Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is profiled at
AfriClassical.com,
which features a comprehensive Works List and a Bibliography by Prof.
Dominique-René de Lerma,
www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation
Website: www.sctf.org.uk
Music review: Richmond Symphony Summer Series 'The Flower of England'
By CLARKE BUSTARD Special correspondent
The Richmond Symphony Summer Series’
fourth season, “The Flower of England: From the Empire Through the
Wars,” exploring the fertile but largely unfamiliar terrain of
late-romantic and modern British chamber music, opened with one of the
series’ few brand-name selections, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “The Lark
Ascending.”
Violinist Adrian
Pintea and pianist Russell Wilson played the chamber arrangement of
this bittersweet, impressionistic tone poem, written shortly before the
outbreak of World War I and usually heard in its later,
violin-and-orchestra incarnation.
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Wilson took a solo turn in the “Petite suite de concert” of Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor, an Edwardian-era composer whose Afro-British ancestry
would be hard to detect in this set of decorous miniatures. The pianist
made the most of the plentiful filagree of “La caprice de Nanette” and
“La tarantelle frétillante,” saving his most expressive playing for the
quasi-waltz “Demande et réponse.”
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