Frank Bridge

E'en as a Lovely Flower

Although Bridge wrote 39 of his 60 songs between 1901 and 1908, when still in his twenties, only a handful were published at the time. This anthology contains five of these early songs, including Tear...

Frank Bridge's 'Three Songs for Medium Voice, Viola and Piano' is the second volume in a 30-volume series by The Frank Bridge Trust in association with Thames Publishing, celebrating the works of Fran...

The individual emotional quality and organic structure of Oration place it high in Bridge's output and indeed in British music of the first half of this century. . .a profound work. . .Music and Lette...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2(II=ca).2.2 - 4231 - timp - perc(1): cyms - strings

Instrumentation: 2.2(II=ca).2.2 - 2230 - timp(=tgl) - harp - strings

Isabella' is Bridge's second symphonic poem, and was completed on January 1907, and was the first orchestral work he chose to acknowledge. It is the only one of Bridge's orchestral work to follow a de...

Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4.2.2 crt.3.1 - timp -perc(2/3): tamb/gong/tgl/SD/BD+cym - harp - strings

This series, which aims to cover the whole repertoire of English song, is designed not merely as a practical guide for singers and teachers but also to be of use to the ever-increasing number of stude...

Bridge wrote his Suite for Strings in 1909-10 and it was published by Goodwin and Tabb in 1920. Composer and publisher had high hopes that the suite would be a popular success, and a Piano-duet versio...

Two Old English Songs arranged for Piano 4-hands.

Adapted by Paul Hindmarsh for one piano, four hands from the ballet In The Shop. The style of the music lies somewhere between Bridge's early salon style and his more piquant and colourful later works...