For Wigmore Hall's Frank Bridge Song Focus, curator Iain Burnside digs deep into the treasure house of English art-song. With Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), violist Mark Braithwaite and pianist Iain Burnside.
Bridge's 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind'; Quilter's 'Music, when soft voices die'; Bridge's 'When most I wink'; Quilter's 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind'; Bridge's Three songs with viola: 'Far, far from each other'; 'Where is it that our soul doth go?'; 'Music when soft voices die'; Bridge's 'Pensiero'; Allegro appassionato (for viola and piano); Holst's From Hymns from the Rig Veda: 'Ushas (Dawn)'; 'Varuna I (Sky)'; 'Faith'; 'Indra (God of Storm and Battle)'; Simon Rowland-Jones's 'Whirling' (for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano); Holst's 'Journey's End'; Bridge's 'Day after day'; 'Dweller in my deathless dreams'; Holst's 'Now in these fairylands'; Bridge's 'Speak to me, my love'; Holst's 'Betelgeuse'; and Bridge's 'Journey's End'.