Violinist Rachel Barton Pine discusses her latest album on Cedille, "Blues Dialogues: Music by Black Composers."
The Chicago Tribune
December 5, 2018
By Howard Reich
For the top classical recordings of the year, I conversed with John von Rhein, who retired as the newspaper’s classical music critic in July.
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Rachel Barton Pine: “Blues Dialogues” (Cedille). The
definition of classical music keeps expanding, thanks to new generations
of musicians uninterested in the strictures of old. Chicago violinist
Pine underscores the point with “Blues Dialogues,” a revelatory
recording bringing welcome exposure to music of black composers. Most of
this repertoire may be unfamiliar to many listeners, with works by
David Baker, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still and others
rarely performed by a soloist of Pine’s gifts and stature. In her hands,
this music takes on new luminosity, her sensitive readings accompanied
by pianist Matthew Hagle.
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