Black Classical Composers and Musicians

Black people have composed and performed classical music as long as the genre has existed. King Henry VIII had a Black trumpeter, John Blanke. Beethoven wrote the Kreutzer Sonata for a Black violinist, George Bridgetower (1780-1860). Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) was a leading Afro-French composer, violinist and conductor in Paris. He regularly played music at Versailles with Queen Marie-Antoinette.

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Budget-Price CDs of Works of Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Written by WZick on

From: africlassical.blogspot.com

[Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos 2; Qian Zhou, violin; Toronto Camerata; Kevin Mallon, conductor; Naxos 8.557322 (2003)]

A recent AfriClassical post discussed a budget recording of works of William Grant Still and Ulysses Kay. Today we take a brief look at two budget CDs of violin concertos of Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), who is profiled at AfriClassical.com: (1) Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos; Takako Nishizaki, violin; Cologne Chamber Orchestra; Helmut Müller-Brühl, conductor; Naxos 8.555040 (2000) (67:54). (2) Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos 2; Qian Zhou, violin; Toronto Camerata; Kevin Mallon, conductor; Naxos 8.557322 (2003) (65:30). We did not find any other new recordings of the works of Saint-Georges selling at budget price.

Among the websites which sell each of these recordings for $8.99 US are Amazon.com, ArkivMusic.com, and NaxosDirect.com HBDirect.com lists them at $7.99 US. The lowest prices we found in a quick search of websites on which we have come to rely were at Amazon.com Marketplace Merchants, a variety of third-party stores which sell CDs through the website of Amazon.com We priced only new recordings. Naxos 8.555040 sold for as little as $5.33 US, and Naxos 8.557322 was as low as $4.91 US. We found the CDs selling at Presto Classical, based in the U.K., for £4.99 each.

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