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Composer:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Artist(s):
Philippe Graffin

Conductor:
Michael Hankinson

Background: Acclaimed violinist and prolific recording artist Philippe Graffin has scored a major coup in unearthing the Violin Concerto of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the Afro-English composer whose star has waned since the height of his fame at the turn of the last century, but is set to rise again on the strength of this world-premiere recording.

Coleridge-Taylor's musical education was as English as they come - studying at the Royal College with Stanford alongside such luminaries as Vaughan Willliams and Holst - but his most powerful influences were the folk music and poetry of African-Americans and American Indians, reinforced by his first visit to the US in 1900. References to and inspiration from spirituals and slave songs abound in the Violin Concerto, making the coupling of the Violin Concerto by Dvorak, who was equally inspired by American idioms, apt indeed.

CATALOGUE NR: AV0044
RECORD LABEL: Avie
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 22-Mar-2004

COMPOSER: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Violin Concerto in G minor op.80 (Coleridge Taylor). Violin Concerto in A minor op.53 (Dvorak).
ORCHESTRA: Johannesburg Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Michael Hankinson
ARTISTS: Philippe Graffin      

- Jun-2004 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jul-2004 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'An irresistable discovery, winningly championed by a new orchestra' - Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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