Bridge Songs
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Composer or Director: Frank Bridge
Label: Hyperion
Magazine Review Date: 1/1998
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 119
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDA67181/2
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| When most I wink |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Janice Watson, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| If I could choose |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| (The) Primrose |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Jamie MacDougall, Tenor Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| (A) Dirge |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Louise Winter, Mezzo soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| (The) Devon Maid |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Jamie MacDougall, Tenor Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Dawn and Evening |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| (2) Heine Songs |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Jamie MacDougall, Tenor Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Blow, blow, thou winter wind |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Go not, happy day |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Jamie MacDougall, Tenor Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Night lies on the silent highways |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| (A) Dead Violet |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Cradle Song |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Janice Watson, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Lean close thy cheek |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Jamie MacDougall, Tenor Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Fair Daffodils |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Janice Watson, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Adoration |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Louise Winter, Mezzo soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| So perverse |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Tears, idle tears |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| (The) Violets Blue |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Jamie MacDougall, Tenor Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Come to me in my dreams |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Janice Watson, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| My pent-up tears oppress my brain |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| (3) Songs |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Louise Winter, Mezzo soprano Roger Chase, Viola Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| All things that we clasp |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Janice Watson, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Love is a rose |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Janice Watson, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Dear, when I look into thine eyes |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Isobel |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| O that it were so |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Louise Winter, Mezzo soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Strew no more red roses |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Jamie MacDougall, Tenor Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Where she lies asleep |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Louise Winter, Mezzo soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Love went a-riding |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Janice Watson, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Thy hand in mine |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Louise Winter, Mezzo soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| So early in the morning, O |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Janice Watson, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Mantle of Blue |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Louise Winter, Mezzo soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| (The) Last Invocation |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Louise Winter, Mezzo soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| When you are old and gray |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Into her keeping |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Jamie MacDougall, Tenor Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| What shall I your true love tell? |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Louise Winter, Mezzo soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| 'Tis but a week |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Gerald Finley, Baritone Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| (3) Tagore Songs |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Jamie MacDougall, Tenor Janice Watson, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Goldenhair |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Janice Watson, Soprano Roger Vignoles, Piano |
| Journey's End |
Frank Bridge, Composer
Frank Bridge, Composer Jamie MacDougall, Tenor Roger Vignoles, Piano |
Author:
Bridge’s two most popular songs, Go not, happy day and Love went a-riding, are so immediately memorable (strong in melody and accompaniment) that one always fancies that others of their kind, less striking perhaps but still readily attractive, must exist to be discovered among his complete and quite considerable song output. His characteristic idiom, however, was from first to last less ‘catchy’, less exuberant, more thoughtful and inward-looking. His development, interestingly traced in Michael Pilkington’s notes, accelerated sharply in his last years as a song-writer, so that the three Tagore settings of 1924 and 1925, with Journey’s End, the last song of all, have a fluidity of movement that removes them entirely from the category of Edwardian or Georgian ‘ballad’. Yet he was hardly a writer of that kind even in his earliest days, the vocal line fastidiously avoiding obviousness and sentimentality, while the piano part develops interests of its own and often calls for some fairly advanced technical skill in the player. After the whole journey through these records, starting with a student composition from 1901 and ending with the work of a mature composer in his mid-forties, one rests with a sense of respect and of a not entirely reticent pleasure, yet not with tunes to hum or depths having been disturbed or any strong urge to go back as soon as possible and cover the ground again.
All four singers contribute well. Janice Watson’s fresh soprano ideally suits the attractive setting of Fair Daffodils, and to her falls very gratefully one of the loveliest of the songs, Come to me in my dreams. Louise Winter is at her best in the quietly moving Mantle of Blue andWhat shall I your true love tell?. Jamie MacDougall finds just the right coloration for “Dweller in my deathless dreams” (from the Three Tagore Songs) and Gerald Finley responds well to both the delicacy and the passion of the Yeats setting, When you are old and gray. All benefit from Roger Vignoles’s scrupulous and sensitive playing, as of course do the songs themselves. Complaints, of which there are few, are not worth making. Bridge has not been over-generously served on record, and these two CDs, finely recorded and thoughtfully presented, are a most timely and valuable addition to the catalogue.
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All four singers contribute well. Janice Watson’s fresh soprano ideally suits the attractive setting of Fair Daffodils, and to her falls very gratefully one of the loveliest of the songs, Come to me in my dreams. Louise Winter is at her best in the quietly moving Mantle of Blue and
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Bridge Songs
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