The modern recording industry has helped many lesser-known composers achieve something that was difficult if not impossible during their lifetimes: a vast and receptive international audience. For some composers, their relative obscurity came with good reason, while others were unwilling victims of geography and the identity of their ...
Swiss label Avenira is committed to the works of composers affected by slavery and has released five CDs of the complete violin concertos by Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, who was born in Guadeloupe in 1745 to a landowner and an African slave. When his family moved to France in 1753, he was trained as a composer, violinist, and ...
Three years have separated this second Naxos volume of Violin Concertos by French composer Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges from the first. In the initial venture the violin part was essayed by the redoubtable Takako Nishizaki, but in this instance Naxos has decided to share the wealth by assigning three of Saint-Georges' concertos to a ...
Recent years have brought the rediscovery of music by Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (various spellings were and are possible), an Afro-Caribbean composer and violinist who came to Paris, achieved moderate celebrity, and became known as Le Mozart noir or the Black Mozart. With the works of the 1770s for which he has been best known, ...
In 2006, the Avenira Foundation renewed through its recorded edition of Chevalier de Saint-George's complete violin concerti some material originally issued back in 1996. The earlier five discs, featuring soloist Miroslav Vilimec and the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra, appeared in conjunction with Avenira's publication of a biography of the ...
The three concertos recorded here represent the first installment in a complete set of the 14 violin concertos of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Saint-Georges, born in Guadeloupe in 1745, was the first African-American musician to flourish in the tradition of European classical music. His family moved to France in 1753, where he made ...
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