BaL 10.06.17 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor recordings

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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Building a Library: Ivan Hewett and Andrew survey recordings of the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. He was born in 1875 in Holborn, London, and was of mixed European and African descent. He studied composition under Charles Villiers Stanford and was later helped by Edward Elgar. Coleridge-Taylor sought to do for traditional African music what Brahms did for Hungarian music and Dvořák for Bohemian music. He died at 37 of pneumonia, probably made worse by the stress of his financial situation. His most famous work is Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. But there are many other discoveries to be made.



Recommended recording:

Scenes from the Song of Hiawatha
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: The Song of Hiawatha
Helen Field (soprano), Arthur Davies (tenor), Bryn Terfel (baritone), Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)
ARGO 4303562
(Download only)



Other recommended recordings:

Below is a shortlist of other recordings which Ivan also liked, although we can’t guarantee the availability of these discs.

Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet & Clarinet Quintet
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 1 (1893); Ballade in C minor for violin and piano Op. 73 (1907); Clarinet Quintet in F sharp minor Op. 10 (1895)
The Nash Ensemble
HYPERION CDA67590 (CD)



The Romantic Violin Concerto 5 - Coleridge-Taylor & Somervell
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Violin Concerto in G minor Op. 80
SOMERVELL: Violin Concerto in G minor
Anthony Marwood (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67420 (CD)



Coleridge-Taylor: Undiscovered Piano Works
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Cameos Op. 56; Valse-Suite Op. 71; Forest Scenes Op. 66; Moorish Dance Op. 55
Waka Hasegawa (piano)
NAXOS MR1301 (CD)

[Pulcinella]

Here's a link to the works available according to Presto:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/c/Coleridge-Taylor

[Barbirollians]

The McAslan version of the Violin Concerto is very good - a lot more interesting than the Marwood

[Pabmusic]

Colerdge Taylor is not (and never was) hyphenated.

[Barbirollians]

Colerdge Taylor is not (and never was) hyphenated.

Interesting Pabs as his name is hyphenated on both the Lyrita and Hyperion CDs I have referred to above .

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Interesting Pabs as his name is hyphenated on both the Lyrita and Hyperion CDs I have referred to above .

"Accoring to Wiki" (ommmm) The young man later used the name "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor", with a hyphen, said to be following a printer's typographical error - but his father was simply "Taylor" and "Coleridge" was his middle name (just as the poet was the son of Mr Coleridge, and his middle name Taylor).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in 1875 in Holborn, London, to Alice Hare Martin (1856–1953),[2] an English woman, and Dr. Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor, a Creole from Sierra Leone, of mixed European and African descent. They were not married, Alice Hare Martin herself being an illegitimate child.[3] Daniel Taylor returned to Africa by February 1875 and did not know that he had a son born in London. Alice Martin named her son Samuel Coleridge Taylor[4] after the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge[4] and his mother and grandfather called the boy Coleridge Taylor.[5]

Taylor was brought up in Croydon, Surrey by his mother and her father Benjamin Holmans. Martin's brother was a professional musician. Taylor studied the violin at the Royal College of Music and composition under Charles Villiers Stanford. He also taught, soon being appointed a professor at the Crystal Palace School of Music; and conducted the orchestra at the Croydon Conservatoire.

The young man later used the name "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor", with a hyphen, said to be following a printer's typographical error.[6] His father Daniel Taylor was later appointed as coroner for the British Empire in the Gambia in the late 1890s.

So Pabs was right, but so was I (and the Radio 3 website).

[Pabmusic]

So Pabs was right, but so was I (and the Radio 3 website).

This has not been the most important point I've ever tried to make.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So Pabs was right, but so was I (and the Radio 3 website).

Wasn't that one of the arias from last week's BaL?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Wasn't that one of the arias from last week's BaL?

[BBMmk2]

I rather like The Nash Ensembles recording(Hyperion again!), of his chamber music

[EdgeleyRob]

I rather like The Nash Ensembles recording(Hyperion again!), of his chamber music

Me too,lovely cover

[pastoralguy]

Even if I don't agree with either the result or style of presentation of BaL, it often acts as a springboard to investigating a particular composer's work.

[pastoralguy]

Me too,lovely cover

Isn't it!

[secondfiddle]

In the book of reminiscences by Coleridge-Taylor's wife 'Genius and Musician', not only is his name printed throughout with a hyphen but his wife initials her name with a hyphen. I haven't read through it, though, to see if she makes any comment on the hyphen.