Price: Songs of the Oak - Orchestral Works / Jeter, Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen

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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 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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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.

-- WFMT 98.7FM Chicago, IL (Lisa Flynn)



Product Description:


  • Release Date: November 18, 2022


  • Catalog Number: 8559920


  • UPC: 636943992029


  • Label: Naxos


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Period: 20th Century


  • Composer: Florence Price


  • Conductor: John Jeter


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen



Works:


  1. Concert Overture No. 1 on Spiritual, "Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass"

    Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

    Ensemble: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen

    Conductor: John Jeter


  2. Concert Overture No. 2

    Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

    Ensemble: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen

    Conductor: John Jeter


  3. Songs of the Oak

    Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

    Ensemble: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen

    Conductor: John Jeter


  4. The Oak

    Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

    Ensemble: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen

    Conductor: John Jeter


  5. Colonial Dance

    Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

    Ensemble: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen

    Conductor: John Jeter


  6. Suite of Dances

    Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

    Ensemble: Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen

    Conductor: John Jeter