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Price & Sowerby: Chamber Music / Avalon String Quartet
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Price & Sowerby: Chamber Music / Avalon String Quartet

$19.99

Details

Composer
Florence Price, Leo Sowerby
Artist
Avalon Quartet
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Mar 22, 2024
Catalog #
8559941
UPC
636943994122

About

"Merit[s] hearty recommendation." -- Textura

Learn more about this recording on the Naxos Classical Spotlight podcast!

Naxos’s exploration of the works of Florence Price continues with this album of music for string quartet. Price and Leo Sowerby were contemporaries in the Chicago music community of the 1930s and 1940s, and they are known to have respected each other’s works. Sowerby’s String Quartet in G minor is a world premiere recording. Performed by the Avalon String Quartet – one of America’s leading chamber music ensembles.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Moderato 10:00
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    10:00
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  2. 2 II. Andante cantabile 05:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante cantabile
    Duration
    05:48
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  3. 3 III. Juba: Allegro 04:01
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Juba: Allegro
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Allegro 05:49
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro
    Duration
    05:49
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  5. 5 I. Languidly; darkly - Fast; with dash 13:45
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Languidly; darkly - Fast; with dash
    Duration
    13:45
    Composer
    Leo Sowerby
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  6. 6 II. Very fast 06:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Very fast
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    Leo Sowerby
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  7. 7 III. Slowly; rhapsodically 05:38
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Slowly; rhapsodically
    Duration
    05:38
    Composer
    Leo Sowerby
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  8. 8 IV. (Recitative:) Broadly - (Fugue:) Moderately fast, yet with broad sweep 05:50
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. (Recitative:) Broadly - (Fugue:) Moderately fast, yet with broad sweep
    Duration
    05:50
    Composer
    Leo Sowerby
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  9. 9 No. 1. Adagio vigoroso (based on Calvary) 03:52
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 1. Adagio vigoroso (based on Calvary)
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  10. 10 No. 2. Andantino (based on Clementine) 02:46
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 2. Andantino (based on Clementine)
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  11. 11 No. 3. Andantino cantabile (based on Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes) 04:02
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 3. Andantino cantabile (based on Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes)
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  12. 12 No. 4. Allegro (based on Shortnin' Bread and other folk songs) 01:15
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 4. Allegro (based on Shortnin' Bread and other folk songs)
    Duration
    01:15
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet
  13. 13 No. 5. Andantino (based on Swing Low, Sweet Chariot) 05:03
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 5. Andantino (based on Swing Low, Sweet Chariot)
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Florence Beatrice Price
    Ensemble
    Avalon String Quartet