Cat No. JM72080
Price £35.00
Composer: Frank Bridge
Arranger: Paul Hindmarsh
Category: Music from the First World War

Duration 4.00 

Paul Hindmarsh writes :

The English composer Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941) did not take an active part in the First World War However, he was devastated by the slaughter on the western and the eastern fronts, especially the loss of so many of his musician friends and colleagues. Writing in 1963, his former pupil Benjamin Britten confessed that "a lot of my feelings about the First World War which people seemed to see in the War Requiem came from Dridge. He had written a piano sonata in mermory of a friend killed in France and though he didn't encourage me to take a stand for the sake of a stand, he did make me argue and argue. His own pacifism was not aggressive, but typically gentle"