Heart & Hereafter - Songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | Erica Jeal's classical album of the week

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Elizabeth Llewellyn/Simon Lepper
(Orchid Classics)
The soprano’s debut, singing 25 songs by the mixed-race Victorian composer, is a delight – she and pianist Lepper really mine their essence

“I could have recorded some Puccini or Verdi”, writes Elizabeth Llewellyn – and that would have been the obvious choice for the debut recital recording from a soprano so much at home on the operatic stage. Instead, she and the pianist Simon Lepper give us 25 little discoveries, songs from the extensive but little-known output of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

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