New on Avie: Three world-premiere recordings of works by Coleridge-Taylor – currently on sale from Europadisc (https://www.europadisc.co.uk/classical/245798/Coleridge-Taylor_-_Toussaint_L'Ouverture,_Ballade,_Suites_from_'24_Negro_Melodies'.htm):
Toussaint L'Ouverture, Ballade for Violin and Orchestra, Suites from '24 Negro Melodies'.
Excerpts here:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9781559--samuel-coleridge-taylor-toussaint-louverture-ballade-op-4-suites-from-24-negro-melodies
Europadisc also have excerpts, they are just slightly more 'hidden'and perhaps shorter? ...
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Erm, Op.59 is not a premiere (at least, as a work. Is this the composer's own arrangement? If not, ...). Maybe the other two are. (The Ballade Op.4 apparently has been recorded with piano accompaniment by Virginia Eskin and Michael Ludwig back in 1992 on Koch, but at least this here's the composer's original form :) )
It would not be the first time a false claim was made that a recording was a premiere. I didn't bother to check...
They seem not to have been recorded before in these forms, far as I can tell, so actually it looks like they might be right.
Quote from: Wheesht on Friday 01 August 2025, 16:36scroll down to Sound/Video
I do apologise. I hadn't notice those excerpts. Thanks for pointing them out.