SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR (1875-1912): Piano Trio in E Minor, Piano Quintet in G Minor, Nonet in F Minor for Piano, Strings and Wind, Op. 2 “Gradus ad Parnassum”.

Description: The three pieces recorded here were all composed during the composer’s time as a student at the Royal College of Music. They were destined to remain unpublished during his lifetime, and indeed for some ninety years following his untimely death from pneumonia at the age of only thirty-seven. Performing editions were eventually prepared from the surviving manuscripts – which had remained in the RCM’s archive – in the early 2000s, offering modern performers and audiences the chance for the first time to savor exactly how precocious the creative talents of the teenage Coleridge-Taylor had been. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.