Price & Sowerby: Music for String Quartet Classical Chamber Naxos

Price & Sowerby: Music for String Quartet

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NA 9941

Price & Sowerby: Music for String Quartet

Label Catalogue Number:
8.559941

Release Date: March 2024
Originally recorded in 2023

Genre:
Classical
Chamber

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Naxos’s exploration of the works of Florence Price continues with this album of music for string quartet. Price and Leo Sowerby were contemporaries in the Chicago music community of the 1930s and 1940s, and they are known to have respected each other’s works. Sowerby’s String Quartet in G minor is a world premiere recording. Performed by the Avalon String Quartet – one of America’s leading chamber music ensembles.

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“The performance by the Avalon String Quartet is superb… This is a truly committed performance… Asuperb disc. The Avalon String Quartet is an excellent ensemble that clearly revel in rare American repertoire.”

Colin Clarke – Classicexplorer.com – 1 August 2024

“A fine sampling of Florence Price’s music for string quartet”

Leslie Wright – Musicwebinternational.com – 28 May 2024

“Emotionally searing advocacy bring neglected quartets to life.”

David Kettle – The Strad – May 2024

Performance **** Recording ****

“… All told, this is an excellent release.”

Geoff Brown – BBC Music magazine – May 2024

“…In these recordings, the Avalon String Quartet … formulates a view of the music that leans towards a gentle approach, emphasizing the developing lines and connections rather than highlighting individual climaxes. The result is a lyrical ensemble of voices that can spread out the music’s peculiarities. They unfold the sound of the ensemble in a differentiated manner that does not conceal the structures. In doing so, they breathe new life into the three works with a contemporary approach.” ****

Uwe Krusch – Pizzicato.lu – 22 March 2024

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