Florence Price (1887-1953) was a pioneering composer, pianist, organist, and educator (Margaret Bonds was one of her students) who, after achieving wide recognition for her Symphony in E minor (with the symphony's premiere in 1933 by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she became the first African-American woman to have an orchestral work performed by a major American orchestra) and her songs (sung most notably, but hardly exclusively, by Marian Anderson), fell into a long period of relative obscurity. Happily, this trend has reversed itself, and her music has, for the last several years, enjoyed a well-deserved revival.

This revival has come about through an interesting amalgam of circumstances, but one of the key events—highlighted in this disc's helpful liner notes—came in 2009, when property renovators discovered manuscript scores in an abandoned house; Price's daughter, who had advocated for her mother's works, had passed away in 1975. The manuscripts were eventually sold to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and then made publicly available. Among the works discovered this way were two violin concertos, both of which have their premiere recordings on this excellent disc. The earlier concerto, dating from 1939, had no known previous performance, but the second concerto (from 1952) was premiered in 1964. It is the gorgeous, single-movement Second Concerto which is the subject of this month's clip.