Cherry Ripe (Bridge) - from CDH55002 - Hyperion Records

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Track(s) taken from CDH55002

Digital booklet (PDF)

Cherry Ripe

composer

Frank Bridge (1879-1941)

1916; for string quartet

Delmé Quartet

Recording details: October 1988
Unknown, Unknown
Release date: November 1989
Total duration: 3 minutes 24 seconds

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Reviews

‘How many string quartets play encores? Those that don't should have a listen to the Delmé Quartet's highly entertaining selection. The playing is excellent.’ (Classic CD)

‘This is quite magnificent’ (CDReview)

Introduction
English

Cherry Ripe, from 1916, is a miniature tone poem, whose bustling opening gives no hint of the tune, which eventually eases in unannounced, emerging out of the contrapuntal texture as a second subject. Towards the climax, Bridge cleverly combines his own energetic subject with the tune.

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Studio Master: CDA68003Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

The Nash Ensemble, which has made a speciality of British twentieth-century music, presents a fascinating compendium of Frank Bridge’s chamber works, demonstrating the composer’s developing style.» More