Price: Choral Works

$19.99
Label
Naxos
Release Date
August 8, 2025
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Florence Beatrice Price
    • PERFORMER
      Sara Swietlicki, Lindsay Grace Johnson, Jonas Samuelsson, Malmo Opera Chorus, Malmo Opera Orchestra
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 08, 2025
    • UPC
      636943995129
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559951
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Introduction: A bronzed, lank man! (Soprano) - Overture

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Sara Swietlicki, Robert Bennesh

      Conductor: John Jeter

    2. No. 1. It Is Portentous (Chorus)

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Robert Bennesh

      Conductor: John Jeter

    3. No. 2. Until the Dawn-Stars Burn Away (Soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Sara Swietlicki, Jan Karlsson Korp, Robert Bennesh

      Conductor: John Jeter

    4. No. 3. He Cannot Sleep (Soprano)

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Sara Swietlicki, Robert Bennesh

      Conductor: John Jeter

    5. No. 4. His Head is Bowed (Chorus)

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Robert Bennesh

      Conductor: John Jeter

    6. No. 5. He Cannot Rest Until a Spirit-Dawn Shall Come (Chorus)

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Robert Bennesh

      Conductor: John Jeter

    7. No. 6. Finale: It breaks his heart that kings must murder still (Chorus)

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Robert Bennesh

      Conductor: John Jeter

    8. Song of Hope (version for chorus and orchestra)

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Sara Swietlicki, Lindsay Grace Johnson, Jonas Samuelsson, Robert Bennesh

      Conductor: John Jeter

    9. Weathers

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus

      Performer: Jan Karlsson Korp

      Conductor: John Jeter

    10. Poem of Praise

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus

      Performer: Jan Karlsson Korp

      Conductor: John Jeter

    11. Praise the Lord (Psalm 117)

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus

      Performer: Jan Karlsson Korp

      Conductor: John Jeter

    12. Wander-Thirst

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus

      Performer: Jan Karlsson Korp

      Conductor: John Jeter

    13. Summer Clouds

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus

      Performer: Jan Karlsson Korp

      Conductor: John Jeter

    14. Song for Snow

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus

      Performer: Jan Karlsson Korp

      Conductor: John Jeter

    15. The Witch of the Meadow

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus

      Performer: Jan Karlsson Korp

      Conductor: John Jeter

    16. The Moon Bridge

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus

      Performer: Jan Karlsson Korp

      Conductor: John Jeter

    17. Night (1945)

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus

      Performer: Jan Karlsson Korp

      Conductor: John Jeter

    18. Resignation (version for mixed chorus a cappella)

      Composer: Florence Beatrice Price

      Ensemble: Malmö Opera Chorus

      Conductor: John Jeter


Florence Price had an abiding love of literature, setting poets affiliated with the Harlem Renaissance as well as Byron and Robert Frost, among others. Her largest choral work is Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, which sets a poem published in 1914 imagining Lincoln surveying the modern world with dismay. It's chorale-like passages and fugal finale, allied to her use of spirituals, gives the cantata a thoughtful, sometimes introspective grandeur. Song of Hope, which uses Price's own text, is an emotionally intense supplication that also draws on spirituals. Charming smaller settings devoted to the natural world, and two sacred numbers, complete the album.