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Track(s) taken from CDD22071

Sonnet 'When most I wink'

composer
Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
8 April 1901
author of text
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnet 43

Janice Watson (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Recording details: January 1997
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: June 1997
Total duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds

Cover artwork: Alby, Norfolk. John Middleton (1827-1856)
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
 

Bridge went to the Royal College of Music in 1896, studying violin and piano. In 1899 he started composition lessons with Stanford. Sonnet ‘When most I wink’, the first of Bridge’s songs to survive, was clearly written as a student, the words probably chosen by Stanford and with a revision of the final phrase pencilled into the manuscript, no doubt during a lesson. This revision is almost certainly by Stanford and not Bridge. The song already shows signs of the composer’s love of sliding chromatic modulation.

from notes by Michael Pilkington © 1997

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