Browse: Bridge (composer), Trios

Boasting strikingly truthful sound and balance, this is an enjoyable release, and I look forward to hearing more from this talented young ensemble. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2023 More…

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…

Frank Bridge's two piano trios make a natural coupling. The 1907 Phantasie Trio is a prime example of the ruggedly mellifluous chamber style of his early years… The much larger Trio No. 2 (1928-29),... — BBC Music Magazine, March 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…

Bridge’s Phantasie in C minor and Ireland’s Phantasie in A minor, were solidly in the latter form — and also decidedly late Romantic. Still, they are played with a rare richness and depth. — Sunday Times, 3rd August 2014 More…