This is the fifth installment of Hyperion's series The Romantic Violin Concerto, highlighting the talents of soloist Anthony Marwood with orchestral backing provided by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins. It brings together two neglected English violin concerti, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 80, ...
The Piano Quintet here might well be by Brahms and the Clarinet Quintet could as easily be by Dvorák. But when you think about it, could there possibly be any higher compliments one could pay to a late nineteenth century composer, especially to a young composer of mixed race from London? Samuel Coleridge-Taylor fully deserves those compliments and ...
In the brief 37 years given to him, English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor produced an impressive wealth of entries in the category of chamber music, although you'd never know it from the extent to which it has been recorded. Centaur Records steps into the breach with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Chamber Music, which is performed by a loose ...
African-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who died at the age of 37 in 1912, was known during his lifetime mostly for big choral pieces that were favorites on both sides of the Atlantic (African-Americans called him the "black Mahler"), but are of a type not so beloved these days. Recent years have seen a rediscovery of his smaller works, ...
History has been unfair to the works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, but this belated premiere recording of his Violin Concerto in G minor -- intended to redress the neglect -- may inadvertently give the impression that this composer's music cannot stand on its own without bolstering comparisons to works by his greater contemporaries. Pairing this ...
Taken one piece at a time, the five works on this disc entitled Box of Delights, a collection of British light music, are utterly charming. More than one at a time, however, and the listener is likely to get the aural equivalent of a toothache. With the masterful but slightly sentimental conducting of Barry Wordsworth and the polished though ...
Cellist Joseph Spooner has devoted a significant amount of his career and discography to the discovery and performance of unknown works in the repertoire. There comes a point, however, when listeners must start asking if a composition is too obscure, too unknown, or too forgotten. The program chosen for this Dutton Digital album certainly begs ...
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