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Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
CD1:
- Othello, Op. 79
- Avril Coleridge-Taylor - Sussex Landscape, Op. 27
- African Suite, Op. 35 (orch. Chris Cameron)
- Ballade in A Minor, Op. 33
CD2:
- Petite Suite de Concert, Op. 77
- Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 80
- Romance for Violin, Op. 39
- Nonet, Op. 2
Elena Urioste, violin
Chineke! Orchestra & Chamber Ensemble
Fawzi Haimor, Roderick Cox, Kevin John Edusei, Kalena Bovell & Anthony Parnther, conductors
Date: 2022
Label: Decca
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), half English, half Sierra Leonean, is a symbolic figurehead for Chineke!, the UK’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra. The composer, who won high praise from Elgar and Stanford, could have become a towering and transformative figure, but worked himself to death in Croydon aged only 37, having sold his enormously successful oratorio The Song of Hiawatha to his publisher outright for a pittance.
Chineke! here presents one of the biggest and best collections of his music yet released. At its heart is the heavenly Violin Concerto; Elena Urioste and the orchestra under Kevin John Edusei give a wonderful performance full of fiery spirit and delicacy. Several more fine conductors are represented: Kalena Bovell for the Ballade, effectively Chineke!’s signature work; and respectively Anthony Parnther and Fawzi Haimor in the Petite Suite de Concert and incidental music to Othello, while Edusei tackles the African Suite. These suites are melodically rich and unfailingly engaging – as is the early Nonet, here receiving its second recording release in eight months but fully deserving the attention. Even if Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective’s recording is the more polished, Chineke!’s – its players regrettably unnamed in the credits – can win us over with its passion and flair.
The most unusual work is by Coleridge-Taylor’s daughter, Avril: the world-premiere recording of her tone poem Sussex Landscape, which sounds much impacted by Vaughan Williams, but has an elegiac undertow all its own. Recorded sound is very good, though acoustics vary between the different locations of the performances, several of which are live.
-- Jessica Duchen, BBC Music Magazine
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was an English composer of Sierra Leone Creole descent who achieved such success that he was once called the "African Mahler" by New York musicians. He was particularly known for his three cantatas based on the epic poem, Song of Hiawatha. Coleridge-Taylor also composed chamber music, anthems, and the African Dances for violin, among other works. The Petite Suite de Concert is still regularly played. Coleridge-Taylor was greatly admired by African Americans, with public schools were named after him in Louisville and Baltimore.
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Chineke! Foundation was founded in 2015 by the double bass player, Chi-chi Nwanoku, to provide career opportunities for Black and ethnically diverse classical musicians in the UK and Europe. The Chineke! Orchestra, the Foundation’s flagship ensemble, made its BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall in 2017, and performed at many other leading festivals throughout Europe, all to great critical acclaim. The ensemble has released five CDs to date, and is currently a Resident Orchestra at the Southbank Centre. The Chineke! Ensemble comprises the principal players of the Chineke! Orchestra.
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