- Florence Price
Piano Concerto in One Movement (original version) (1934)
- G Schirmer Inc (World)
ed. Clovis Lark and Nick Greer from the composer's manuscript
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- 18 min
- 26th January 2025, The Assembly Hall, Worthing, United Kingdom
- 30th January 2025, Oslo Concert Hall, Oslo, Norway
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…an infectious pleasure.
Florence Price’s ‘Piano Concerto’ is a knockout in Philadelphia Orchestra’s first performance
Pianist Michelle Cann is exquisite in the Digital Stage concert featuring the original orchestration of Price's stunning work.
There are more than a few astonishing aspects to Florence Price and her Piano Concerto in One Movement, starting with the fact that a Black woman in 1930s America managed to get her work noticed and performed by the classical music establishment.
But the thing that strikes me after listening to the concerto more than a dozen times is how much it says in so short a span. Listeners marvel at the concentrated musical language Beethoven used in some of his late works. But here is Price moving from storm to carefree summer idyll to ecstatic joy — so deftly, with so many other more subtle emotional messages along the way — in well under 20 minutes.
The sense of discovery is such that the work creates the odd sensation of being a slightly different piece every time you hear it.
Discography
Piano Concerto in One Movement (original version)
- LabelArkansas Symphony Orchestra
- ConductorGeoffrey Robson
- EnsembleArkansas Symphony Orchestra
- SoloistKaren Walwyn
- Released9th March 2022
New York Youth Symphony
- LabelNew York Youth Symphony
- ConductorMichael Repper
- EnsembleNew York Youth Symphony
- SoloistMichelle Cann, piano
- Released2022