Frank Bridge ‒ The Hour Glass, H.148
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- Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941), The Hour Glass, H.148 (1919-1920)
Performed by Ashley Wass (2007)
00:00 - No. 1 Dusk: Molto moderato
05:00 - No. 2 The Dew Fairy: Allegretto moderato e rubato
08:50 - No. 3 The Midnight Tide: Molto lento
Frank Bridge was born in Brighton on 26 February 1879 and died on 10 January 1941. He was one of the finest all-round musicians Britain has had, being a string player of the highest class (playing violin or viola in the best string quartets of the first quarter of the century), a good conductor of both orchestral music and opera, and an excellent teacher. Though his teaching was concerned with string playing he had one composition pupil, Benjamin Britten. He was a competent pianist, occasionally appearing on the concert platform in performances of his songs. All this besides being one of the major composers of his time.
Bridge went to the Royal College of Music in 1896, studying violin and piano. In 1899 he started composition lessons with Stanford. Bridge was primarily interested in instrumental music, particularly chamber music. He had a first-class command of the technique of composition and, being a string player, naturally understood the quartet ‘from the inside’. Until the end of the First World War his idiom was conservative, deriving from Brahms and Stanford but acquiring almost Delian chromatics at times. His music was popular, and he was always able to provide pieces the public could understand and love.
After the war his attitude changed. Bridge came under the influence of Alban Berg, and his music became much more dissonant and almost atonal. This took him beyond the reach of many of his contemporaries, and his popularity declined. Nevertheless, his last two Quartets and the second Piano Trio are major works of this century. It is fascinating to wonder what would have happened if Bridge’s efforts to make Benjamin Britten study with Berg had been successful. But the musical establishment of the time did not approve, and Britten stayed in England. - เพลง
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Not only the melody of NO 2, but also the score is beautiful.
美しい音楽を紹介してくれてありがとう。
Exactly
It looks like ornaments.
Thanks Medtnaculus for another repertoire-expanding, ear-opening addition to the canon.
More like The 14 Minute 49 Second Glass.
Paul, you're absolutely killing it.
This is a good one
The performed music is as beautiful as the printed score. What a delightful and fragile piece - like the tinkling of fine crystal. Thank you for posting.
The music is so peaceful and i love it.
'Dew Fairy' - enchanting composition and performance
How have I never heard of this composer up until now?
He's better known as the teacher of Benjamin Britten.
Stunningly beautiful thanks so much for sharing!
Absolutely beautiful composition. The pianist is exceptional as well. Thank you for posting.
Very beautiful piece, and beautifully performed! I had pleasure listening to this pianist in my country, Armenia :)
Recently wrote a minimalist piece (for piano) with the same title... I'm disappointed with myself for not doing the name justice now.
Lets us judge?
conradthe2
Cela peut arriver, vous pouvez certainement trouver quelque chose qui respecte votre inspiration première tout en laissant le titre intégral de Franck Bridge à... Franck Bridge!
Personnellement, mésaventure du même type (si j'ai bien compris votre souci) : j'ai composé des "Histoires comme ça" ; Las, Rudyard Kipling était passé par là...
Que faire ?
J'ai opté pour "Neuf Histoires comme ci" ; j'aurais peut-être pu trouver mieux et + fin, mais nous étions dans l'urgence ( une commande, programmation, etc...)
Bonne chance !
Never heard this before. Thank you.
Listening to this a second time on 2 November 2017
Who says we Brits can't compose piano music in the early part of the 20th Century as good as the French. Just listen to this, Debussy/Ravel would have been proud of it!
I read that Debussy found inspiration in English music. He was a fan of John Ireland ... Can't say I blame him. That said, there are some underrated Frenchies who are as good as anyone. Koechlin comes to mind
@Marius Walther moron
@Marius Walther I mean..., you're the fascist nacionalist here.
@Marius Walther you could compare works of Debussy and Ravel with the finish composer Enojuhani Rautavaraa. Other style, other time, but the quality of work and orchestration is nearly the same.
@Marius Walther In terms of Brits? The only really great composer who springs to mind is Purcell. If we're talking about musicians of the period in general, the Russian/Ukranian/Soviet composers were far ahead of Ravel and Debussy. Schoenberg (verklarte nacht in particular), Lyatoshinsky, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke. They were completely ahead of European music of the time.
And personally, I think Rautavaraa works surpass the calibre of most of Ravel's.
Wonderful piece esp the second movement. Excellent playing as well
Medtnaculus, thank you for always uploading rare and underrated pieces. This is so mysterious yet beautiful in his way
Thank you!
thank you
Bewizardingly awesome!
Very helpful and educational for music engraver like me.
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@Rogelio Anakin Flixportal :)
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@Rogelio Anakin no problem xD
You're definitely a bot
good sounds~
Thank you for the upload! And such wonderful playing! As far as the limited amount I heard so far, it seems to me that this composed has a music that is full of beautiful chords and passages, but I feel a bit frustrated that, to my limited perception, they seem to go nowhere, and after a while it gets monotonous. Then again, it might be me, and it might also be my present inability to appreciate this music. This does not in any way belittle the effort, skill and time put into bringing forth this interpretation. Thank you!
Grand merci pour cette découverte très passionnante.
Nous allons poursuivre l'exploration de ce compositeur encore inconnu de nous il y a qq minutes (et pourtant, nous sommes des assidus d'oreille de B. Britten!!)
Aline Marteville, compositrice.
Qui est ''nous''?
vetlerradio
Je réponds :
"Nous" , c'est :
- moi, Aline Marteville, compositrice et pianiste
- jean-christophe Rigaud mon complice en concerts à 2 pianos
- les étudiants de ma classe de composition.
(Liszt non exhaustive...)
Voilà !
C'est tout simple !
Merci !
I love the second piece……
I hear Ravel in this music; Le Gibet in particular! Marvelous sonorities.
Where exactly?
Epic
Благодарствую, спирачилЬ!
Some of the chord structures and melodic fragments (13:15 especially) in "Midnight Tide" make me think that Leonard Pennario was inspired by this piece for his Midnight on the Cliffs. Pennario's is much much more grandiose and "swoopy" with the arpeggios but I swear some of the seeds are in this piece.
Zed O'Haughy I love midnight on the cliffs, difficult to play at the right speed too. I wish I had all his other piano pieces.
In Bridge's view here, what does the Midnight Tide bring?
. : .
Reminds me of Tournemire. The two were contemporaries.
Did Tournemire write for the piano? Most of what he wrote are organ works, dominated by the vast liturgical cycle L'Orgue Mystique, which is patchy in quality to say the least...
@@richardharrold9736 Yes and he wrote for the orchestra. Some of it sounds similar to Debussy, some like other French composers of his era. Then again there are many signature tropes which are common in his organ music. Do a You tube search.
@@richardharrold9736 L'Orgue Mystique is a masterpiece. I hope St.Peter makes a comment about that before letting you through the pearly gates.
@@ninjaassassin27 I know it well, I uploaded the entirety of it to TH-cam. Bits of it are good. Large swathes of it are tedious.
@@richardharrold9736 th-cam.com/video/MBuyojDhCK8/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/Vu4cvliZG34/w-d-xo.html
I don't agree with your judgement "patchy" however.
Hi Ashley; I'm sure you had a reason for doing it but in the last piece (The Midnight Tide) on the third page you played three E flats followed by three more E flats where what is written are three D naturals. Otherwise, Wow... I loved the piece.
I don't think so. If by "page", you mean screen of score, where 3 Ebs followed by 3 Ds do indeed occur, what I hear there is exactly what the score shows.
These are wonderful pieces, as are Frank Bridge's piano works generally - but I do wonder whether this performance is a bit on the slow side - at least in the 2nd and 3rd pieces (I'm not so familiar with the first). Could just be that, before hearing any other performances, I got a certain impression of the appropriate tempo from examining the score and playing myself.
After years of listening to music I came across Frank Bridge - having dismissed him - through Benjamin Britten. It is wonderful advanced stuff that I cannot stop listening to. The piano sonata! These supposedly light things are solid pieces of genius that suggest an adventurous and sensitive intellect. I wonder if he knew how good he was? I suppose he did. Britten could not have had a better teacher despite what the biography says about Bridges' apparently slap-dash approach (am I right?) and, I think, drunkenness. The Naxos CD covers are rather inappropriate, suggesting Edwardian drawing rooms but I guess the marketing people chose the. A Kandinsky would be more appropriate. At any rate a more adventurous English illustrator.
I wrote a lengthy reply the bloody TH-cam mode just obliterated. No, that was Ireland at the RCM who was drunk and whom Britten saw urinating in the corner of the room like an 18th century man. Bridge was meticulous and made him justify every note. 'Do you really mean that?' he kept challenging Britten. 'Yes damn you I do.' 'Well' said Bridge hurt, 'you shouldn't.'. Yes Bridge is one of our dozen greatest composers, and he, and then Bax (primarily great in the Sonatas, and some larger-scale shorts, lacking Bridge's crystalline precision), Ireland, Scott (Sonatas again and a few shorts), the miraculous William Baines dead at 23 and William Alwyn wrote the greatest number of piano works. Rawsthorne Tippett (particularly, with the 4 sonatas) and Lambert all contributed, but it ends with Alwyn's 1956 Fantasy Waltzes and Preludes in 1959, and then there's just the marvelous John McCabe.
Thanks for the information. I'm glad he wasn't a drunk! I will listen to the Bax sonatas immediately. I've always like Tintagel. And the others over the next year.
"After the War"...obviously WW1, since Bridge died in 1941. This music is beautiful. No Alban Berg here.
A great composer, underrated?
i think it would be nice if there was no extra silence at the end (ar maybe there's something that i don't hear?)
Le son est anormalement faible (décibels), non ?
The classical nerd brought me here, who else?
Mr. Frank Visser
Chrono Trigger
This is wild speculation driven by minimal knowledge: he grew up in the shadows of the Impressionists. Unlike Debussy, who was a zealous French nationalist, he hated everything about WWI and lost good friends in it (I guess like everyone else). Perhaps he wrote such harmonious music to soothe his own soul from the horrors of war. I guess tumultuous times drives people into madness (Schoenberg) or pure self-preservation.
Like I said, I freely admit I don’t really know what I’m talking about.
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Sounds a bit like Bloch, the way nothing much happens...
Far too many clichés and musical processes already worn out in his time.
Ah yes, the "historical relevancy" argument from the academy, lol. Brings to mind Glenn Gould's idea of writing a fake but good imitation of a Haydn sonata, presenting it either as by Haydn, Vivaldi, or Mendelssohn, and then getting three totally different critical opinions as to its quality and worth.
Would your reception have been different if this had been written in 1897?
Does Warlock suck because he copied Delius?
@@nb2816 Ah yes, the historical irrelevancy argument from the peanut gallery, lol. Brings to mind Stanley Fish's idea that the piece only means what the listener thinks it means and denying the very basis for having an opinion in the first place.
@@talastra And your point is?
@@nb2816 Can you really not parse it?