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Chineke! Orchestra. Florence Price. Featuring Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
485 3996 (Decca Classics, CD)
FIRST RELEASE (23 June 2023)
Playing time: 61'09"
Tracks: 8
Booklet pages: 20
℗ 2023 Universal Music Operations Ltd (tracks 1-3 and 8)
2023 Chineke! Records, under exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited (tracks 4-7)
© 2023 Universal Music Operations Ltd
Main country of recording: United Kingdom
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Chineke! Orchestra. Florence Price. Featuring Jeneba Kanneh-Mason published on 11 June 2023
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano (tracks 1-3)
Chineke! Orchestra
Leslie Suganandarajah, conductor (tracks 1-3 and 8)
Roderick Cox, conductor (tracks 4-7)
Florence B Price (1887-1953):
Piano Concerto in One Movement (D minor)
1 Andantino
2 Adagio cantabile
3 Andantino - Allegretto
Symphony No 1 in E minor
4 Allegro ma non troppo
5 Largo, maestoso
6 Juba Dance: Allegro
7 Finale: Presto
8 Ethiopia's Shadow in America - II: His resignation and Faith (Andante)
In the year of Florence Price's seventieth anniversary, the Chineke! Orchestra and Jeneba Kanneh-Mason celebrate the composer's legacy with two of her landmark award-winning pieces which led to her major breakthroughs as a composer.
Recorded 27 November 2022 at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London UK (tracks 1-3 and 8) and 20 September 2022 at Royal Festival Hall, London UK (tracks 4-7).