Price: Concert Overtures / Songs of the Oak / Suite of Dances
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Price: Concert Overtures / Songs of the Oak / Suite of Dances
Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, John Jeter
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 25 November 2022
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The rediscovery of Florence Price's music has revealed one of the most significant bodies of work by an African American composer in the 20th century. The variety of genres represented on this release place Price's immense artistic imagination on full display. The two Concert Overtures explore her engagement with spirituals, both episodically and coloristically, in music that embraces the somber, the poignant and the ebullient. Songs of the Oak is a tour de force of Hollywood-influenced storytelling while The Oak offers a more anxious, ultimately tragic portrait. Price's best-known work is the Suite of Dances - originally for piano it is heard here in the composer's full, sumptuous orchestration
Tracks:
Concert Overture No. 1 (1939)
(based on the spiritual Sinner,
Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass)
Concert Overture No. 2 (1943)
(based on the spirituals Go Down, Moses,
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen and
Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit) (Ending A)
Songs of the Oak (1943)
The Oak (1943)
Colonial Dance (date unknown)
