Online: Live from London Spring - Soul Of A Woman | Joanna MacGregor

To celebrate International Women’s Day, award-winning pianist Joanna MacGregor curates a rich journey from the Deep South to New York, from Russian poetry to an African paradise. This beautiful solo set includes Florence Price’s romantic music, spiritual arrangements - Margaret Bond’s Troubled Water as well as MacGregor’s explorations of Deep River and Sometimes I feel like a motherless child - as well as Mary Lou Williams’s spikey, witty jazz solos from the Zodiac Suite. Eleanor Alberga bases her epic piano work on Pushkin’s It’s time, my friend, it’s time, weaving a yearning for peace with the play of African dance rhythms. The recital ends with the magnificent Nina Simone: Blackbird, Little Girl Blue, and her take on Good Bait, an astonishing melding of Bach, Liszt and her fierce jazz artistry.

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