tone poem for orchestra, H. 116 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1914-1915; United Kingdom
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 10 Minutes 50 Secs.
12. Phantasm, H 182 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Howard Shelley (Piano)
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1931; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 24 Minutes 27 Secs.
13. There Is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook, for orchestra, H. 173 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1927; United Kingdom
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 11 Minutes 28 Secs.
14. Vignettes de Danse, for orchestra, H. 166 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1938
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 11 Minutes 27 Secs.
15. Sir Roger de Coverley, H 155 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1922; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 4 Minutes 42 Secs.
16. Rebus Overture by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1940; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 10 Minutes 49 Secs.
17. Oration, H 180 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Alban Gerhardt (Cello)
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1930; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 29 Minutes 23 Secs.
18. Allegro Moderato for Strings by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 13 Minutes 28 Secs.
19. Lament, H 117 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1915; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 5 Minutes 24 Secs.
20. A Prayer by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 17 Minutes 56 Secs.
21. Suite for String Orchestra, H 93 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1908; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 20 Minutes 25 Secs.
22. The Hag, H 14 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Roderick Williams ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1902; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 2 Minutes 28 Secs.
23. Songs (2) of Robert Bridges, H 65 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Roderick Williams ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 6 Minutes 36 Secs.
24. Threads (2 Intermezzi), incidental music for piano, H 151 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1921
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 8 Minutes 35 Secs.
25. Old English Songs (2), H 119 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 7 Minutes 33 Secs.
26. Valse-Intermezzo for Strings in E minor, H 17 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1902; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 6 Minutes 53 Secs.
27. Todessehnsucht (Come Sweet Death), for piano, H. 181 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1931
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 3 Minutes 56 Secs.
28. Blow out, you bugles, for tenor & piano (or orchestra), H 132 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Philip Langridge ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1918
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 5 Minutes 40 Secs.
29. Adoration, H 57 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Philip Langridge ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1905; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 2 Minutes 58 Secs.
30. Where she lies asleep, H 113 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Philip Langridge ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 3 Minutes 3 Secs.
31. Love went a-riding, H 114 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Philip Langridge ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1914; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 1 Minutes 42 Secs.
32. Thy hand in mine, H 124 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Philip Langridge ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1917; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 2 Minutes 12 Secs.
33. Berceuse, for soprano & piano (or orchestra), H 9 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Sarah Connolly ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1901
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 5 Minutes 9 Secs.
34. Mantle of blue, H 131 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Sarah Connolly ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1918; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 2 Minutes 49 Secs.
35. Berceuse, for violin (or cello) & piano, H. 8 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Post-Romantic
Written: 1901
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.
36. Serenade for orchestra, H 23 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1903
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 2 Minutes 53 Secs.
37. The Pageant of London, suite for wind orchestra, H 98 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1911
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 14 Minutes 29 Secs.
38. A Royal Night of Variety, epilogue for orchestra, H 184 by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1934
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 1 Minutes 29 Secs.
39. Entr'actes (2) by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1906-1936; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 6 Minutes 1 Secs.
40. Songs (3) of Tagore, H 164: no 1, Day after day by Frank Bridge
Performer: Sarah Connolly ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1922; England
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 4 Minutes 55 Secs.
41. Speak to Me My Love, for voice & piano, H. 164/2 by Frank Bridge
Performer: Sarah Connolly ()
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1924
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 6 Minutes 0 Secs.
42. Pieces, H 18: 2. Chant d'espérance by Frank Bridge
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Period: Modern
Written: 1902
Venue: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England
Length: 3 Minutes 45 Secs.

Notes and Editorial Reviews
Bridge was a genuine minor master, and this boxed set represents a necessary contribution to 20th century British music on disc. The problems with his finding an audience stem from his small output, his avoidance of established forms, and from the fact that his later, modernist, gnarly works will never be popular because they are modernist and gnarly. That's why it is so important that his more conservative, beautifully crafted early pieces make it onto disc. I'm thinking here of the tone poems Isabella and Mid of the Night, the latter with it's gorgeous central English horn solo (sound sample). Really, these pieces are just about as worthwhile and any English music of the early 20th century that isn't by Elgar.

The performances here are, for the most part, very good. Certainly Howard Shelly in Phantasm and cellist Alban Gerhardt in Oration do an excellent job, and the vocal soloists leave little to be desired. Hickox is a variable conductor, but in this series he plays all of this music very effectively. I had reservations about Enter Spring on its initial release on account of a certain carelessness of instrumental balance, aided and abetted by less than impressive sonics (at least for Chandos), and those concerns are still valid. However, taken in the context of the set as a whole this isn't a major issue. Six discs of Bridge still isn't very much, but it's at least twice as much as most of us knew even existed until a few years ago. Chandos calls this “The Collector's Edition,” and so it is.
-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

Review by Blair Sanderson [-]
Presented on six CDs in a sturdy trimline box set, the 2012 Chandos release of Frank Bridge: Orchestral Works (The Collector's Edition) consists of the albums Richard Hickox recorded between 2000 and 2004. Frank Bridge's rhapsodies, symphonic poems, suites, and songs are lovingly handled in this series, and even though his orchestral music is difficult to categorize by composition types, the groupings by disc are quite practical for listeners who wish to focus on similar works. Bridge's music is also stylistically varied, since he was a transitional figure in British music, working from the late Romantic to the modern period, so his music reflects the influences of his teacher, Charles Villiers Stanford, the impressionism of Claude Debussy and Alexander Scriabin, and even a little of the modernism of Arnold Schoenberg. Yet as daunting as sorting through these influences may seem, newcomers to Bridge's works may be assured that his music is highly accessible and enjoyable, often for the brilliance of his orchestration and the richness of his harmonies and counterpoint. Hickox led the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in these performances and was joined by mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, tenor Philip Langridge, baritone Roderick Williams, cellist Alban Gerhardt, pianist Howard Shelley, and the BBC National Chorus of Wales, further showing the variety of his Bridge's output. Chandos' provided exceptional reproduction, so the sound is rich, deep, and vibrant in a delightfully resonant space.

Produktinfo

Obwohl Frank Bridge (1879-1941) einer der bedeutendsten britischen Komponisten in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts war, ist er vielen Musikliebhabern heute allenfalls noch als Lehrer des jungen Benjamin Britten ein Begriff. Seine unbedingt hörenswerten Orchesterwerke sprechen eine spätromantische, nur gelegentlich mit Modernismen angereicherte Tonsprache, die unmittelbar anspricht. Mit der ersten Gesamteinspielung der Orchesterwerke legte Richard Hickox dank hochmotivierter und erstklassiger Mitwirkender (darunter der Cellist Alban Gerhardt) gleich eine Referenzeinspielung vor, die zahlreiche reizvolle Repertoireentdeckungen bereithält.

Pressestimmen

FonoForum 3 / 02: "Hickox' Wiedergaben sind ausgeglichen, niemals leichtfertig, manchmal sogar vollblütig und vermitteln präzise Vorstellungen von den Werken. Der Dirigent hat viel ruhigen Atem für die stilleren Momente übrig, aber auch genügend Kraft für rauschende Tuttipassagen. Das Orchester zeigt sich von seiner brillanten Seite."
FonoForum 10 / 04: "Das walisische Orchester präsentiert sich hier einmal mehr in bestechender Verfassung."

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