Classics VI: Portraits

Sarah Ioannides, conductor

Kristin Lee, violin

Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in A minor
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major
Elgar: Enigma Variations

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s classical compositions were influenced by traditional African music, reflecting his “Anglo-African” heritage. Bartok’s Second Violin Concerto is infused with the spirit of his native Hungarian folk music. Elgar wrote odes to the people in his life by inscribing movements in his compositions with initials that hint of their identities.