Description
“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 |
