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Bridge: Orchestral Works, Volumes 1-6

The Collector's Edition

Howard Shelley (piano), Alban Gerhardt (cello), Roderick Williams (baritone), Philip Langridge (tenor), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Richard Hickox

Listening to this comprehensive Chandos set, Bridge’s position as a shadowy transitional figure comes into sharper focus, the early Edwardiana yielding to a much more sharply defined mature style...Despite... — The Arts Desk, 29th September 2012 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jul 2012
Catalogue No: CHAN10729(6)X
Label: Chandos
Series: Bridge Orchestral Works, The Hickox Legacy
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

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Boult conducts Ireland and Bridge

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

It's hard to imagine more persuasive advocacy for Ireland's Concertino pastorale, The Holy Boy and the Minuet and Elegy from A Downland Suite, with Boult drawing a radiant response from the LPO... — Gramophone Magazine, Janurary 2008 More…

Release Date: 30th Apr 2007
Catalogue No: SRCD242
Label: Lyrita
Length: 69 minutes

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…some of the Sonata's radical harmonic language is present in the elusive left-hand Improvisations written in 1918 for Douglas Fox, who had lost his right arm in the trenches. Wass's deeply... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, More…

Release Date: 30th Apr 2007
Catalogue No: 8557921
Label: Naxos
Length: 67 minutes

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English String Festival

Capella Istropolitana, Adrian Leaper

The playing is strongly felt. — Penguin Guide More…

Catalogue No: 8550331
Label: Naxos
Length: 73 minutes

Release Date: 12th Jan 2000
Catalogue No: 8550331
Label: Naxos
Length: 73 minutes

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Bridge: Orchestral Works Volume 4

Alban Gerhardt (cello)

BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, Richard Hickox

Here's probably the most appealing and varied instalment in Richard Hickox's Frank Bridge series for Chandos. The disc's highlight is a superb performance of the 1930 'Concerto elegiaco' Oration,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 5th Apr 2004
Catalogue No: CHAN10188
Label: Chandos
Series: Bridge Orchestral Works
Length: 77 minutes

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Finzi, Bridge & Parry: Works for Strings

Martin Jones (piano)

English String Orchestra, William Boughton

Nimbus's warm-toned, typically resonant sonics capture everything with merciless fidelity ... Sturdy, straight-down-the-line music-making from Boughton and his assembled colleagues. No complaints,... — Gramophone Magazine More…