This recording was made at 24-bit resolution in Wellington, New Zealand, between November 11th and 15th, 2002.
Composer's Artistic Vision
After the war years 1914-18, Frank Bridge's music became more intense and chromatic, showing a connection to European contemporaries like Berg and Bartók.
Album & Artwork
The cover picture for this album is an oil on canvas painting titled 'Squally Weather, South Coast' by Henry Moore (1831-95).
Composition History
Enter Spring, completed in 1927, is the last and greatest of Frank Bridge's tone poems.
Composition History
The Sea, a work by Frank Bridge, belongs to his late Romantic period and was written six years after Debussy's La Mer.
Composer Biography
Frank Bridge, an English composer, underwent a significant stylistic musical journey in the first half of the twentieth century.
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