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Anthony Marwood, Douglas Boyd - The Romantic Violin Concerto 13: Robert Schumann: Violin Concertos (2012)

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Anthony Marwood, Douglas Boyd  - The Romantic Violin Concerto 13: Robert Schumann: Violin Concertos (2012)

Anthony Marwood, Douglas Boyd, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Violin Concerto 13: Robert Schumann: Violin Concertos (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 69:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67847 | Recorded: 2009

Hyperion is pleased to present a thirteenth volume of the Romantic Violin Concerto. Although frequently featuring virtuoso showpieces by the composer–violinists of the nineteenth century, this series also includes works of great musical interest which for one reason or another have not entered the repertoire. The performance history of all three pieces recorded here is indissolubly linked with the turmoil of Schumann’s last years.

Anthony Marwood, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Violin Concerto 5: Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell: Violin Concertos (2005)

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Anthony Marwood, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Violin Concerto 5: Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell: Violin Concertos (2005)

Anthony Marwood, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Violin Concerto 5: Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell: Violin Concertos (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 319 Mb | Total time: 65:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67420 | Recorded: 2004

Born in Croydon in 1875, the son of a Sierra Leone-born doctor and English mother, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s childhood was a tough one. Yet, aged 15, he entered the Royal College of Music and studied composition with Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. The interest generated by the music of ‘this new black Mahler’ soon put him on the musical map, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast being described as ‘one of the most remarkable events in modern English musical history’. In 1904, at a time when it was still extremely hard for black Americans to fulfil their cultural aspirations, he accepted an invitation to America and found himself hailed as an iconic figure. Throughout his short life he found his role as composer complemented by one as political activist fighting against racial prejudice.

Anthony Marwood, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Violin Concerto 2: Stanford: Suite & Concerto for Violin (2000)

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Anthony Marwood, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Violin Concerto 2: Stanford: Suite & Concerto for Violin (2000)

Anthony Marwood, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - The Romantic Violin Concerto 2: Charles Villiers Stanford: Suite & Concerto for Violin (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 316 Mb | Total time: 66:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67208 | Recorded: 2000

Hyperion has brought together two fetching, large-scale pieces by Charles Villiers Stanford for its “The Romantic Violin” series. Both are mature works, written in 1888 and 1899 during Stanford’s “high noon”, when the Cambridge-based Irishman was winning acclaim at home and abroad as a leading British composer. The earlier Suite was written for his mentor, the great German violinist Joseph Joachim. It’s a piece of considerable beauty, both an homage to past musical styles and a tune-filled example of highbrow populism that repays multiple hearings. It begins with a nod to Bach’s solo violin music, and the titles of some movements (as well as their music)–such as Allemande and Tambourine–continue the Baroque-style tribute. Though longish (just shy of half-an-hour), it never overstays its welcome.

Anthony Marwood, Sharon Bezaly - Sally Beamish: Violin Concerto, Callisto, Symphony No.1 (2010)

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Anthony Marwood, Sharon Bezaly - Sally Beamish: Violin Concerto, Callisto, Symphony No.1 (2010)

Anthony Marwood, Sharon Bezaly - Sally Beamish: Violin Concerto, Callisto, Symphony No.1 (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 78:35 | 322 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-CD-1601

Britain-to-Scotland transplant Sally Beamish wasn't just self-taught as an orchestral composer: you might say she learned by doing. According to her notes on this BIS release, one of a group covering her orchestral output, she had never written an orchestral piece or even studied orchestration when the city of Reykjavik, Iceland, commissioned her Symphony No. 1 in 1994. The result was a work full of unusual sonorities, rather loosely woven but constantly surprising, that drew on various features (formal and textural, not tonal) of the music of Scotland.