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Blues Dialogues

Music by Black Composers

Rachel Barton Pine (violin)

Blues Dialogues

Awards:

It is a diverse and enjoyable programme.

Blues Dialogues

Music by Black Composers

Rachel Barton Pine (violin)

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Awards:

It is a diverse and enjoyable programme.

About

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, 'an exciting, boundary-defying performer' (Washington Post) known for her 'bravura technique and soulful musicianship' (New York Times), headlines a groundbreaking album of blues-influenced classical works for violin and violin and piano by 20th and 21st century composers of African descent. World-premiere recordings include Noel Da Costa’s A Set of Dance Tunes for Solo Violin, based on American fiddle tunes; Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Filter, which conjures the sounds of electronic dance music and psychedelic guitar; Errollyn Wallen’s Woogie Boogie, a humorous and inventive re-imaging of the boogie-woogie blues dance; and Billy Childs’s Incident on Larpenteur Avenue, a single-movement violin sonata / tone poem written as a response to a fatal shooting by police. Another premiere is Wendall Logan’s violin and piano arrangement of Duke Ellington’s 1935 composition, In a Sentimental Mood.

Contents and tracklist

I. Plain Blue / s
Track length1:21
II. Just Blue / s
Track length2:59
III. Jettin' Blue / s
Track length2:33
I. African Dancer
Track length4:34
II. Mother and Child
Track length6:10
III. Gamin
Track length2:11
No. 1, Walk Around "Brudder Bones"
Track length3:54
No. 2, Neumedia
Track length2:56
No. 3, Little Diamond - Bird on the Wing Jigs
Track length1:58
No. 4, New Orleans Clog
Track length0:58
No. 5, "New Orleans" Clog Blues
Track length3:22
I. Blues Feeling
Track length3:24
II. Expressive
Track length2:45
III. Fast and Funky
Track length1:13
IV. Moderately Fast
Track length2:54

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    February 2019
    Editor's Choice

4th January 2019

It is a diverse and enjoyable programme.

February 2019

What a fascinating, beautiful disc… The disc’s title is valid: these really are ‘dialogues’ in the most creative and stimulating sense…Need it be said that Pine plays everything here gloriously… Listen to how unaffectedly she outlines the melody of Still’s central slow movement…In passages of virtuoso display, she’s as sure-footed and as agile as an acrobat.

April 2019

Well supported by Matthew Hagle’s fine pianism, Pine’s characterful playing makes for exciting listening
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