Frank Bridge: Dance Rhapsody, 'Rebus' Overture & Poems for Orchestra

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How, one wonders, can such a rapturously tuneful work as Bridge's Dance Rhapsody (1908) be so shamefully neglected: it deserves to be as popular as, say, Ravel's La valse! The intense songfulness... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 26th Mar 2007
Catalogue No: SRCD243
Label: Lyrita
Length: 71 minutes

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Bridge: Dance Rhapsody, H. 84

Work length18:22

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$5.15

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite

Bridge: Dance Poem, H. 111

Work length15:38

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$5.15

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite

Bridge: 2 Poems by Richard Jefferies, H. 118

Work length12:09

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$3.90

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite

No. 1, The Open Air

Track length7:44

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No. 2, The Story of My Heart

Track length4:25

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$1.30

Bridge: Overture "Rebus", H. 191

Work length10:38

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$3.85

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite

Bridge: Allegro moderato for Strings, H. 192

Work length14:47

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$3.85

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite

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2010

How, one wonders, can such a rapturously tuneful work as Bridge's Dance Rhapsody (1908) be so shamefully neglected: it deserves to be as popular as, say, Ravel's La valse! The intense songfulness of the strings' inner voices and the general fervour of the London Philharmonic's playing is thrilling throughout. In the more elusive (yet still alluring) Dance Poem (1913), Braithwaite unflinchingly explores the music's darker corners, finding a tragic vein that Hickox misses, though the newer account moves with admirable grace.
Braithwaite is magically sensitive, too, in the vaguely Delian world of the Two Poems (1916); 'The Open Air' sustains a fragile atmosphere of mystery and 'The Story of my Heart' is simultaneously passionate and mercurial. The extreme contrasts of character contained in the Rebus overture (1940) are crisply delineated – and note how the LPO revel in the passages of glittering, Straussian opulence. As for the Allegro moderato (a loose-limbed movement that Bridge left unfinished at his death in 1941), Hickox's taut, focused reading provides a semblance of symphonic cohesion, while Braithwaite elicits the stronger emotional charge. It's hard to imagine being without either recording.

October 2007

Each time I hear Bridge's Dance Rhapsody (1908) I wonder how such a rapturously tuneful work can be so shamefully neglected. ..the general fervour of the London Philharmonic's playing is thrilling throughout. Braithwaite is magically sensitive, too, in the vaguely Delian world of the Two Poems... The extreme contrasts of character contained in the Rebus overture (1940) are crisply delineated - and note how the LPO revel in the passages of glittering, Straussian opulence.

Frank Bridge: Dance Rhapsody, 'Rebus' Overture & Poems for Orchestra

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