I have been out to sea on everything from a ferryboat, aircraft carrier, cruise ships, and a sailboat. Nothing can compare to the power of the ocean. This music takes me back to the exhilaration of the sea air. Such a beautiful piece, and so masterfully played. BRAVO!
My thanks to Maestro Altinoglu and the whole orchestra for this stirring performance of a massively underrated classic. Delightful playing by everyone.
Puis la mer se réveille vombrissante d' écume charmante mais en colère contre un ciel qui ne l' écoute plus et s' obscurcit soudain . Mais l' espoir renait avec un soleil merveilleux eblouissant qui revient !
Ich kannte diesen Komponisten nicht. Da wurde es Zeit! Lt. Wikipedia gehört FRANK BRIDGE (1879 - 1941) zu den bedeutendsten Komponisten Großbritanniens. Seine Musik gefällt mir sehr gut!! Das Hessen-Rundfunk-Orchester auch. Das habe ich schon öfters im Radio (Hessen Kultur) gehört. Sehr schöne beeindruckende Musik - gut gespielt mit dem Dirigenten Alain Altinoglu!
This fine Music is vastly underrated! It's Moods mirror the Sea so perfectly! That glorious Ending!! Debussy's Interpretation is wonderful but I feel Frank Bridge went deeper into the Sea and produced a Gem!
A very nice concert I am streaming on tv now. Thank you for the introduction to Frank Bridge’s wonderful concert, performed by the Sinfonieorchester led by Maestro Alain Altinoglu.
Wunderschöne und detaillierte Aufführung dieser fein komponierten Suite mit farbenreichen und gut phrasierten Tönen aller Instrumente. Der letzte Satz klingt echt spektakulär und auch energisch. Der intelligente und geniale Dirigent leitet das hoch funktionelle Orchester in verschiedenen Tempi und mit völlig effektiver Dynamiik. Wahrlich hörenswert!
There are so many first class works rarely heard at the expense of standard repertoire. It’s the old story with audiences in general. “I know what I like and I like what I know”.
How could anyone listen to this phenomenal performance of a great, underrated classic of the 20th Century British repertoire and not be moved? Bravo to hr Sinfonieorchester - Frankfurt and Maestro Altinoglu for an incredible interpretation of this work, which so wonderfully captures the volatile, unpredictable nature of the sea: calm one minute, ready to destroy one the next. The British composers of this era seem to have had a finger on the pulse of the natural world. One must assume that this was recorded at a time when Europe was slowly emerging from the fall-out of the plandemic (no misspelling), thus the lack of audience, who, had it been in attendance, would have been treated to one incredible performance. A curse and pox on you globalists for your unwarranted and insufferable attack on the artistic world to further your demonic agenda!
Probably anti-British sentiment among the American so-called intellectual elite. Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Tippett are woefully under-performed and under-recorded in the US. As for second-tier 20th-century composers (Bridge, Bax, Walton, Bliss, Rubbra, Rawsthorne, Arnold et al), of whom the UK boasts more than any other country, they might as well not exist for Americans. Mind you, knee-jerk anti-Americanism also exists in the other direction.
@@DieFlabbergast I wouldn't consider Bax or Arnold second-tier. The Arnold symphonies are arguably the great cycle(maybe the only great cycle) of the late 20th century.
If Frank Bridge had been German he would now be celebrated in his home country for this wonderful work . However, being English he is undervalued and seldom heard in his native land where only pop artists are celebrated.
Brilliant playing of a piece I've long loved. Intoxicating melange of Brahms, Dvorak, Debussy, Bax , Richard Strauss, Stravinsky (Firebird vintage) and Vaughan Williams. In some ways a very plangeant and dark-hued work, "freighted with portents", because it represents a whole culture and ecology of musical tastes (from established late romanticism to still avant-garde Paris and Berlin) which was about to be eviscerated and incinerated in the horrors and idiocy of the Great War. I suppose it depends in part on who one believes were the wire-pullers, operating behind the surface and often absurd brinkmanship of August 1914. Being a classical Marxist, I see the interests of armaments manufacturers, war profiteers, and international financiers licking their lips at lending fortunes to governments. A capitalist class yearning to whip up artificial levels of xenophobic nationalism, and turn working classes against each other, in wars that served no one's interests except megalomaniac politicians and gutter-morality profiteers. And in particular, the anti-human creatures of Wall Street, who were keen to bankrupt the French and British empires, so that Yankee capitalism and imperialism and militarism could newly hold new sway over vast international markets, and command global resources at the point of American guns. All that is sinister in those schemes, and all that is imminently tragic in this needless European civil war, can be heard in this music. Even if Bridge new nothing consciously of these accumulating forces and machinations. Great artists are able to read the tectonic shifts and directions of an epoch subconsciously with often shocking perception. Especially given Bridge's heart-felt pacifism: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge Love andrea
What a shame. Disgraceful actually. He was a brilliant composer, as can be heard in this masterpiece. Also in other great orchestral pieces like Summer, Enter Spring and Suite for string orchestra (to name just a few), and well as a master off chamber music as well (for example his cello sonata, violin sonata, piano quintet and string sextet, the piano trios, to name a few).
Anyone who knows anything at all about Benjamin Britten, would also know his teacher, Frank Bridge. Britten's first masterpiece was the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.
@@ewaldsteyn469 No. it's not a "shame" and it's not "disgraceful." Bridge was good, but he was not "brilliant." A sense of proportion is required in this life. Even surveying 20th-century British composers alone, there are at least a dozen who composed far greater works than Bridge.
Esta orquesta tiene directores jóvenes que tienen en común una gran precisión y delicadeza. Debe haber alguien, el empresario o algún jefe, que vela y provee, para procurarse tan buenos directores, hasta el punto de que yo que sólo elijo y escucho, cuando la hay, ejecución de Directores como Mengelberg, Furtwängler, Knapertsbusch, Kraus, Solti, Rohzdenstwenski, Böhm, Kubelik, Sawallisch, Celebidache, ... pongo las versiones de estos ditectores, entre mis favoritas.
Beautiful piece (completed by Bridge while he was staying in Eastbourne on the south coast of England) & beautiful playing- btw, who's principal oboe here?
That's also where Debussy wrote his LA MER. The nearby cliffs are the attraction. Eastbourne is sadly now full of the near-deads. Since the 'Fifties a Retirement town for the middle rich South Londoners.
@@paulsomers6048 He's Jean-Jacques Goumaz, Nationaltheater Orchester Mannheim, here playing one of his own compositions! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2uBK-fab7fc.html
Most "impressionistic" music leaves me cold, and this "Sea" is as cold as it gets. Atmosphere abounds, but without any musical interest; it all seems like empty gestures. It's no fault of the FRSO however, who sound as brilliant and committed as always. "
I'm not a huge fan of Debussy or Ravel, but the so-called British "impressionists"( a misleading term) such as Delius, Bax, Ireland, and Bridge are something else entirely, as are Elgar and Vaughan Williams. It was early 20th century English music that weaned me off the German "classics" I worshipped in my youth. Only Schumann, Bruckner and Mahler came out relatively unscathed.
@@nb2816 I feel much the same as you do here; Elgar and Vaughan Williams are in fact my two favorite English composers, followed by Stanford and Parry, and more recently, Benjamin Britten. Bax is also a favorite, whose originality and style are easily recognizable. (I somehow don't consider him an "Impressionist", at least not in the same sense as the other three you cited,) And there are many more great ones worthy of mention; England has a rich musical heritage (as does Germany, which produced an abundance of talented composers with an impressive diversity of styles).
@@ronaldbwoodall2628 Try also Arthur Bliss, Edmund Rubbra, Herbert Howells, William Alwyn, Alan Rawsthorne, and Lennox Berkeley. England's classical composers FAR outperformed the Germans in the 20th century.
