Price: Symphony No. 3, The Mississippi River & Ethiopia's Shadow in America Classical Orchestral & Concertos Naxos

Price: Symphony No. 3, The Mississippi River & Ethiopia's Shadow in America

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NA 9897

Price: Symphony No. 3, The Mississippi River & Ethiopia's Shadow in America

Label Catalogue Number:
8.559897

Running Time: 01:06:33

Release Date: November 2021
Originally recorded in November 2021

Genre:
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos

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Florence Price was one of the most versatile and accomplished American musicians of her generation whose unstoppable creativity and earliest successes were set against the backdrop of 1930s economic depression. The Third Symphony expresses aspects of Price’s cultural heritage in a symphonic framework. Avoiding direct references to existing folk songs and dances, it creates highly distinctive African spiritual moods and uses the syncopated rhythms of the Juba in its jazzy third movement. This world premiere recording of Ethiopia’s Shadow in America traces the American experience of enslaved Africans, while The Mississippi River suite quotes several famous spirituals, capturing the struggles of Black migration across the United States.

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Performance **** Recording ****

“… this recording is not only inspiring but enjoyable, and not only interesting for our times but of splendid and durable quality. The ORF and Jeter provide lively, well-balanced and sympathetically played accounts, with good, clear recorded sound – a valuable addition to any library and performances that will not only help the increasing recognition this music deserves, but will be enjoyed time and again.”

Jessica Duchen – BBC Music magazine – January 2022

“Curiously conservative scores played with commitment and conviction.”

Nick Barnard – MusicWeb-International.com – 16 December 2021

“The American composer Florence Price (1887-1953) wrote music with African-American idioms, pleasing for its original and delightful melodicism… [Ethiopia’s Shadow in America] is a dramatic-emotional piece which, like all the others on this CD, is presented by John Jeter and the ORF Orchestra in excellent interpretations.” ****

Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – 9 December 2021

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