Bridge / Wass: Piano Music
Bridge / Wass: Piano Music
Format: CD
Wanting to order from us over the holiday period but need some more information. We are here to help! Please see our Christmas Shipping page for more information.
On average, orders containing available-to-ship items are processed and dispatched within 1-2 business days, although this is not guaranteed.
Orders containing preorder items will ship as 1 fulfillment once all items in the order are available to ship.
Please note, Tower Records Merchandise and Exclusives are dispatched separately. On average, these items take 3-4 business days to dispatch, although this is not guaranteed.
The estimated shipping times that are displayed at checkout are from the point of dispatch.
See our shipping policy for more information.
We have a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item(s) to make a return.
For orders created between November 20th 2024 and December 31st 2024, we have extended our normal return period. For orders made between this period, customers have up to 60 days from the receipt of goods to return an item. Please see our Christmas Returns page for more information.
To be eligible for a return of an unwanted item, your item must be in the same condition that you received it and in its original packaging.
In the unfortunate situation that a product is damaged/faulty/incorrect, let us know and we will endeavor to correct any issue as soon as possible.
Please see our refund policy for more information.
Artist: Bridge / Wass
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313284221
Genre: Classical
Frank Bridge studied violin and composition at the Royal College of Music where he was a pupil of Stanford from 1899 to 1903. Apart from composition his career embraced performance (he was the violist of several quartets, most notably the English String Quartet), conducting (he frequently deputized for Sir Henry Wood), and teaching, Benjamin Britten being his most renowned pupil. No other British composer of the first half of the twentieth century reveals such a stylistic journey in his music. His early works, like the First String Quartet (1906), the Phantasy Piano Trio (1907), and the orchestral suite The Sea (1910-11), follow in the late-Romantic tradition bearing a kinship with Brahms and Fauré; subsequently, in the orchestral tone poem Summer (1914), Bridge comes close to the orbit of Delius. After the First World War, however, his music became intense and chromatic as in the Scriabinesque Piano Sonata (1921-4). The radical language of the sonata was pursued in his chamber works of the 1920s, so that in the Third String Quartet (1926) Bridge rubs shoulders with the early works of the Second Viennese School. Also to this decade belong two orchestral masterpieces, Enter Spring (1927), and Oration for cello and orchestra (1930). These and later works, for instance, Phantasm for piano and orchestra (1931), and the overture Rebus (1940) languished, finding little favor either with public or critics, and despite Britten's advocacy, it was not until the 1970s that Bridge's remarkable legacy began to receive the attention it deserved. Composed in 1924 during the months immediately after the completion of the Piano Sonata, the two pieces comprising In Autumn are major achievements amongst Bridge's piano music. They clearly are written in the wake of the harmonic world Bridge had established for himself in the sonata: the mood of Retrospect is inward-looking, with bleak, lean textures and an extended somber chromatic melody which gradually rises inexorably to two dissonant climaxes. In a letter to his patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Bridge commented that he was particularly pleased with the piece. It's faster companion, Through the Eaves, is a fleeting vision shot through with rustlings and furtive movements.
Tracks:
1.1 The Princess: Allegretto Con Moto
1.2 The Ogre: Allegro Deciso
1.3 The Spell: Adagio E Sostenuto
1.4 The Prince: Allegro Giocoso
1.5 Dusk: Molto Moderato
1.6 The Dew Fairy: Allegretto Moderato E Rubato
1.7 The Midnight Tide: Molto Lento
1.8 Allegretto Con Moto
1.9 Tempo Di Valse
1.10 Allegretto Ben Moderato
1.11 Heart's Ease: Andante Tranquillo-Lento
1.12 Dainty Rogue: Molto Allegro E Vivo
1.13 The Hedgerow: Allegretto Moderato
1.14 Columbine: Poco Lento-Tempo Di Valse
1.15 Minuet: Tempo Di Minuetto
1.16 Romance: Andante Molto Moderato
1.17 Retrospect: Adagio Ma Non Troppo
1.18 Through the Eaves: Allegro Moderato E Rubato
1.19 Solitude: Poco Adagio E Molto Espressivo
1.20 Ecstasy: Lento E Sostenuto-Allegro Con Moto
1.21 Sunset: Adagio E Sostenuto
