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Florence Beatrice Price: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, John Jeter
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
The result in this recording is not only inspiring but enjoyable, and not only interesting for our times but of splendid and durable quality. The ORF and Jeter provide lively, well balanced...
Florence Beatrice Price: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, John Jeter
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
The result in this recording is not only inspiring but enjoyable, and not only interesting for our times but of splendid and durable quality. The ORF and Jeter provide lively, well balanced...
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Florence Price was one of the most versatile and accomplished American musicians of her generation whose unstoppable creativity and earliest successes were set against the backdrop of 1930s economic depression. The Third Symphony expresses aspects of Price’s cultural heritage in a symphonic framework. Avoiding direct references to existing folk songs and dances, it creates highly distinctive African spiritual moods and uses the syncopated rhythms of the Juba in its jazzy third movement. This world premiere recording of Ethiopia’s Shadow in America traces the American experience of enslaved Africans, while The Mississippi River suite quotes several famous spirituals, capturing the struggles of Black migration across the United States.
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceNovember 2021
January 2022
The result in this recording is not only inspiring but enjoyable, and not only interesting for our times but of splendid and durable quality. The ORF and Jeter provide lively, well balanced and sympathetically played accounts, with good, clear recorded sound.
November 2021
The string sound in particular is more austere than that on the Philadelphia Orchestra's recent recording of the Third Symphony - but both approaches pay their own dividends in this music, and Price devotees (or anyone who can't wait until the New Year for the rival recording to appear on CD) will want to hear this account from Vienna. The main attraction, though, is The Mississippi River Suite, in which Price's arresting, expansive treatment of spirituals is at once thrilling and profoundly moving.
