Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a complete works list by Dr. Dominique-Rene de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com
Chandos CHAN 10879 (2015)
October 22, 2015Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s
Concerto dates from 1912, the year of his premature death, and more
than a decade after he had earned the undying gratitude of choral
societies around the country with his cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast.
It’s a patchy but striking work – with echoes of Elgar and (in the slow
movement) even Puccini, as well as the more predictable Dvořák – which
probably deserves to be heard more often than it is. I’m not sure the
same can be said for Haydn Wood’s
1928 Concerto, with its overblown medley of hand-me-down romantic
styles – a bit of brash Rachmaninov here, a mellow Elgarian tune there –
though as always Little and Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic try
hard to make it all seem convincing.
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