This is the fifth installment of Hyperion's series The Romantic Violin Concerto, highlighting the talents of soloist Anthony Marwood with orchestral backing provided by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins. It brings together two neglected English violin concerti, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 80, written for Maud Powell in 1912, and the Violin Concerto in G major written for Adila Fachiri (Jelly d'Aranyi's sister) by Arthur Somervell. In the first case, the long neglect of ...
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This is the fifth installment of Hyperion's series The Romantic Violin Concerto, highlighting the talents of soloist Anthony Marwood with orchestral backing provided by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins. It brings together two neglected English violin concerti, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 80, written for Maud Powell in 1912, and the Violin Concerto in G major written for Adila Fachiri (Jelly d'Aranyi's sister) by Arthur Somervell. In the first case, the long neglect of the work is hard to fathom; in the second instance the disregard paid by performers and public alike over the years is no less warranted, but perhaps easier to understand. Certainly, both concerti are more than welcome on disc, and this is the first time for the Somervell. Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 8, is his last major work and shows signs of not being completely worked through: the final movement, despite its bombast, drama, and sense of occasion, seems a...
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