The Nice - Five Bridges Suite 96-24 Vinyl Rip
Charisma CAS 1014 A4//112 & B4//116
Transfered by Sgt Weatherman
Sony PS-T22 turntable
Grado Black Cartridge
Aiwa A60 Amp
ASUS Xonar DS Audio Card
Recorded with Wavlab 6, channel balanced & de-clicked using Wave Corrector Professional
converted to FLAC (level 8) with traders Little helper. Files tagged with Tag & rename
This is an old album I picked up at a very cheap price a while back there is the occasional click but they are few and far between
Worth a listen if your into early ELP
The work was commissioned for the Newcastle Arts Festival and premiered with a full orchestra conducted by Joseph Eger on October 10, 1969 (the recorded version is from October 17 in Croydon's Fairfield Halls). The title refers to the city's five bridges spanning the River Tyne (two more have since been built over the river), and the album cover features an image of the Tyne Bridge.
The five movements are:
Fantasia - orchestra with solo piano interludes by Keith Emerson
Second Bridge - trio without orchestra
Chorale - Lee Jackson's vocals with orchestra, alternating with piano trio interludes
High Level Fugue - piano with accompanying cymbals
Finale - a restating of the Second Bridge with additional jazz horn players.
The most elaborate orchestral writing is the Fantasia, but even this is fairly rudimentary, which is understandable as it was Emerson's first foray into this medium. Emerson credits Friedrich Gulda for inspiring the High Level Fugue, which uses jazz figures in the strict classical form. Individually, the movements are not worthy of special notice, but the suite as a whole is remarkable for its successful integration of the disparate materials. The ambitious nature of the production is also laudable - the entire suite was recorded at a concert performance and meetings of pop groups and orchestras were not at all commonplace.
Also included on the Five Bridges album were live performances from the same Fairfield Hall concert of the Sibelius Intermezzo and a movement from Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony. Both involved the orchestra playing the "straight" music juxtaposed with the trio's interpretations. Newly discovered material from this concert was later issued as part of a 3-CD set entitled Here Come The Nice.
The Five Bridges album also included a blending of Bob Dylan's Country Pie with Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 (with a quote of Coleman Hawkins' jazz line Rifftide as well) and a studio recording of the original One of Those People.
Side one
1."The Five Bridges Suite" (Emerson, Jackson)
"Fantasia 1st Bridge"
"2nd Bridge"
"Chorale 3rd Bridge"
"High Level Fugue 4th Bridge"
"Finale 5th Bridge"
Side two
1."Intermezzo 'Karelia Suite'" (Sibelius)
2."Pathetique (Symphony No. 6, 3rd Movement)" (Tchaikovsky, Arr. Emerson, Joseph Eger)
3."Country Pie/Brandenburg Concerto No. 6" (Bob Dylan, Johann Sebastian Bach)
4."One Of Those People" (Emerson/Jackson)
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