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Originally recorded in November 2022
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos
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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 the20th 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 amore 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.
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“… All the performances are consistently fine, and the recorded sound is first-rate. This is a major addition to Price’s burgeoning discography, and the pair of oak-themed tone poems in particular reveals a fascinating new facet of this composer’s work.”
“… As before, Jeter turns in solid performances, and his enthusiasm for Price’s works seems palpable… I found the last works on the disc in many ways the most enjoyable. They are totally unpretentious and quite infectious… Those who collect the Naxos series need not hesitate in adding this volume.”
“Can her music not simply be allowed to speak and sing? It is here, on a fine set of recordings...under the baton of John Jeter, a champion of Price’s... there are the Concert Overtures Nos 1 and 2, the blowsy, restless — and strikingly poignant — The Oak and the swirling, almost Viennese Colonial Dance.” ****
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