Video of the Day: Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin perform Florence Price’s ‘Piano Quintet in A minor: III. Juba: Allegro’
Holly Baker
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
The recording can be found on their album 'Dvořák & Price: Piano Quintets'
Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of Florence Price’s ‘Piano Quintet in A minor: III. Juba: Allegro’ by the Takács Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin. As in her symphonies, the slow movement of Price's Piano Quintet is followed by a jazzy 'juba': a dance movement whose syncopated rhythms were accompanied, in the absence of any percussion instruments, by stomping and slapping. The recording can be found on the quartet and Hamelin’s fifth Hyperion album together which couples Antonín Dvořák and Florence Price.