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Beulah quoted
"These
are careful transfers which make the most of the material, whereas I
suspect that some others just stick an LP or 78s on the turntable and
give us what comes out the other end. Beulah’s results are comparable
with the fine transfers which Naxos Historical offer. " Brian
Wilson at Music Web International
"The
Beulah
record label has always been one of the most idiosyncratic, and
therefore perhaps most interesting, of reissue marques. While the basic
character of Beulah remains the same as in its Compact Disc days, the
range of its present catalogue, driven now by the ease of downloading,
has been extended in remarkable fashion. Browsing the Beulah catalogue
is now rather like being in a 78rpm record shop: there are plenty of
recordings of short pieces available to whet your appetite for either
repertoire or artist, while at the same time there are numerous full
length works available if you wish to consolidate your collection with,
for instance, major symphonies. All of Beulah's transfers, as might be
expected of a distinguished reissue label, are of very high quality."
David Patmore writing in Classical
Recordings Quarterly
"Beulah
releases are available from other
suppliers but  ; offer them in
lossless sound for the same price
that others charge for mp3 – in some cases that’s less than full
bit-rate
mp3." Brian
Wilson at Music Web International
Many music lovers miss the sound
from vinyl pressings.
Many others have yet to discover how great the sound can be.
Most of our albums are mastered from vinyl LP pressings and earlier
recordings (generally before 1953) from 78 rpm discs. It is our ability
to
recreate, in the digital age, the sound from the disc era that many of
our customers find most enjoyable.
Unlike modern digital recordings
tracks in our
albums do contain some distortion, and the occasional surface noises,
but for many listeners these "defects" are soon forgotten.
Our albums are available from
many download and
streaming sites.
We highly recommending streaming
at where you can download or stream in high quality.
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Samuel Coleridge Taylor 1875-1912
A working class boy from Croydon, Surrey, England who
had made a name for himself as a composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
(1875-1912) was born of a father from Sierra Leone and an English
(white) mother. His father having gained a doctorate returned to Africa
leaving his wife to cope with their baby son. She married a Welsh
railway worker in Croydon and young Samuel grew up with the Evans
family.
His talent for the violin was spotted by a local music
teacher and with financial support from a church minister he went to
London's Royal College of Music. While still a student he had a great
success with a choral work Hiawatha's Wedding Feast (1898).
The publicity surrounding Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
created a huge demand for tours both within the United Kingdom and
abroad. Among the most important for the composer's career were three
tours of North America in 1904, 1906 and 1910.
About the time he wrote the first part of his Hiawatha
trilogy Samuel began collaborating with the African American poet and
author Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906). Roanne Edwards writing in
Africana Encyclopedia, says of Coleridge-Taylor: "He was also a leading
exponent of Pan-Africanism, which emphasised the importance of a shared
African heritage as the touchstone of black cultural identity." In the
foreword to the 1969 edition of Sayers', Samuel Coleridge-Taylor,
Musician, His Life and Letters, Blydon Jackson writes:
"American Negroes who were born in the earlier years of this century
grew up in black communities where the name of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
was as well known then as now are such names as Martin Luther King, Jr.
and Malcolm X.... Gentle as he was in manner, refined as was his
calling, he was still a fierce apostle of human liberty and a crusader
for the rights of man. He was a parable for the black consciousness of
our present time.”
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