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
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.