Frank Bridge Sheet Music for Orchestra

Frank Bridge's evocative Dance Poem for orchestra (1913) is a crucial work in his output. As well as the arresting themes and vivid orchestral colours that typify this fascinating composer's early wor...

The individual emotional quality and organic structure of Oration place it high in Bridge's output and indeed in British music of the first half of this century. . .a profound work. . .Music and Lette...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2(II=ca).2.2 - 4231 - timp - perc(1): cyms - strings

Instrumentation: 2.2(II=ca).2.2 - 2230 - timp(=tgl) - harp - strings

Isabella' is Bridge's second symphonic poem, and was completed on January 1907, and was the first orchestral work he chose to acknowledge. It is the only one of Bridge's orchestral work to follow a de...

Instrumentation: 2.picc.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbsn - 4.2.2 crt.3.1 - timp -perc(2/3): tamb/gong/tgl/SD/BD+cym - harp - strings

Enter Spring showed Bridge, like his contemporaries, Respighi and Szymanowski, to be a master of sensuous chromaticism which, judging from its enthusiastic reception, provides welcome relief from the...

Instrumentation: 3(III=picc).2.2.2 – 4231 – timp – perc(2/3): SD/BD+cym/susp.cym/tgl/gong – harp – cel – strings Completed on 20th May 1908, Dance Rhapsody consists of three contrasting dance episodes...

Completed on 20th May 1908, Dance Rhapsody consists of three contrasting dance episodes, linked by related short transitions and framed by an arresting, extrovert Allegro energico. Imstrumentation: 3(...