Frank Bridge’s Three Songs for Medium Voice Viola and Piano is the second volume in a 30-volume series by The Frank Bridge Trust in association with Thames Publishing celebrating the works of Frank Bridge. This publication features the songs Far far from each other Where is it that our soul doth go? and Music when soft voices die and includes the score for Viola separately making the collaboration of the three musicians easier. The songs can be and often are performed together as a cycle but also work as short individual pieces. The first performance of the three songs in December 1908 marked a rareoccurrence as Frank Bridge played the Piano part himself. Far far from each other is the most ambitious of the three pieces for all three musicians. The words are excerpts from Matthew Arnold’s ‘Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems Parting’.Where is it that our soul doth go? is the shortest of the three songs and the words are a translation of the last stanza of Heinrich Heine’s Clarisse translated by K. F. Kroeker.While the first two songs are original settings Bridge first wrote Music when soft voices die for High Voice Piano and Cello in 1903. The present version was transcribed in 1907. Music when soft voices die the short poem providing the words for this piece is one of the most influential and well-known of Shelley’s works.Watch Three Songs performed by Rebecca Ringle (Mezzo-Soprano) Luke Fleming (Viola) and Roger Steptoe (Piano):

Bridge’s early works those written before the first World War were more late Romantic in style warmly expansive than his mature works. The Adagio is a four-Voice fugue of poetic expressiveness that makes full use of the instrument’s tonal resources.British composer Frank Bridge was active in the early decades of the 20th century and was a highly respected conductor violist and teacher his sole composition student having been Benjamin Britten. Britten honoured his former teacher in his work Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge based on a theme from one of Bridge’s pieces for String quartet.

A suite of four character pieces for the solo Piano by Frank Bridge written in autumn 1925 in response to a five-week visit to the Alps and the Mediterranean coast. The pieces represent Bridge at a time of personal security and happiness displaying the full force of his musical personality. Suitable for the accomplished Piano soloist. Published in association with The Frank Bridge Trust.

Selected Music For Solo Piano is a vast collection of pieces by English composer and violinist Frank Bridge.Bridge is mostly remembered for privately tutoring Benjamin Britten who later championed his teacher's music and paid homage to him in the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.

Frank Bridge (1879 – 1941) was one of the leading English composers of his time. In October 1922 he adapted his popular string quartet Sir Roger de Coverley for full symphony orchestra and Sir Henry Wood agreed at the last minute to include it in the last night of the Queen’s Hall Promenade Concerts at the end of that month.This elaborate and colourful orchestral version has never been widely performed but has now been brilliantly transcribed by Alastair Wheeler to provide a miniature dance poem for grade 5 level concert band.Bridge’s lively treatment of one of England’s most famous traditional dance melodies willmake a fitting end to any concert with the strains of Auld Lang Syne introduced by Bridge as a nod towards Sir Roger de Coverley’s traditional function as the final dance of a Christmas Ball as it was in Old Mr. Fezziwig’s party in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Arranged For Piano Duet-Bridge wrote his Suite for Strings in 1909-10 and it was published by Goodwin and Tabb in 1920. Composer and publisher had high hopes that the suite would be a popular success and a Piano-duet version was apparently prepared. The manuscript of this has not survived nor have any printed copies been traced. The Frank Bridge Trust therefore commissioned Hwee San Tan to make an arrangement which recieved its first public performance at the City University London on October 29th 1991 played by the arranger and Charlene Wells.

Frank Bridge's 1904 Sonata for Violin and Piano. A youthful and admirable first attempt at Sonata compostion this piece is not as masterful as his 1932 work but nevertheless displays his skilled working knowledge of the Violin.

This second volume of Part-songs by Frank Bridge contains 5 songs for 2-Part Upper voices and Piano accompaniment.

This work Trio Rhapsody For Two Violins And Viola was written in 1928 by Frank Bridge. This work of the English composer and viola-player is now beginning to enjoy some favour not least through the fact that he was the teacher of Benjamin Britten.

Par BRIDGE FRANK. Frank Bridge was one of the finest English composers of the first half of the 20th century. The Pageant of London is his only work for wind band, comprising of two marches, one scored from Bridge’s best known organ piece and including the chimes ofBig Ben, plus three short renaissance pastiche items, one arranged from Playford (later used by Peter Warlock in Capriol Suite). The music is tuneful, approachable and, in the words of wind band ‘legend’ Timothy Reynish makes a fine alternative toHolst’s two suites, which were composed around the same time. Reynish has introduced this work to concert bands right across the world. It has been performed in USA and the Far East, recorded by the celebrated Kosei Wind Orchestra of Japan and alsoby the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Chandos edition of Bridge Orchestral Music./ Répertoire / Orchestre D'Harmonie