Frank Bridge - Mid of the Night, symphonic poem (1904)
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- Frank Bridge (26 February 1879 - 10 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor.
Work: Mid of the Night, symphonic poem (1904)
Orchestra: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor: Richard Hickox - เพลง
One characteristic of Bridge's music that I admire (and one which, granted applies to the music of many others) is his continued reliance on and development of Tonality (by the time of this work, a very old system, but one which still represented inexhaustible possibilities to the composer). Love the late-Romantic, Impressionist, pastoral harmonic language, as well as the various "moods" here, some more energetic than others.
This was one of the FB works that I exhumed from the archives for this recording by BBC NOW. It's a lovely recording, but with hindsight, it probably needs to go along a bit quicker in places. It's Bridge's first big orchestral piece. He was 25. Check out his complete works in my book Frank Bridge - The Complete Works (PHM Publishing)
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I was thinking, this is going a bit slow, just before I read your comment.
Wonderful blend of styles and influences. Excellent piece. One of the more tasteful composers of the era.
Fantastic English symphony music! I am so happy to discovered!
Brilliantly adventurous, moody, intriguing. Just what an original tone poem should be.
A composer is new to me. Keep em comin.
Doug Bower: If you're trying to fall in love with Frank Bridge, may I suggest his "Valse Intermezzo", enclosed. Just a delightful and intriguing piece, but a great introduction to this composer. th-cam.com/video/GMU8ZftD2Fs/w-d-xo.html
Toujours tres beau
thank you!
A very puzzling composer, capable of very beautiful effects and compelling themes, but also of long passages of featureless, generalised sonority, and no one piece of his seems to me to sustain anything like the development of musical ideas that one might expect on the basis of his emotional insight and discipline.
That's a very interesting comment. It would be interesting to know how Bridge edited his own work. His overall style is difficult to pin down. Perhaps that's why he's not as popular as he could be.
I beg to differ. Perhaps earlier, but his more mature works belie your characterization in my view/hearing.
Rather like Bruckner.
well.. for a midnight song at least he puts you to bed at the end 😴
18:17 Dukas and Tchaikovsky's baby.
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I was looking for a set piece song and came across Frank Bridges, is he the composer of the song 'Sister awake close not your eyes'?
Yes! www.gramophone.co.uk/review/britten-bridge-choral-music
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who would you say he is the most similar to .. of the big boys (Beethoven, etc.) ?
My vote on similarity would be to Mahler. This is my idea, not learned opinion.
This is very early Bridge, written around 1903 when he was in his early 20s. This recording, made in the 1990s, might have been only its second performance. His style changed abruptly around the First World War. Stylistic reference points in his romantic early music include Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Faure, Rachmaninov. His later, more modernist, music adds Ravel, Stravinsky and the second Viennese school (he actually introduced his pupil, Benjamin Britten, to Schoenberg!).
NO, BUT BEETHOVEN IS FAR OVER PLAHYED BY ORCHESTRAS H VING AN EASY TIME PLAYING REPEATEDLY THE SAME 5 PER CENT OF MUSIC FROM 1850 TO 1950 , BEING OUT OF ORDER BY REPEATEDLY, 3NEGLECTING THEE OTHER EQUALLY EXCELLENT AND SOMETIMES FAR BETTER 95 PER CENT .
2:53 - I wonder.... where did the Pixar Incredibles theme come from?...
I believe it's a very short-term correlation and most likely a co-incidence, also given how long this symphonic poem is. Meaning, if you take short segments out of it, you can find such similarities with a lot of other pieces.
@@ataxias7 -- True....Often they're resonating only some chimeric notion of an echoed motif associated rather with selective reminiscence than with deep reflexion or imagination…..