Regarded as a transitional figure between the confident Victorian Romanticism of Stanford and the circumspect Modernism of Britten, and lacking an identifiable style or movement to make his Janus-like music easier to tag, Frank Bridge has been unjustly overlooked and under-performed for decades. Despite his awkward historical position, Bridge should be appreciated in his own right as an important composer of the fin de siècle, as much of his time as Elgar and Fauré and not too far from matching them in artistry. This disc ...
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Regarded as a transitional figure between the confident Victorian Romanticism of Stanford and the circumspect Modernism of Britten, and lacking an identifiable style or movement to make his Janus-like music easier to tag, Frank Bridge has been unjustly overlooked and under-performed for decades. Despite his awkward historical position, Bridge should be appreciated in his own right as an important composer of the fin de siècle, as much of his time as Elgar and Fauré and not too far from matching them in artistry. This disc provides a necessary reassessment of Bridge's fine chamber music, and the Raphael Ensemble presents three works that span the years 1901-1912, a period of growth and increasing successes for the composer. The varied sonorities and textures displayed in the String Sextet in E flat major, the Lament for two violas, and the String Quintet in E minor reveal Bridge's intimate knowledge of string techniques, gleaned from his experience as a violist in two esteemed quartets. However,...
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