Snapshots for solo piano by Florence Price

Florence Price - Snapshots for solo piano (1952)
I. Lake Mirror (October 13, 1952)
II. Moon behind a Cloud
III. Flame
Composed between 1947 and 1952, Snapshots is one of Price's most expansive piano works, and her most persistently modernist. The first movement, "Lake Mirror" -is the one most obviously indebted to the post-Romantic notions of beauty. Overall its approach is decidedly impressionistic, and some passages are post-tonal. The same aesthetic of impressionistic beauty governs "Moon behind a Cloud," whose alternation of clearly triadic, tonal materials with whole-tone and other post-tonal ones recalls that of Clouds. In the concluding movement, "Flame," dispenses entirely with the first two movements' tranquil and occasionally mysterious beauty. Instead, "Flame" is relentlessly dissonant, fueled by a conspicuously virtuosic urgency.
© John Michael Cooper (2020)
Performer: Kumi Matsuo

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00:09 Lake Mirror
02:53. Moon behind a cloud
05:50 Flame

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Beautiful playing!