Price: Concert Overtures Nos. 1 & 2; Songs Of The Oak; The O

The rediscovery of Florence Price’s music has revealed one of the most significant bodies of work by an African American composer in the 20th century. The variety of genres represented on this release place Price’s immense artistic imagination on full display. "Songs of the Oak" is a tour de force of Hollywood-influenced storytelling while "The Oak" offers a more anxious, ultimately tragic portrait. Price’s best-known work is the Suite of Dances–originally for piano it is heard here in the composer’s full, sumptuous orchestration. (Naxos)