Full Score. Par BRIDGE FRANK. Frank Bridge’s evocative Dance Poem for orchestra (1913) is a crucial work in his output. As well as the arresting themes and vivid orchestral colours that typify this fascinating composer’s early work, we also find a more concentrated logic of symphonic development. Each of the six sections of this 15-minute symphonic waltz conveys the emotions expressed in a dancer’s movements. The mosaic of flexible motivic shapes, supported by an increased richness of harmonic vocabulary and the greater refinement of orchestral gesture, recall Debussy’s Jeux and Ravel’s La Valse. Frank Bridge’s evocative Dance Poem for orchestra (1913) is a crucial work in his output. As well as the arresting themes and vivid orchestral colours that typify this fascinating composer’s early work, we also find a more concentrated logic of symphonic development. Each of the six sections of this 15-minute symphonic waltz conveys the emotions expressed in a dancer’s movements. The mosaic of flexible motivic shapes, supported by an increased richness of harmonic vocabulary and the greater refinement of orchestral gesture, recall Debussy’s Jeux and Ravel’s La Valse. / Musique contemporaine / Répertoire / Conducteur

Bridge’s early works those written before the first World War were more late Romantic in style warmly expansive than his mature works. The Adagio is a four-Voice fugue of poetic expressiveness that makes full use of the instrument’s tonal resources.British composer Frank Bridge was active in the early decades of the 20th century and was a highly respected conductor violist and teacher his sole composition student having been Benjamin Britten. Britten honoured his former teacher in his work Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge based on a theme from one of Bridge’s pieces for String quartet.

Par BRIDGE FRANK. Frank Bridge was one of the finest English composers of the first half of the 20th century. The Pageant of London is his only work for wind band, comprising of two marches, one scored from Bridge’s best known organ piece and including the chimes ofBig Ben, plus three short renaissance pastiche items, one arranged from Playford (later used by Peter Warlock in Capriol Suite). The music is tuneful, approachable and, in the words of wind band ‘legend’ Timothy Reynish makes a fine alternative toHolst’s two suites, which were composed around the same time. Reynish has introduced this work to concert bands right across the world. It has been performed in USA and the Far East, recorded by the celebrated Kosei Wind Orchestra of Japan and alsoby the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Chandos edition of Bridge Orchestral Music./ Répertoire / Orchestre D'Harmonie

A fabulous Piano composition by Frank Bridge edited and completed by Paul Hindmarsh from the uncatalogued pages of sketches in the Frank Bridge Collection at London's Royal College of Music. This is a somewhat challenging suite especially when compared to other works of Bridge.

Par BRIDGE FRANK. Frank Bridge's rhapsody Enter Spring demonstrates, like his contemporaries, Respighi and Szymanowski, to be a master of sensuous chromaticism. It was received enthusiastically and provided welcome relief from the greater harmonic astringence of those before him. Study Score/ Répertoire / Conducteur

Frank Bridge wrote these three light-hearted and fairly easy String Quartets for the English String Quartet of which he was a member to play at the Annual General Meeting of the Royal College of Music Union in 1904. Accessible for advanced school students they are published with the kind permission of the Frank Bridge Trust and transcribed from the original manuscript.

Par BRIDGE FRANK. Frank Bridge's Miniatures For Violin, Cello And Piano - Set 3. Nos. 7-9./ Répertoire / Trio avec Piano

Par BRIDGE FRANK. Originally composed in 1930 for Cello and Orchestra, this is a chamber arrangement of a sombre and poignant war requiem by Frank Bridge. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Par BRIDGE FRANK. Two small chamber works by Frank Bridge, available together for performance by Cello and Piano. Edited by Julian Lloyd Webber./ Répertoire / Violoncelle et Piano

Frank Bridge (1879 – 1941) was one of the leading English composers of his time. In October 1922 he adapted his popular string quartet Sir Roger de Coverley for full symphony orchestra and Sir Henry Wood agreed at the last minute to include it in the last night of the Queen’s Hall Promenade Concerts at the end of that month.This elaborate and colourful orchestral version has never been widely performed but has now been brilliantly transcribed by Alastair Wheeler to provide a miniature dance poem for grade 5 level concert band.Bridge’s lively treatment of one of England’s most famous traditional dance melodies willmake a fitting end to any concert with the strains of Auld Lang Syne introduced by Bridge as a nod towards Sir Roger de Coverley’s traditional function as the final dance of a Christmas Ball as it was in Old Mr. Fezziwig’s party in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.