Tasmin Little plays British Violin Concertos

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Besides the stellar quality of Little's playing (as ever, warmly engaging and technically bombproof), Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic provide accompaniments in a special class. The... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Oct 2015
Catalogue No: CHAN10879
Label: Chandos
Length: 77 minutes

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Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto in G minor Op. 80

Work length32:03

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Tasmin Little, Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Philharmonic
Recorded: 1-3 May 2015
Recording Venue: MediaCityUK, Salford, UK

I. Allegro maestoso

Track length11:35

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II. Andante semplice

Track length9:19

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III. Allegro molto

Track length11:09

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Delius: Suite for Violin & Orchestra

Work length18:43

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Tasmin Little, Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Philharmonic
Recorded: 1-3 May 2015
Recording Venue: MediaCityUK, Salford, UK

I. Pastorale. Andante quasi Allegretto

Track length5:38

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II. Intermezzo. Allegro molto vivace

Track length3:04

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III. Élégie. Adagio cantabile

Track length5:20

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IV. Finale. Allegro animato

Track length4:41

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Wood, Haydn: Violin Concerto in A minor

Work length26:54

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Tasmin Little, Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Philharmonic
Recorded: 1-3 May 2015
Recording Venue: MediaCityUK, Salford, UK

I. Allegro moderato

Track length11:31

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II. Andante sostenuto

Track length8:17

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III. Finale. Allegro giocoso

Track length7:06

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Following on from the acclaimed Elgar and Moeran concertos, Tasmin Little and Sir Andrew Davis continue their special affinity for British music with this exciting new recording featuring the music of Coleridge-Taylor, Wood, and Delius.

Born in England of an English mother and a Sierra Leonean father, Coleridge-Taylor was much revered as a composer, dubbed ‘the black Mahler’ in the US in his later years. He was commissioned to write a violin concerto in 1910 for the Norfolk Festival in Connecticut and responded with a work based on several spirituals. After submitting it, he decided to completely rewrite it, concluding that the new one was ‘ten thousand times better than the other’. The premiere in 1912 – delayed because scores had gone astray – met with critical acclaim. The composer died a few months later. Like his predecessor Coleridge-Taylor, Haydn Wood studied violin at the Royal College of Music and composition with Sir Charles Stanford. This concerto is his only surviving one for violin. The high-romantic expression of the first movement is followed by a virtually continuous stream of lyrical melody in the second, and a full-blooded finale that at the same time is light and lively.

This album also features a Suite of four short character pieces by Delius, in the spirit of the Lyric Pieces for piano by his friend and mentor Edvard Grieg.

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February 2016

Besides the stellar quality of Little's playing (as ever, warmly engaging and technically bombproof), Sir Andrew Davis and the BBC Philharmonic provide accompaniments in a special class. The slow movements of Wood's Concerto opens with a long theme for the principal horn, delivered here with spellbinding loveliness

22nd October 2015

[The Delius is] an odd mix of movements, three looking forward to the music that would come a few years later while the fourth seems to have strayed in from from some forgotten work by Mendelssohn or Max Bruch. Little pays it just as much careful attention as the other two equally unfamiliar works on her disc.

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