COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Clarinet Quintet Suite de Concert, Ballad, Spirituals for piano (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

“He was very well thought of by Stanford, at the Royal College of Music; and not just out of sympathy with allowing a negro composer a hearing in London. The Clarinet Quintet (that pleased Stanford) also received approval from Joachim. It is a very agreeable quintet, most acceptably performed and recorded, and as easy on the ear as its more famous predecessors (Mozart and Brahms). Petite suite de concert: lovable music; Other of the piano music could have great appeal: especially so could the arrangements of Negro Melodies with their easygoing simplicity” (MusicWeb)

Petite Suite de Concert [11:50]
1. La Caprice de Nannette 3:21

2. Demande et Réponse 3:36

3. Un Sonnet d’Amour 2:42

4. La Tarantelle Fretillante 2:09
Virginia Eskin piano

5. Ballade in D minor (1895) 12:54
Michael Ludwig violin Virginia Eskin piano

Spirituals [18:19]
6. Take Nabandji 2:00

7. Going Up 2:46

8. Deep River 5:39

9. Run, Mary, Run 1:58

10. Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child 3:29

11. The Bamboula 2:25
Virginia Eskin piano

Clarinet Quintet in A [35:40] **
12. Allegro energico 11:54

13. Larghetto affetuoso 7:31

14. Scherzo 8:09

15. Finale 8:05
Harold Wright clarinet with the Hawthorne String Quartet