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(The) Sea
Composed by Frank Bridge
Performed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Charles Groves
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Summer
Composed by Frank Bridge
Performed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Charles Groves
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Cherry Ripe
Composed by Frank Bridge
Performed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Charles Groves
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Enter Spring
Composed by Frank Bridge
Performed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Charles Groves
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Lament
Composed by Frank Bridge
Performed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Charles Groves
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A perfect introduction to the enormously rewarding output of this underrated figure. The masterpiece here is the 1927 tone-poem, Enter Spring: an astonishingly inventive and riotously colourful outpouring from Bridge's maturity, it is unquestionably one of the pinnacles of 20th-century British orchestral music. The Sea, a thrillingly evocative four-movement suite of breathtaking beauty, is an earlier work (from which Bridge's pupil, Benjamin Britten, picked up plenty of ideas for his Four Sea Interludes). We also get the gorgeous nature-poem Summer (completed in 1914, four years after The Sea) as well as the deeply moving Lament and frolicsome Cherry Ripe.
A perfect introduction to the enormously rewarding output of this underrated figure. The masterpiece here is the 1927 tone-poem, Enter Spring: an astonishingly inventive and riotously colourful outpouring from Bridge's maturity, it is unquestionably one of the pinnacles of 20th-century British orchestral music. The Sea, a thrillingly evocative four-movement suite of breathtaking beauty, is an earlier work (from which Bridge's pupil, Benjamin Britten, picked up plenty of ideas for his Four Sea Interludes). We also get the gorgeous nature-poem Summer (completed in 1914, four years after The Sea) as well as the deeply moving Lament and frolicsome Cherry Ripe.
This enterprising British Composers programme from EMI always was one of Sir Charles Groves's most enduring achievements. Granted, certain individual performances may outflank Groves's in terms of imaginative insight and elemental rapture (Vernon Handley's 1985 account of The Sea with the Ulster Orchestra on Chandos springs to mind, as well as a uniquely cherishable Enter Spring from the 1967 Aldeburgh Festival with the New Philharmonia under Benjamin Britten on BBC Legends). Overall, though, it's an instructive and valuable anthology, and in this latest remastering the expertly balanced 1975 recording comes up as fresh as new paint--do investigate. --Andrew Achenbach
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