Bridge Piano Trios Nos 1 and 2
Eloquent music-making – an essential acquisition for the Second Piano Trio
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Composer or Director: Frank Bridge
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Naxos
Magazine Review Date: 4/2009
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: 8 570792

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Phantasy |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Piano Trio No. 2 |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Miniatures (Set 1), Movement: Minuet |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Miniatures (Set 1), Movement: Gavotte |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Miniatures (Set 1), Movement: Allegretto con moto |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Miniatures (Set 2), Movement: Romance |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Miniatures (Set 2), Movement: Intermezzo |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Miniatures (Set 2), Movement: Saltarello |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Miniatures (Set 3), Movement: Valse Russe |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Miniatures (Set 3), Movement: Hornpipe |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Miniatures (Set 3), Movement: Marche Militaire |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Alexander Chaushian, Cello Ashley Wass, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Jack Liebeck, Violin |
Author: Andrew Achenbach
Of course, the masterpiece here is the epic Second Piano Trio of 1929, one of Bridge’s most cogent, questing and durable utterances, whose radical language so bamboozled the largely conservative British critics of the period. Wass and company lend it exhilarating advocacy in a realisation of enviable security, unswerving concentration and burning conviction, making theirs for my money the first digital version to set alongside the Tunnell Trio’s classic 1976 performance (now happily restored on an unmissable Lyrita twofer, harnessed to the Allegri Quartet’s marvellous pioneering Argo recordings of the masterly Third and Fourth string quartets).
Tip-top production values from Andrew Walton and exemplary notes by Andrew Burn set the seal on an irresistible bargain. Dare we hope that Liebeck and Wass will now go on to give us Bridge’s Violin Sonata?
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