Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Violin Concerto • Romance • Legend
Lorraine McAslan, violin
Label: Lyrita
Recorded at Watford, 10 - 12, 20 January 1994, Producers: Andrew Keener, Oliver Rivers, Engineers: Trygg Tryggvason, Andrew Halifax |
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Time has dealt cruelly with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. A century ago (November 1898), his setting of Longfellow's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast began its progress round the musical world, making its composer as famous a figure as Sullivan and, at the time, more so than Delius, Vaughan Williams or Holst. But after his death at the early age of thirty-seven, his music suffered a decline in popularity, relieved only by the dramatised performances of Hiawatha given each year in the 1920s and 1930s by the Royal Choral Society ... |
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