Programs · Episode
String Quartets, Part 1
Program: Lift Every Voice
Aired: Thursday, February 23, 2023 @ 7:00 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.
Repeats Sunday, February 26 at 5 p.m.
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
7 pm | |
| Joseph 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" | |
| William 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" | |
| William 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" | |
| Jessie Montgomery · Break Away: iii. Smoke PUBLIQuartet Azica 71302 "Strum: Music for Strings" | |
| Frederick C. Tillis · Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12 The Lark Quartet New World Records 80455- 2 "Freedom" | |
| Frederick C. Tillis · Wade in the Water, from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12 The Lark Quartet New World Records 80455- 2 "Freedom" | |
| Frederick C. Tillis · Crucifixian (He Never Said a Mumbelin' Word), from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12 The Lark Quartet New World Records 80455- 2 "Freedom" | |
| Florence Price · String Quartet in G (i. Allegro) Catalyst Quartet Azica 71346 "Uncovered Vol. 2 - Florence Price" | |
| Florence Price · String Quartet in G (ii. Andante moderato) Catalyst Quartet Azica 71346 "Uncovered Vol. 2 - Florence Price" | |