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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 10
I. Allegro energico 0:00
II. Larghetto affetuoso - Molto espressivo 7:12
III. Scherzo: Allegro leggiero 13:02
IV. Allegro agitato - Poco più moderato - Vivace 20:03
Kelly Burke, clarinet
John Fadial, violin
Janet Orenstein, violin
Scott Rawls, viola
Brooks Whitehouse, cello
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 -1 912) was an English composer and conductor of mixed race; his mother was an English woman and his father was a Sierra Leone Creole physician. Coleridge-Taylor achieved such success that he was referred to by white New York musicians as the "African Mahler" when he had three tours of the United States in the early 1900s. He was particularly known for his three cantatas based on the epic poem, Song of Hiawatha by American Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Coleridge-Taylor premiered the first section in 1898, when he was 22. He married an Englishwoman, Jessie Walmisley, and both their children had musical careers. Their son Hiawatha adapted his father's music for a variety of performances. Their daughter Avril Coleridge-Taylor became a composer-conductor.
The tempo for the first movement embedded in the video is in error. It has been corrected in the descriprion.