There was back in April a release of the newly discovered original orchestration of her Piano Concerto. Previous live performances used a reconstruction of the orchestration.
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/works-by-price-coleman-montgomery/hnum/10887279
The Piano Concerto will possibly also be recorded by Naxos. Perhaps it's even a candidate for Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series? ;)
... and already released on the Albany label?
I thought the Albany release was with orchestration by someone else,the original full score not having come to light at the time that recording was made. Please correct me if I am wrong.
That's correct Gareth. Here's the info. from my discography:
Concerto [in d] in One Movement (1934; 2010 reconstruction of the score (then thought to be lost) by Trevor Weston from the two- and three-piano versions by the composer)
Albany 1295: Karen Walwyn/New Black Music Repertory Ens./Leslie Dunner
Thank you very much. That makes the new recording of particular interest - at least, to me.
Ah, right. Thanks for clarifying that, Gareth.
Decca announced another recording of her Piano Concerto and yet another version of the first Symphony.
The Chineke! Orchestra with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/florence-price/hnum/11475994
From a review I saw on www.classicalmusicdaily.com, I believe the Chineke! Orchestra CD also uses the Trevor Weston reconstruction, but am unable to confirm that because Decca doesn't seem to have posted a photo of the inlay card or mentioned it in their promotional blurb.
Now that Nézet-Séguin's Price project appears to have moved from DG to Decca with the second installment, I wonder if they'll take a pass on the piano concerto, there being such a new one already in Decca's catalog. Naxos, please take note!
Scott
Surely we have enough Price now??
Quote from: Mark Thomas on Monday 10 July 2023, 15:05Surely we have enough Price now??
Until the fad subsides, Mark, these releases are the Price we all must pay.
Ouch!
The Chineke! CD appears to follow the rediscovered orig. score, not the Weston reconstruction. The orig. score is at https://issuu.com/scoresondemand/docs/piano_concerto_58911. A quick way to identify the versions is to check m.236; in the Weston, the oboe re-enters with piano and orchestra whereas in the orig. score there is just oboe and piano.
Thanks for that information.
I actually find Price's PC one of her better pieces. OK, it's a mixture of Dvorak, Gershwin and Juba music, but - in the Chineke! recording - it's less pretentious than her longer works and more fun. And it's less than 18 minutes long.