Frank Bridge - Suite for String Orchestra

Frank Bridge's Suite for String Orchestra. Performed by the English String Orchestra (1909--1910).

[@hansedwards6418]

This is an amazing piece. I discovered Frank Bridge’s music while in college in the 90’s. I found a deep connection with the music of British composers of that era (my favorite being Ralph Vaughn Williams) and discovered Bridge by accident. What a wonderful accident.

[@heyguysinternet]

I wanted to take the opportunity to say that I am glad that so many people are enjoying this piece -- and to apologize about the ads which KZbin appears to have inserted on its own at the end of each movement. I find this imposition disgusting, but it looks like there is nothing I can do about it, aside from telling everyone to download ad-blocking add-ons for whatever hardware you are using. I only found out about the ads on this recently while playing from a phone on a car's speakers, and was horrified. I have no interest in monetization, and will always prioritize the integrity of art over receiving a few dollars over the course of a few years.

[@DieFlabbergast]

"imposition"? "disgusting"?? You do realise that KZbin is free, don't you? If there were no advertising, Google would have to charge people to view it. You want that? No? Then stop complaining -- there is NO free lunch in this life.

[@kallanda]

I like you.

[@clydederrick6297]

You can also subscribed for a modest fee each month and the ads are eliminated. It's changed my KZbin experience (especially watching full length movies).

[@Samalabear]

I discovered a lot of composers I had never heard before, like Bridge, when I moved into WSHU territory. Now I listen a lot to YourClassical.org because it is straight music, no ads and no painful NPR broadcasts every hour on the hour. Before I came to find this to put it on a favorites list consisting of Bridge and Delius, I heard Summer being played. Simply gorgeous.

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

Truly honest music, expressive and beautifully crafted.

[@Jimmyshum]

Very nice music. Intermezzo and Finale are my favourite parts. I think music from Frank Bridge are so underrated.

[@loughrigg8]

What a feast of delightful string writing.It ranks up high with the better known Elgar,and is harmonically far more inventive and at the same time intimate. Raymond

[@さもあんちょっぷ]

Super Beautiful.This is the music that connecting the cosmos between inside of heart.

[@toothlesstoe]

Such a delightful, hair-raising composition. A favorite of mine.

[@buonarroti100]

toothless toe musica universalis

[@rogerknox9147]

Frank Bridge was Benjamin Britten's main composition teacher.

[@nigelhaywood9753]

I know and it's largely thanks to Britten's success that Frank Bridge is still performed and listened to, I think, which is great but also quite ironic.

[@GaryLachman]

Wonderful discovery.

[@aphandolin]

Prelude 00:00 Intermezzo 6:25 Nocturne 9:25 Finale 15:42

[@visitantearte6806]

Obrigado.

[@kataboros1056]

Heaven

[@steveegallo3384]

True....but more rigorous, structured and disciplined.....Greetings from México!

[@jsamc]

KUSC played Peter Warlock, that’s how I got here.

[@aries6able]

what's with the adverts?!

[@heyguysinternet]

Use AdBlock Plus. Should get rid of 'em. I use it and it works.

[@obduliorincon6112]

🎧

[@andrewnorris2]

Discovered this music back in the 1990s when I bought a CD of this with John Ireland's 'Downland Suite'. They are and remain my most treasured recordings. Great to see it here. The tempo is different in places than what I am familiar with but that only makes it fresh again, thanks for the upload.

[@heyguysinternet]

You're welcome!

[@ianfraser4243]

One of my "what a shame" composers. A shame there is not more! Superb playing by ESO. Despite the late romantic tone, they play it very 18th century. The effect is spellbinding. Who is the conductor please?

[@terrygrimley9650]

The conductor is William Boughton. There is actually quite a lot of music by Bridge: Richard Hickox recorded the complete orchestral music for Chandos on 6CDs - well worth treating yourself to the boxed set if you don't know it. I'd particularly recommend The Sea (a staple work at the Proms at one time), Summer and the cello concerto, Oration, which is perhaps his masterpiece. Bridge is unusual for a British composer in having written a lot of chamber and piano music, and unique in that his style underwent a radical change after the First World War from the lyricism found in the Suite for Strings to a more austere and modernist idiom which led to his neglect in Britain. For a long time his name was remembered only for the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge by his pupil, Benjamin Britten. British music in the first half of the 20th century is often thought of as insular, so it's fascinating to discover that Bridge not only knew Schoenberg (the connection was through the American patron of music, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge) but introduced Britten to him.

[@mikescruffy1]

very pretty sad or happy Its how you interpret it

[@RoskinGreenrake]

Can't tell why you've just photographed a 5G cell tower.. (bottom mid)

[@heyguysinternet]

Not my photo!

[@marvinhusbands7485]

String orchestras 👍👍👍👍

[@MM-zr4xt]

Does anyone know what painting this is?

[@heyguysinternet]

It's a photo, but it's been so long that I don't remember where I found it. Usually I have authorial attribution for images, but that's missing here for some reason.

[@kuang-licheng402]

nice

[@SarumChoirmaster]

You should also listen to Cecil Forsyth, Alfred Hill, Gordon Jacobs and York Bowen!

[@DieFlabbergast]

And Edmund Rubbra, Herbert Howells, John Moeran, William Alwyn, and Alan Rawsthorne!

[@ito971]

intermezzo 6:25