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String Quartets, Part 1

Program: Lift Every Voice
Aired: Saturday, February 24, 2024 @ 4:00 pm
Hosted by Joshua Hood

Josh dives into a treasure trove of string quartets written by Black composers. We start in the eighteenth century with a work by Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint Georges. Then we move to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to hear quartets by Florence Price, Frederick Tillis, and others.

Featured on this Episode:

Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint Georges: String Quartet No. 4 in F, Op. 1

William Grant Still: Lyric Quartet, “Musical Portraits of Three Friends”
 ii. “The Quiet One”
 iii. “The Jovial One”

Frederick Tillis: Spiritual Fantasy No. 12 
 i. “Nobody knows the trouble I see”
 ii. “Wade in the Water”
 iii. “Crucifixion (He never said a mumblin’ word”)

Florence Price: String Quartet in G, “Unfinished”

Playlist

4 pm

4:00 pmLift Every Voice 2023 No. 4 "String Quartets"
4:01 pmJoseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint- · Concertante Quartet No. 4 in F
Arabella String Quartet
Julie Eskar, Sarita Kwok, violins; Ettore Causa, viola; Alexandre Lecarme, cello
Naxos 857436 0 "Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Six Concertante Quartets"
4:09 pmWilliam Grant Still · Lyric Quartet (ii. The Quiet One)
Oregon String Quartet
Kathryn Lucktenberg, Fritz Gearhart, violins; Leslie Straka, viola; Steve Pologe, cello
Koch International 7546 "William Grant Still - Oregon String Quartet"
4:14 pmWilliam Grant Still · Lyric Quartet (iii. The Jovial One)
Oregon String Quartet
Kathryn Lucktenberg, Fritz Gearhart, violins; Leslie Straka, viola; Steve Pologe, cello
Koch International 7546 "William Grant Still - Oregon String Quartet"
4:18 pmJessie Montgomery · Break Away: iii. Smoke
PUBLIQuartet
Azica 71302 "Strum: Music for Strings"
4:23 pmFrederick C. Tillis · Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12
The Lark Quartet
New World Records 80455- 2 "Freedom"
4:30 pmFrederick C. Tillis · Wade in the Water, from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12
The Lark Quartet
New World Records 80455- 2 "Freedom"
4:34 pmFrederick C. Tillis · Crucifixian (He Never Said a Mumbelin' Word), from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12
The Lark Quartet
New World Records 80455- 2 "Freedom"
4:41 pmFlorence Price · String Quartet in G (i. Allegro)
The Catalyst Quartet
Azica 71346 "Uncovered Vol. 2 - Florence Price"
4:50 pmFlorence Price · String Quartet in G (ii. Andante moderato)
The Catalyst Quartet
Azica 71346 "Uncovered Vol. 2 - Florence Price"
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