Browse: Chamber, Quintets, Bridge (composer)

The biggest revelation… may be the 1916 Piano Quintet by Adela Maddison (1862? - 1929). French influences (Fauré, Debussy, Florent Schmitt) are patent, but this is overall a captivating work... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2009, 5 out of 5 stars 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…

Bridge was a star student at the RCM, and his E minor String Quintet from 1901, one of four chamber offerings he wrote at that time, reveals a burgeoning talent. Cast in four movements and lasting... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Wass and the Tippett Quartet rise magnificently to [the Bax's] challenges, striking the perfect balance between sheer OTT grandiloquence and intense and genuine feeling...this is a thrilling... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010, 4 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…

The autumnal mood transfers effectively to an all-string ensemble; the playing is both fluent and sensitively shaped...and Carpenter's blend of mellowness and deftness is colourfully applied... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2014 More…

Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough open with a beginners' open-string solo (Ludwig Lebell's Berceuse orientale) and continue with increasingly challenging material that culminates in Gaspar Cassadó's... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2006 More…