Frank Bridge

Bridge wrote some 50 songs, spread fairly evenly over a period of 24 years, from 1901 to 1925. They show a steady and illuminating development in his composing craft and imaginative powers. This volum...

Enter Spring showed Bridge, like his contemporaries, Respighi and Szymanowski, to be a master of sensuous chromaticism which, judging from its enthusiastic reception, provides welcome relief from the...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.2.2 – 4231 – timp – perc(2/3): SD/BD+cym/susp.cym/tgl/gong – harp – cel – strings Completed on 20th May 1908, Dance Rhapsody consists of three contrasting dance episodes...

Completed on 20th May 1908, Dance Rhapsody consists of three contrasting dance episodes, linked by related short transitions and framed by an arresting, extrovert Allegro energico. Imstrumentation: 3(...

Frank Bridge composer thirty-five of his fifty-six songs with piano accompaniment betweeen 1901 and 1908. The early songs are the most conservative portion of Bridge's output, certainly in his choice...