Sunday, April 13, 2008

Nash Ensemble Plays Clarinet Quintet of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at BBC Proms 2008

[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet (35:39); Koch 3 7056 2H1 (1992)]

BBC Proms 2008 – a Festival Spirit - Full Event Listing

April 10, 2008

The BBC Proms, one of the world’s greatest music festivals, celebrates key anniversaries of four major composers in 2008 – 50 years since the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the centenaries of both Olivier Messiaen and Elliott Carter and the 80th anniversary of Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Proms Chamber Music
Other highlights include early music groups I Fagiolini and Les Talens Lyriques, bass viol/viola da gamba player Jordi Savall, as well as a performance by one of Britain’s leading chamber groups, the Nash Ensemble, of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet and Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge. Full Post

[The Afro-British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is profiled at AfriClassical.com]







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