Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Ballade Op. 4, Suites from "24 Negro Melodies" CD

Michael Repper leads the National Philharmonic in a celebration of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – an album of world-premiere recordings commemorating the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The program features new performance editions of Toussaint L’Ouverture, Ballade in D minor, Op. 4, and the Suite from 24 Negro Melodies. Grammy-nominated violinist Curtis Stewart is featured in the Ballade and in his own arrangements of three of Coleridge-Taylor’s 24 Negro Melodies.