Decca & Chineke! Orchestra Release First Album In New Partnership

Chineke! Orchestra has released Coleridge-Taylor. The album features music by the celebrated African-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with an appearance by award-winning US violinist Elena Urioste, plus a world premiere recording of a work by Coleridge-Taylor’s daughter Avril Coleridge-Taylor.

Coleridge-Taylor is the first release on Chineke! Records, the newly created partnership between Decca and the Chineke! Orchestra, Europe’s first professional majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra.

The release commemorates the 110th anniversary of the composer’s death (1st September 1912). The album includes the famous Violin Concerto in G minor which was originally written for Minnie “Maud” Powell, a champion of music by African-American and female composers, first performed days after the composer’s death. // Continue to the full article

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