Browse: Bridge (composer), String Quartets

Frank Bridge's exploratory late chamber works can sound reticent, elusive in performance. Not here: fire, drama and intense fantasy abound, but there's no lack of refined control or shaping... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Even by the high standards of previous Maggini/ Naxos offerings, this is an exceptionally fine disc.
If you don't know Frank Bridge's First Quartet of 1906, its ardour and melodic fecundity compel... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The emotions come across strongly, though without sacrificing either Bridge's subtlety or his intellectual strength. Bridge remains an introvert, but it's still extraordinary how much of his... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Eloquent and sensitive performances of some of the finest British chamber works of our century — BBC Music Magazine More…

This is an absolutely splendid disc, with powerful, committed performances that illuminate Frank Bridge's mastery of chamber music in two major scores, early and late, as well as the famous Idylls... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

…what makes this Somm disc especially valuable is the spellbinding account of the Rhapsody Trio for two violins and viola, perhaps the most elusive and fantastic of Bridge's late chamber scores,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…