Quick note a propos Frank Bridge
Morning on 3 - a program on BBC Radio 3 - this morning - had Nicholas Cleobury's recording (w/Britten Sinfonia) of Frank Bridge's brief tone-poem There Grows a Willow aslant a Brook. When I first heard that piece I didn't recognize the line from Hamlet*, but then I hadn't read Hamlet yet and didn't read the notes to the recording carefully, either. Between today and a week from the broadcast (so, January 6 EST or so) you can hear it, and I recommend the piece (it's been awhile since I've last heard it, and it's quite good, like so much of this unusual early 20th-century British composer's music.)
(Teacher of Benjamin Britten and very highly-regarded by him, so fitting that the Britten Sinfonia should be playing... anyway, recommended.)
If you have RealPlayer (set to
rtsp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio3/morningon3_sun.rpm )
or go to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/morningon3/pip/ozr4q/
and click a link near the top to launch a RealPlayer plugin, if you have that.)
*It's the opening line to the announcement of Ophelia's death- though I gather I may be misunderstanding that...
