Frank Bridge Three Idylls for String Quartet

[@robertcohn8858]

This goes into my "calm down" bookmarks. Thanks very much for providing such a beautiful recording.

[@johnstag1391]

Intensely beautiful

[@lillischneider6667]

Absolutely amazing! I heard this in a concert today and I‘m in love with it!

[@mashtali1]

Frank Bridge is wonderful and so unfairly unknown.

[@piotr9914]

what do you think is the reason he's so unfairly unknown? I suspect is because everybody talks about the composers they are already familiar with (Mozart and Brahms) and are not willing to try new things....

[@federicobuela3098]

Muy bueno

[@robertdavidson8028]

@@piotr9914 I think that was more inclined to be the case when I was in my youth ( I'm now of pensionable age) when older people were more aligned to the primacy of Austro - Germanic composers and the tyranny of "the repertoire" than we are generally nowadays - with the triumvirate of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven at the top of the pile, and Brahms, Schubert and Schumann slightly below and so on, although I would agree that it still persists to a degree. I remember people saying of European composers not of those races " 'not of the first rank"; I even remember one of my music professors (at a highly regarded university) disparaging French orchestras for not being able to play in tune - something that the contemporaneous recordings did not bear out at all - mind you, I think he may have also remarked that any Frenchman owning 3 books thought he had a library; so I think maybe he was a bit of a racist old fart, as well as hanging onto other unjustified prejudices. I remember that Saint-Saens fell into the "non - first rank" bias so common at the time; when I discovered that, as I understand it, his unfortunate wife had dropped their very unfortunate baby out of an upstairs window, causing its (I don't know the gender) death, that he had been unable to forgive her and had shortly after taken a mistress. I did wonder whether that had anything to do with his relegation to the second rank (on moral grounds!) , but it may well just be that in the canon of Western Musical literature the triumvirate were considered to have composed the greatest number of masterwork oeuvres in the most respected genres and others were ranked accordingly. In the case of F. Bridge I have gleaned a little from an old acquaintance of mine who did his doctorate on British composers before & between the world wars; I may have misremembered, but as I recall FB was quite obviously more progressive and experimental than others of his generation - but he also knew it, and made insufficient attempt to disguise the fact - which honesty /arrogance/ (choose your own epithet) a rather more inhibited and, dare I say, modest British Musical Establishment than is, perhaps, the case nowadays, frowned upon - and treated immodesty as a greater crime than lack of talent - a far cry from nowadays do I hear (though not necessarily in this particular field)?.

[@jackymartin5167]

Robert Davidson o

[@steveegallo3384]

@@robertdavidson8028 -- Excellent....BRAVO from an old Jew in Acapulco!

[@josealexandreferreiradacos193]

An absynth drop into an empty bottle.and dreaming it´s deadly full.

[@mikesummers-smith4091]

The second idyll is the basis for Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.