English Music for Strings: Britten, Bliss, Bridge & Berkeley
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA5264
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 29th January 2021
Contents
Artists
Sinfonia of LondonConductor
John WilsonWorks
Serenade, op.12Music for Strings
Lament
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, op.10
Artists
Sinfonia of LondonConductor
John WilsonAbout
Bliss composed Music for Strings after he had completed the film score for Korda’s Things to Come, driven by his desire to compose a piece of ‘pure music’, expressing his own ideas rather than those of others.
Commissioned in May 1937 by Boyd Neel for the Salzburg Festival that summer, Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge was composed at great speed, and helped to establish the young composer’s international reputation. Dedicated to his teacher, Frank Bridge, the theme is taken from the second of Bridge’s Three Idylls for string quartet.
Lennox Berkeley composed his Serenade for Strings at Snape Maltings, where he was living with Britten in 1938/39. By the time of its completion the nation was at war and the music seems to reflect the composer’s anxious mood as the world faced an uncertain future.
The album is recorded in Surround-Sound, and available as a hybrid SACD. The front cover features a painting by Edward Wadsworth of Bliss’s house, Pen Pits, built for him in 1935.
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