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Bridge, Scott: Piano Quintets

Bridge / Terroni / Bingham String Quartet / Scott Release Date: 12/11/2015
Label: Naxos Catalog #:  Spars Code: DDD
Composer:  Frank Bridge ,  Cyril Scott Performer:  Raphael Terroni Orchestra/Ensemble:  Bingham String Quartet Number of Discs: 1
Recorded in: Stereo Length: 1 Hours 7 Mins.

Frank Bridge is today recognized as one of the most gifted figures in British musical life before World War I. His Piano Quintet, a work of personal significance prompted by the absence of his fiancee, is notable for its passionate, lyrical, and forceful language, the Rachmaninov-like technical demands of the piano part calling for a virtuoso pianist. Debussy described Cyril Scott's exotic harmonic language as "an intoxication for the ear", and the First Piano Quintet is a multi-faceted work that mirrors Scott's flamboyant public persona while maintaining a genuinely poetic inner beauty. beauty. Read less