Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Violin Concerto • Romance • Legend
Julius Harrison - Bredon Hill

Lorraine McAslan, violin
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.317
UPC/EAN: 5020926031723
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: DDD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 61.37
Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Recorded at Watford, 10 - 12, 20 January 1994, Producers: Andrew Keener, Oliver Rivers, Engineers: Trygg Tryggvason, Andrew Halifax


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 ...


1 Legend (Conzertstück) Op. 14 (1897) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912) 7.12
2 Romance in G Op. 39 (1899) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912) 9.35
Violin Concerto in G minor Op. 80 (1912) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912) 32.53
3 I Allegro maestoso – Vivace – Allegro molto 12.14
4 II Andante semplice – Andantino 8.33
5 III Allegro molto – Moderato 12.06
6 Bredon Hill – a rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1941) Julius Harrison (1885 - 1963) 11.54