Bridge: Complete Songs - ROGER VIGNOLES (2 CDs)

  This important release brings together all forty-five of the songs composed by Frank Bridge. The programme is presented generally along chronological lines, and although the songs were written over two decades there is a remarkable consistency of style. A good number of the texts will be familiar from the songs of, say, Quilter or Finzi, but many more show Bridge’s enthusiasm for unearthing rather less well-known literary subject matter. CD11Sonnet 'When most I wink'[2'42]Janice Watson (soprano)2If I could choose[2'03]Gerald Finley (baritone)3The primrose  Ask me why I send you here[1'55]Jamie MacDougall (tenor)4A dirge  Rough wind, that moanest loud[1'06]Louise Winter (mezzo-soprano)5The Devon maid  Where be you going, you Devon maid?[1'28]Jamie MacDougall (tenor)6Dawn and evening  Dawn awaking hears my calling[2'03]Gerald Finley (baritone)7Where'er my bitter teardrops fall[1'39]Jamie MacDougall (tenor)8E'en as a lovely flower[3'15]Jamie MacDougall (tenor)9Blow, blow, thou winter