Orchestral Works, Volume 8 (Incl The Pageant of London)

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FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Works, Volume 8 (Incl The Pageant of London)
Sarah Connelly (mezzo) Philip Langridge (tenor) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox

[ Chandos / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 1 November 2008

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'The nine orchestral songs prove the most rewarding. Connolly sings two exquisite Tagore songs with rapturous intensity, while Langridge is superb in Bridge's 1918 setting of Rupert Brooke's 'Blow Out, You Bugles'.'
The Guardian

'The spacious sound and Paul Hindmarsh's informative notes are well up to the standards of the earlier five volumes. A pity that, like all good things, this series has to end…'
International Record Review

'Crowned with Song'
BBC Music Magazine 'Monthly Choice'

'Throw in some spick and span playing from the BBC NOW and Chandos' commendably natural engineering, not to mention Paul Hindmarsh's scholarly notes, and you have a job well done. Might Hickox now be persuaded to turn his thoughts to Bridge's lovely one-act opera 'The Christmas Rose'?'
Gramophone

'The nine orchestral songs shared between tenor Philip Langridge and mezzo Sarah Connolly, and mostly recorded for the first time, prove the most rewarding. Connolly sings two exquisite Tagore songs with rapturous intensity, while Langridge is superb in Bridge's 1918 setting of Rupert Brooke's 'Blow Out, You Bugles'.'
The Guardian

Tracks:

Blow out, you bugles, H 132 (1918)
Adoration, H 57 (1905/1918)
Where she lies asleep, H 114 (1914)
Love went a-riding, H 115 (1914)
Thy hand in mine, H 124 (1917/1923)
Berceuse, H 9 (1901)
Mantle of blue, H 131 (1918/1934)
Day after day, H 164i (1922) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
Speak to me, my love, H 164ii (1924)for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
Berceuse, H 8 (1901/1902/1928)
Chant d'espérance, H 18ii (1902)
Serenade, H 23 (1903)
The Pageant of London, H 98 (1911)