Frank Bridge - Mid of the Night, H. 30

Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941) - Mid of the Night, H. 30 (1903)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (2000)
Frank Bridge's symphonic poem Mid of the Night is his first major orchestral work. After its first performance in 1904, the piece was shelved and was not performed again until the 2000s.
"29 May 1904 marked the first milestone in Bridge's professional career, when he conducted the first performance at London’s St James’s Hall of a symphonic poem he had finished the previous October. Mid of the Night is an ambitious work of Lisztian proportions; the twenty-four-year-old Bridge clearly wanted to demonstrate all that he could do as a composer and orchestrator. The score is prefaced with these lines:
Comes the mid of the night, ends for a while the brooding,
Up from the depths of the soul memories well into life.
Emblazened against the night more and more real they are growing;
Comes the approach of dawn and they die in the bleak grey light.
No longer under [Charles Villiers] Stanford’s watchful eye, Bridge looked further afield than Brahms and Dvořák for his models. He loved the music of Tchaikovsky, for example, and some of this composer’s dark orchestral colouring finds its way into the brooding introduction. The music unfolds with freedom and confidence although within a sonata-form framework. The balletic first subject and the lilting, almost Elgarian second episode are both fast and flowing, culminating in a brilliant fanfare. In place of the development there is an extended lyrical episode, begun with haunting cor anglais and violin solos and brought to an impassioned climax. The recapitulation is compressed, driving the music on until it dies away with the ‘approach of dawn’."
(source: Chandos)

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Frank Bridge:Az éjszaka közepe 1.Andante - Allegro moderato 00:00 2.Andante moderato 11:15 3.Allegro moderato 17:53 4.Andante - Andante moderato 23:32 BBC Walesi Nemzeti Zenekara Vezényel:Richard Hickox

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[@smirnoff6619]

Really like your content!!! Can you make something from Joseph Kraus please? That's a very nice composer although it's pity that he is unpopular.

[@precipotato442]

I will certainly check him out! I currently have my videos for the next ~2 months mostly planned already, but I'll keep him in mind for video ideas after that. If you want, I can also pass your request on to Stefano Paparozzi, since this seems up his alley.

[@smirnoff6619]

@@precipotato442 he is basically doing the same content as you do so he is probably having also a lots of ideas and it will take also long, if you really don't want to do this composer I can understand, and I will be glad if you pass this idea to Stefano Paparozzi in that case

[@precipotato442]

Sorry for the late reply! I listened a bit and I like what I have heard from Kraus, so thanks for introducing him to me :). For now though, I want to mostly focus on making videos for 20th century music, so I'll pass this one on to Stefano. Are there specific pieces you'd like done?

[@smirnoff6619]

@@precipotato442 Sorry but I almost know nothing about 20th century music :^) I'm more of baroque classical guy so I don't have much to request or you already did it, so the biggest thing I can do is to listen more videos on your channel :)

[@precipotato442]

So I contacted Stefano and he says that, while he is very interested in Kraus, there aren't many pieces with both scores and recordings available. However, he is planning to Proserpin at some point, though it may be a few months before he gets to that.

[@Philhamm]

Big Tchaikovsky influence!

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No, not at all, this is genuinly English