NEW ON NAXOS | JUNE 2025
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Release date: 27 Jun 2025
Han Chen © Zhenwei Liu
Fanny Clamagirand © Jean-Baptiste Millot
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Florence Beatrice PRICE (1887–1953) Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 * Piano Concerto in One Movement ** Dances in the Canebrakes Fanny Clamagirand, Violin * Han Chen, Piano ** Malmö Opera Orchestra John Jeter 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.
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Violinist Fanny Clamagirand has won numerous prizes and awards, notably First Prize at the Monte-Carlo Violin Masters (2007) and the International Fritz Kreisler Competition (2005). Her Naxos discography includes recordings of Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concertos Nos. 1-3 (Naxos 8.572037) – ‘colourful, thrilling, and richly compelling performances’ ( Strings Magazine ). • ‘[ Han Chen is] one of the few pianists who handles both gnarly contemporary scores and over-the-top Romantic showpieces with equal authority and style, as his stunning Liszt opera transcriptions and survey of Thomas Adès’s piano works bear out. ( Gramophone on 8.574397)’
About John Jeter, Conductor John Jeter has been music director and conductor of the Fort Smith Symphony since 1997. He is the recipient of the Governor’s Award for “Individual Artist of the State of Arkansas”, the Helen M. Thompson Award presented by the League of American Orchestras, and the Mayor’s Achievement Award for services to the City of Fort Smith. Jeter has
guest conducted numerous orchestras in the US and Europe. His music education programs for schools reach up to 10,000 students annually. He is also involved in a growing number of music and wellness projects, and has a long history as a media guest and host. Jeter received his formal education at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music, and Butler University’s Jordan College of Fine Arts.
Malmö Opera Orchestra
Companion titles – Florence Beatrice Price recordings conducted by John Jeter
DIGITAL PRE-RELEASE SINGLE
Florence Beatrice PRICE Violin Concerto No. 1: Andante * Only available for download and streaming
8.559920
8.559897
8.559827
9.50339 * Release date: 30 May 2025
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