IDAGIO | Bax: Piano Quintet in G minor - Bridge: Piano Quintet in D minor 747313247479

Featuring

Ashley Wass
John Mills
Jeremy Isaac
Julia O'Riordan
Bozidar Vukotic
Tippett Quartet

Sir Arnold Bax
Frank Bridge

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Performer Biography

Ashley Wass is the only British pianist to have won First Prize at the London International Piano Competition and was Naxos's first exclusively contracted solo artist.

Compositional Technique

Frank Bridge adopted 'fantasy' techniques in several compositions, a style he learned through composing works for the Cobbett Prize, which encouraged reviving the English 17th-century instrumental 'fantasy' form.

Composition History

Frank Bridge's Piano Quintet was radically revised in 1912, including rewriting the first movement and compressing two middle movements into one.

Composer's Artistic Vision

For Arnold Bax, the major formative influence was not musical, but rather Ireland and the poetry of W.B. Yeats, which became his prime inspiration.

Performer Biography

The Tippett Quartet, formed in 1998, has premiered works by composers including John Adams and Stephen Dodgson, and their recordings have topped both classical and pop charts.