During the decade of the 1930s, Florence Price produced two substantial concertos: the romantic Piano Concerto in One Movement and her first violin concerto – an expansive and richly orchestrated work that was apparently never performed during her lifetime. The later Violin Concerto No. 2 was completed just a few months before her death. These three works represent her entire output in the concerto genre, bookending her compositional life. The Second Violin Concerto is much more compact, written in a single movement. Both violin concertos and the original orchestration of the piano concerto were among the scores that had been lost for decades after being abandoned in a house that was once Price’s summer home. They were rediscovered in 2009 and have since regained their rightful place in the repertoire.

This new release is rounded out with Dances in the Canebrakes – originally for solo piano but heard here in the version orchestrated by William Grant Still.

The soloist for both violin concertos is Fanny Clamagirand, a First Prize winner at both the 2007 Monte-Carlo Violin Masters and the 2005 International Fritz Kreisler Competition. Performing the Piano Concerto is Han Chen, whom Gramophone declared to be “one of the few pianists who handles both gnarly contemporary scores and over-the-top Romantic showpieces with equal authority and style.” John Jeter conducts the Malmö Opera Orchestra.