Our American Roots: Gershwin, Barber, Walker, Copland
Emmanuel Feldman, cello; Joy Cline Phinney, piano
Delos 3449 (2013)
The composer and pianist George Walker was born in Washington, D.C. June 27, 1922, is featured at AfriClassical.com and has a website at http://georgetwalker.com/ He made history in 1996 as the first African-American Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music.
Peter Nelson-King writes Re-Composing.blogspot.com. On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 he posted: George Walker - a Self-Styled "Great American Composer", in which he writes at length of the composer's works. He notes: "Walker
initially gained fame as a piano prodigy, entering Oberlin Conservatory
at age 14, moving to Curtis Institute of Music and eventually getting
his doctorate from Eastman School of Music."
George
Walker has recorded prolifically; ArkivMusic.com lists 27 CDs under
his name. An impressive number are devoted entirely to his
compositions, as is the case for George Walker: Great American
Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (2012). The composer's most recent
release is his first on the Delos Music label, and was released just
a month ago, on May 28, 2013: Our American Roots: Gershwin,
Barber, Walker, Copland; Delos 3449.
ArkivMusic.com
calls the disc "A varied program of seldom-heard American
cello sonatas and well-crafted arrangements of beloved musical
Americana."
DelosMusic.com
notes
the recording includes "a pair of rarely heard (and recorded)
cello sonatas by Samuel Barber and George Walker." "George
Walker, Sonata
for Cello and piano (1957); Allegro
passionato, Sostenuto, Allegro."
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