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Title:
Roots [CD]
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Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
New York : Decca Records, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
General Note:
Title from disc label.
Compact disc.
Randall Goosby presents Roots, a celebration of classical music by Black composers and inspired by Black American culture. This debut album is a homage to the pioneering musicians that paved the way for Goosby's generation of young artists. It features world premiere recordings of pieces by Florence Price, as well as looking to the future, opening with a new work by Xavier Foley.
Performers:
Randall Goosby, violin ; Zhu Wang, piano.
Contents:
Shelter island / Xavier Dubois Foley (5:14) -- Blue/s forms for solo violin / Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (8:02) -- Porgy and Bess. Summertime ; A woman is a sometime thing ; It ain't necessarily so ; Bess you is my woman now / George Gershwin ; transcription by Jascha Heifetz (10:07) -- Suite for violin and piano / William Grant Still (14:17) -- Adoration (3:38) ; Fantasie no. 1 in G minor (4:44) ; Fantasie no. 2 in F# minor (5:28) / Florence Price -- Deep river / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ; arr. Maud Powell (4:33) -- Sonatina in G major / Antonín Dvořák (19:36).
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