Composer Jessie Montgomery wrote Transfigure to Grace after reflecting on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to America. Riccardo Muti conducts its world premiere, plus music by Rachmaninoff and Wagner.
Muti, Montgomery & Rachmaninoff
Jessie Montgomery (Photo: Jiyang Chen)
Playlist
Richard Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
Jessie Montgomery: Transfigure to Grace
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Solemn Prelude
