About This Item
Florence Price reached her musical maturity in Chicago during the 1930s - the decade in which she made a famous debut with the city's orchestra and produced two substantial concertos. The Piano Concerto in One Movement contains some of her most beautiful music set alongside moments of Romantic bravura. Violin Concerto No. 1 seems never to have been performed during her lifetime but is the most expansive of her concertos and is richly orchestrated. The later Violin Concerto No. 2 is a much more compact work, cast in one expressive movement. Dances in the Canebrakes, originally for piano, evokes 19th-century African American life, heard here in William Grant Still's orchestration. Album Tracks 1. Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major~I. Tempo moderato 2. Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major~II. Andante 3. Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major~III. Allegro 4. Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major 5. Piano Concerto in One Movement in D minor~Andantino (Quarter Note = 92) - 6. Piano Concerto in One Movement in D minor~Adagio cantabile (Quarter Note= 76) (bar 220) - 7. Piano Concerto in One Movement in D minor~Andantino (bar 319) - Allegretto 8. Dances in the Canebrakes~No. 1. Nimble Feet 9. Dances in the Canebrakes~No. 2. Tropical Noon 10. Dances in the Canebrakes~No. 3. Silk Hat and Walking Cane
