Bridge Records
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios (Bridge Records)
Performance that are as sparkling as they are wise [DMD]
Stuyvesant String Quartet: In Concert at the Library of Congress (Bridge Records)
A splendid American string quartet caught on the wing in concert in 1946 [JW]
Scriabin: Piano Sonatas No 2-4 & other piano works (Bridge Records)
The cream of Scriabin’s early sonatas and a handful of miniatures in strong performances [RCh]
Paris, La Belle Époque (Bridge Records)
Playing of the highest quality in an intriguing and very rewarding programme [GPu]
Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Colourful, saturated, brittle, heavily rhythmic, laced with ostinato and swooning strings [JW]
Ginastera: Orchestral music (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Saturated in swaying delicacy: lyricism with a capital L, voluptuous and unmistakable [JW]
Mozart: Piano Concertos (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Excellent retrieval work from Bridge, whose commitment to Balsam has been of long standing and great worth [JW]
Karchin: Keyboards/Winds (Bridge Records)
A rewarding sampler of work by a consistently interesting composer, uniformly well-played and recorded [GPu]
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios (Bridge Records)
Excellent performances, engaging and rewarding [SG]
Red Maple – Music for Bassoon & Strings (Bridge Records)
A collection of fine works for the unusual combination of bassoon and strings [GPJ]
Dello Joio J: Piano Concerto (Bridge Records)
Impressive performances of three diverse and serious works [NB]
Beethoven: Middle Quartets (Bridge Records)
(Déjà Review) An invaluable addition in excellent sound, splendid documentation and full of concentrated wisdom [JW]
Carter: The Music of Elliot Carter Vol. 5 (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Displays all Carter’s life-affirming complexity [JW]
A Left Coast (Bridge)
A valuable addition to the song repertoire, performed with deep involvement, though with some vocal issues [GF]
Clara Rockmore’s Lost Theremin Album (Bridge)
An affectionate tribute and mostly a pleasure that these recordings been set free [RB]
Regondi: A 200th Birthday Bouquet (Bridge Records)
Virtuosic renditions of past gems [ZT]
Classics of American Romanticism (Bridge Records)
Intriguing early American symphonies in convincing performances [NB]
Regondi: A 200th Birthday Bouquet (Bridge)
A must-buy for all lovers of guitar music [GF]
Bristow & Fry: Symphonies (Bridge)
Early American romanticism – golden-age verve rather than dutiful museum revival [RB]
The Stuyvesant String Quartet (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) A worthy salute to a fine quartet [JW]
Matiegka: Sonatas for Guitar (Bridge)
An outstanding, indeed revelatory recording which makes an irresistible case for Matiegka’s sonatas [GPu]
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