Price: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Piano Concerto in One Movement in D minor & Dances in the Canebrakes
6/27/2025, 10 Tracks, 1:14:03
Featuring
Fanny Clamagirand
John Jeter
Han Chen
Malmö Opera Orchestra
Florence Beatrice Price
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Instruments
Fanny Clamagirand, the violinist on this recording, plays a 1700 Matteo Goffriller violin.
Composer Biography
Price attended Boston's New England Conservatory, graduating with diplomas in organ performance and piano pedagogy after only three years.
Composer Biography
By the time of her death in 1953, Price had written nearly 400 individual pieces in practically every classical genre but opera, as well as numerous commercial songs.
Composer Biography
Florence Beatrice Price, a pianist, organist, composer, and teacher, was born into a prominent African American family in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Price's first violin concerto exhibits 'Black classical formalism,' an aesthetic blending Western classical traditions with conscious deviations from them.
Historical Context
Increasing racist violence compelled Florence Price and her family to flee Little Rock in 1927 for Chicago, where she pursued additional instruction in compositional skills.
Compositional Technique
The 'Dances in the Canebrakes,' originally for solo piano and orchestrated by William Grant Still, evoke 19th-century African American life.
