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LondonLara Downes
Jezek, Bach, Assad, Bonds, Kariuki, Schubert, Siegmeister, Tin, Khayam, Peterson, Silvestrov
Lara Downes, Piano
HamburgThe Music of Rhiannon Giddens / Silkroad Ensemble
Giddens: Music from Omar and Lucy, Black Stories Real and Imagined
Mazz Swift; Tim-Erik Winzer; Karen Ouzounian; Shawn Conley
HamburgLara Downes, Piano
Sahl, Weill, Ravaei, Burleigh, Price, Huang Ruo, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, del Águila, Bonds, Burhans, Peterson, Gordon
Lara Downes, Piano
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The Philadelphia Orchestra discovers Florence Price once again
Lara Downes and Yannick Nézet-Séguin offer the subscription debut of Price's Piano Concerto in One Movement, followed by the ultimate crowd pleaser, Beethoven's Ninth.
A Brooklyn salon for Clara Schumann's 200th birthday
Downes' playing is soulful, perhaps rather American, which gave Schumann a late-night jazziness. That tendency fit better with selections by Nina Simone and Harlem Renaissance composers Margaret Bonds and Florence Price.