Black History Month
Lasting throughout the month of February, ArkivMusic’s Black History Month campaign has great deals on standout recordings, featured below, from noted black composers and artists, including Florence B. Price, Scott Joplin, Anthony McGill, Will Liverman, Margaret Bonds, and more!
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![Because - Songs & Spirituals / Mobley, Trotignon]()
On SaleBecause - Songs & Spirituals / Mobley, Trotignon$13.99 Regular price
$20.99During the long era when Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were creating the musical canon of Western Europe, the songs of enslaved Africans resounded in the colonies on the other side of the Atlantic, expressing pain...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 26, 2023
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![Difficult Grace / Seth Parker Woods]()
On SaleDifficult Grace / Seth Parker Woods$12.99 Regular price
$19.99Difficult Grace, based on GRAMMY Award-nominated cellist Seth Parker Woods’ multimedia concert tour de force, conceived by and featuring Woods in the triple role of cellist, narrator/guide, and movement artist, is Woods’ debut album for...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 14, 2023
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![Forgotten Voices - A Song Cycle for Voices & Strings / Kelly Hall-Tompkins]()
On SaleForgotten Voices - A Song Cycle for Voices & Strings / Kelly Hall-Tompkins$12.99 Regular price
$19.99Multi-award-winning violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins is the entrepreneurial spirit behind Music Kitchen, the pioneering project that brings top classical music and musicians into homeless shelters, sharing the inspirational, therapeutic, and uplifting power of music with those...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 10, 2023
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![Elfman: Violin Concerto - Hailstork: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Cameron, Goodyear, Falletta]()
On SaleElfman: Violin Concerto - Hailstork: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Cameron, Goodyear, Falletta$12.99 Regular price
$19.99This recording presents brand new concertos from two vibrant and contrasting American composers. Adolphus Hailstork’s First Piano Concerto draws on his African American heritage to create a work brimming with energy and high spirits. The...
Format: CD
Release Date: March 10, 2023
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![Saint-Georges: L'Amant Anonyme / Haymarket Opera Company]()
On SaleSaint-Georges: L'Amant Anonyme / Haymarket Opera Company$18.99 Regular price
$29.99Haymarket Opera, Chicago’s premier early opera company that presents historically informed performances played on 18th-century classical era instruments, performs on this world-premiere recording of L’Amant Anonyme (The Anonymous Lover) by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 10, 2023
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![Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements / Christopher Mallett]()
On SaleHolland: Guitar Works & Arrangements / Christopher Mallett$12.99 Regular price
$19.99Justin Holland was an important African American figure in the national US anti-slavery movement as well as being a significant figure in guitar composition and methodology. As a composer he synthesized European models and embraced...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 10, 2023
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![Walker & Dawson: Orchestral Works / Cabell, Cox, Fisch, Seattle Symphony]()
On SaleWalker & Dawson: Orchestral Works / Cabell, Cox, Fisch, Seattle Symphony$11.99 Regular price
$18.99The Seattle Symphony releases powerful live performances of works by two brilliant American composers, William L. Dawson and Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker. These deeply expressive scores — recorded in the stunning acoustics of Benaroya...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 10, 2023
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![Bonds: Credo; Simon Bore the Cross / Merriweather, Dessoff Orchestra]()
On SaleBonds: Credo; Simon Bore the Cross / Merriweather, Dessoff Orchestra$12.99 Regular price
$19.99New York City-based The Dessoff Choirs, instrumental in re-establishing the music of 20th-century African American composer Margaret Bonds with the world-premiere recording of her Christmas oratorio, The Ballad of the Brown King, present two more...
Format: CD
Release Date: February 03, 2023
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![Price: Songs of the Oak - Orchestral Works / Jeter, Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen]()
On SalePrice: Songs of the Oak - Orchestral Works / Jeter, Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen$12.99 Regular price
$19.99The 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...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 18, 2022
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![American Stories / McGill, Pacifica Quartet]()
On SaleAmerican Stories / McGill, Pacifica Quartet$12.99 Regular price
$19.99Anthony McGill, New York Philharmonic principal clarinet and 2020 Avery Fisher Prize winner, and the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet join forces on an album illuminating the diversity of the American experience through works by...
Format: CD
Release Date: November 11, 2022
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![Mozart: Concertos for Flute, Violin & Piano / Gudim, Olech, Kanneh-Mason et al.]()
On SaleMozart: Concertos for Flute, Violin & Piano / Gudim, Olech, Kanneh-Mason et al.$13.99 Regular price
$20.99The Orpheum Foundation, which has been supporting young musicians for over thirty years, has joined forces with Alpha Classics for a series of recordings devoted to Mozart’s concertos, regardless of instrument. The leading soloists of...
Format: CD
Release Date: October 28, 2022
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![African American Voices / Gray, Royal Scottish National Orchestra]()
On SaleAfrican American Voices / Gray, Royal Scottish National Orchestra$13.99 Regular price
$20.99The Royal Scottish National Orchestra teams up with its Assistant Conductor Kellen Gray to record works by three of the twentieth century’s greatest African American voices. Released to coincide with Black History Month, the two...
Format: CD
Release Date: October 28, 2022
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![Violin Concertos by Black Composers - 25th Anniversary / Rachel Barton Pine]()
On SaleViolin Concertos by Black Composers - 25th Anniversary / Rachel Barton Pine$12.99 Regular price
$19.99American violinist Rachel Barton Pine marks the 25th anniversary of her 1997 recording of violin concertos by Black composers of the 18th and 19th centuries with Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries. This...
Format: CD
Release Date: September 09, 2022
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![Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet / Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective]()
On SaleColeridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio, Piano Quintet / Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective$14.99 Regular price
$22.99Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is best known for his cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, which brought him international success as well as propelling his career at home in the UK – success which was remarkable in stuffy late-Victorian...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 17, 2022
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![Still: Summerland - Orchestral Works / Schiff, Eisenberg, RSNO]()
On SaleStill: Summerland - Orchestral Works / Schiff, Eisenberg, RSNO$12.99 Regular price
$19.99All World Premiere Recordings! Featured in the New York Times' "5 Classical Albums You Can Listen to Right Now" William Grant Still, the “Dean of Afro-American Composers,” was part of the Harlem Renaissance and wrote...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 27, 2022
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