Bridge - Piano Music Volume 2 | Naxos 8557921

Bridge - Piano Music Volume 2

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557921

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 30th April 2007

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Perhaps no other British composer of the first half of the twentieth century reveals a stylistic journey as varied as that of Frank Bridge, whose magnificent late-romantic orchestral suite The Sea (Naxos 8557167) is his best known work. 
 
His later style of composition, more experimental and demanding, and with no concessions to contemporary popular taste, was strongly influenced by the war of 1914-18. This is exemplified in his masterpiece, the Piano Sonata, completed in 1924, in his Lament for Catherine, for a child lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed and, less directly, in his Three Improvisations for the Left Hand, for the pianist Douglas Fox, who had lost an arm in the war.
 
Ashley Wass has won widespread plaudits for his contribution to the ever-growing catalogue of British piano music on Naxos, and specifically for his interpretations of Bridge with the release of the first volume in 2006: “Wass's shaping of this harmonically mobile music is just as assured as his presentation of the much more conventional moulds of the earlier works: it's a valuable collection.” The Guardian

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