Symphony no. 3 in C minor

"Editor's choice - November 2021: The string sound in particular is more austere than that on the Philadelphia Orchestra's recent recording of the Third Symphony - but both approaches pay their own dividends in this music, and Price devotees (or anyone who can't wait until the New Year for the rival recording to appear on CD) will want to hear this account from Vienna. The main attraction, though, is The Mississippi River Suite, in which Price's arresting, expansive treatment of spirituals is at once thrilling and profoundly moving".

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"The music of Florence Beatrice Price is undergoing a major re-evaluation and indeed exposure ... Price's story and her triumph against oppression and adversity is an uplifting one and for that alone her musical legacy ... should be appreciated and valued ... Conductor John Jeter was also on the podium for the first Naxos disc of Price Symphonies although in that instance it was the Forth Smith Symphony Orchestra. Certainly the ever excellent ORF Vienna Symphony Orchestra are a notch up on the American ensemble. Jeter is an energetic and committed interpreter ... By definition, not all the music presented in that series [American classics] can be of equal merit. My sense is that viewed objectively, Price's music lies within the second tier, proficient but too rarely inspired and curiously bound by the very conservative tradition that you might expect it to challenge".

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