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Bridge: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4

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Bridge: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4

Running Time: 76:40

CD UPC: 0095115118825

Release Date: April 2004
Originally recorded in 2003

Composer (1879-1941)
Frank Bridge

Solo cello*
Alban Gerhardt

Choral †
BBC National Chorus of Wales

Orchestra
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor
Richard Hickox

Venue
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea

Series Consultant
Paul Hindmarsh

Producer
Brian Couzens

Engineer
Ralph Couzens

Engineer (Assistant)
Matthew Walker

Genre:
Orchestral & Concertos

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Orchestral Works, Vol.4

FRANK BRIDGE

(1879-1941)

Orchestral Works, Volume 4

premiere recording on CD

1.

Rebus (1940)

10:44

Overture for Orchestra

Allegro deciso - Poco moderato - Tempo giusto -

2.

Oration (Concerto elegiaco) (1930)*

29:16

For Solo Cello and Orchestra

Poco lento - Lento e ritmico - Allegro -

3.

Allegro moderato (1940-41)

13:24

Fragment of a symphony for string orchestra

Edited by Anthony Pople

Allegro moderato - Animato e deciso - Moderato -

4.

Lament (1915)

5:21

For String Orchestra

Catherine, aged 9, 'Lusitania' 1915

Adagio, con molto espressione - Poco più adagio

5.

A Prayer (1916-18)†

17:55

for Chorus and Orchestra

Andante moderato - Allegro moderato -

77:00

Solo: Alban Gerhardt cello*

Choral: BBC National Chorus of Wales †

Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor: Richard Hickox

13 & 14 May 2003

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Reviews

Review for Volumes 1 - 6
"Throughout these six collections the BBC National Orchestra of Wales are on top form; they obviously enjoy the music. Hickox is persuasively idiomatic an spontaneous, and the Chandos recording is first class)"

The Pengiun Guide – 1000 Greatest Classical Recordings 2011-12

An exceptionally attractive and generous concert… an essential purchase for Oration alone – and the music itself deserves the widest dissemination.

Gramophone

Richard Hickoxs invaluable survey of Frank Bridges orchestral music for Chandos… [is] one of the most important contributions to British music on disc in the last decade.

The Guardian

'Recorded sound is fully on par with previous volumes, as is Paul Hindmarsh's booklet note, with its excepts from reviews and letters. Those who have been collecting this series can proceed without hesitation''

International Record Review

'Gerhardt plays Oration to the hilt, with virtuosity and passion. Hickox and the Welsh forces do a fine job. This is a fine disc in an important series.'

American Record Guide

'All in all, enthusiastically endorsed.'

Fanfare (USA)

'Oration, his 1930 one-movement concerto, delivered here with tub-thumping passion by soloist Alban Gerhardt, is thrillingly persuasive… Hickox conducts with zeal.'

Classic FM Magazine

'A superb release' *****

The Independent

Hickoxs grand and timely survey of the orchestral music of Frank Bridge has left the best till last: the single movement, 30-minute cello concerto Oration, the composers impassioned, finely wrought response to the horror and pity of the first world war, here spledidly played by the BBCs Welsh orchestra and the German cellist Alban Gerhardt, in a vivid, spacious recording. The disc also includes two striking late pieces, the concert overture Rebus and the Allegro moderato for strings .

Sunday Times

' this is an essential purchase for Oration alone - and the music itself deserves the widest dissmenation.

Gramophone

'Here [in Oration] the intelligence and flexibility of Alban Gerhardt's phrasing and the strong emotional charge of his playing count for a lot. Gerhardt's sensitivity to the subtle gradations of dark timbres that Bridge continually exploits to create an elegiac, phantasmal world of lament make this probably the best yet among the few recordings Oration has ever had.'

BBC Music Magazine

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