Frank Bridge

Frank Bridge's 1904 Sonata for Violin and Piano. A youthful and admirable first attempt at Sonata compostion, this piece is not as masterful as his 1932 work but nevertheless displays his skilled work...

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...

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...

Selected Music For Solo Piano is a vast collection of pieces by English composer and violinist Frank Bridge. Bridge is mostly remembered for privately tutoring Benjamin Britten, who later championed h...