Wood, Coleridge-Taylor & Delius: Music for Violin & Orchestra
11/13/2017, 10 Tracks, 1:17:50
Featuring
Sir Andrew Davis
Tasmin Little
BBC Philharmonic
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Frederick Delius
Haydn Wood
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Composer Biography
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, born in London, was the child of a medical student from Sierra Leone and an English girl.
Performer Biography
Tasmin Little, the violinist on this recording, plays a violin made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in 1757.
Notable Performances
The premiere of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto faced a last-minute hitch because the score and orchestral parts failed to arrive, though not, as once believed, because they were on the Titanic.
Composer Biography
Frederick Delius, though born in Yorkshire, spent most of his life on the European mainland and studied violin and composition in Leipzig.
Critical Reception
Haydn Wood's Violin Concerto, premiered in 1933, saw several broadcasts in the 1930s before his conservative romanticism fell out of fashion.
Composition History
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto was a replacement for an earlier version, which he urged to be destroyed because he felt the use of native melodies tied him down.
Recording & Production
This Chandos recording uses 24-bit / 96 kHz technology, which provides a dynamic range up to 48 dB greater and 256 times the resolution of standard 16-bit recordings.
