New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd - Bridge: The Sea, Enter Spring, Summer (2004) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Enter Spring
02. Summer
03. 2 Poems of Richard Jeffries: Andante moderato e semplice
04. 2 Poems of Richard Jeffries: Allegro con brio
05. The Sea: No. 1 Seascape
06. The Sea: No. 2 Sea-foam
07. The Sea: No. 3 Moonlight
08. The Sea: No. 4 Storm


Perhaps no other English composer of the first half of the twentieth century reveals a stylistic musical journey as varied as that of Frank Bridge. No less a magnificent seascape than Debussy’s La Mer written six years earlier, The Sea belongs to Bridge’s late Romantic period. After the war years 1914-18, however, his music became more intense and chromatic, displaying a kinship with Berg, Bartók and other European contemporaries. Seemingly out of kilter with prevailing English musical conventions, Enter Spring, completed in 1927, is the last and greatest of Bridge’s tone poems.

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