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Background: Perhaps no other British composer of the first half of the twentieth century reveals a stylistic musical journey as great as Frank Bridge. His early works follow in the late-Romantic tradition bearing a kinship with Fauré; later Bridge comes close to Delius.

After the First World War, however, his music became intense and chromatic. In his String Quartet No.3 (1926), Bridge rubs shoulders with the early works of the Second Viennese School. Commissioned by the American patroness Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, it fully revealed for the first time Bridge’s advanced mature voice. The work's language shows kinship with Berg and Bartók; the twelve semitones are constantly in play; octave doublings are avoided, and the music is driven by a relentless momentum.

Bridge's First String Quartet was written in haste in the space of a month in response to a competition organized by the Accademia Filarmonica, Bologna. Of the 67 quartets submitted only Bridge's received a 'mention d’honneur'.

CATALOGUE NR: 8557133
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.88 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Sep-2003

COMPOSER: Frank Bridge
TRACKS: String Quartet No.1. String Quartet No.3.
ARTISTS: Maggini Qt      

- Oct-2003 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Oct-2003 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'The flowering of English expressionism receives deservedly superb performances' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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