Frank Bridge Sheet Music & Tabs

A captivating two movement Cello sonata with Piano accompaniment. A favourite of the composer and one of the most widely performed of his duets. A rich and soaring work imbued with an empathetic warmth.

These three pieces were written seperately between 1901 and 1910 for cello and piano but are arranged here for Violin and Piano. Three of Frank Bridge's more popular and familiar works from his early days of composition are included here and although masterful and beautiful are rather conservative in the use of traditional techniques.

Frank Bridge's rhapsody Enter Spring demonstrates like his contemporaries Respighi and Szymanowski to be a master of sensuous chromaticism. It was received enthusiastically and provided welcome relief from the greater harmonic astringence of those before him. Study Score

An evocative and enjoyable song by Frank Bridge for Cello with Piano accompaniment. Set for the ABRSM Guildhall School and Trinity College Cello examinations Grade 5.

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):

'Isabella' is Bridge's second symphonic poem and was completed on January 1907 and was the first orchestral work he chose to acknowledge. It is the only one of Bridge's orchestral work to follow a detailed narrative. It is based on Keats' 'Isabella or the The Pot of Basil' a poetic version of Boccasccio's gruesome Florentine tale.