Bridge

Frank Bridge's exploratory late chamber works can sound reticent, elusive in performance. Not here: fire, drama and intense fantasy abound, but there's no lack of refined control or shaping... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Boasting strikingly truthful sound and balance, this is an enjoyable release, and I look forward to hearing more from this talented young ensemble. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2023 More…

Helen Callus, a viola-player with exceptionally warm tone and perfect intonation, here offers a miscellany of transcriptions. A fine collection, superbly performed, very well recorded and sensitively... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2007 More…

Frank Bridge's two piano trios make a natural coupling. The 1907 Phantasie Trio is a prime example of the ruggedly mellifluous chamber style of his early years… The much larger Trio No. 2... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Bridge’s Phantasie in C minor and Ireland’s Phantasie in A minor, were solidly in the latter form — and also decidedly late Romantic. Still, they are played with a rare richness and depth. — Sunday Times, 3rd August 2014 More…