Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Chineke! Orchestra – Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement; Symphony No. 1 in E Minor (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Chineke! Orchestra – Florence Price: Piano Concerto in One Movement; Symphony No. 1 in E Minor (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:06 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

In the year of Florence Price’s 70th anniversary, Chineke! Orchestra celebrate the composer’s legacy with two of her landmark award-winning pieces which led to her major breakthroughs as a composer. Recorded with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason who, almost a century on, continues the legacy of women championing Price’s music for present-day audiences with her recording of the work.

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Chineke! Orchestra & Roderick Cox – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30; Sibelius: Symphony No. 2, Op. 43 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Chineke! Orchestra & Roderick Cox – Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30; Sibelius: Symphony No. 2, Op. 43 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:24:37 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

The Chineke! Orchestra return to Signum in a new live orchestral recording from the Royal Festival Hall, London. Drawn from exceptional musicians from across the continent, the orchestra is part of the Chineke! Foundation – a non-profit organization that provides career opportunities to young Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians in the UK and Europe. Their motto is ‘Championing Change and Celebrating Diversity in Classical Music’. The Chineke! Orchestra is the brainchild of Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE, FRAM, who says: “My aim is to create a space where BME musicians can walk on stage and know that they belong, in every sense of the word. If even one BME child feels that their color is getting in the way of their musical ambitions, then I hope to inspire them, give them a platform, and show them that music, of whatever kind, is for all people.” In this live concert recording under conductor Roderick Cox they perform Sibelius’s 2nd Symphony and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.3, featuring multi-award-winning pianist Gerard Aimontche.

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Chineke! Orchestra, Keven John Edusei – Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’ / Sibelius: Finlandia (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Chineke! Orchestra, Keven John Edusei – Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’ / Sibelius: Finlandia (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:28 minutes | 826 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

Signum are proud to present the debut recording from the Chineke! Orchestra, in a new live orchestral recording from The Royal Festival Hall, London.

Drawn from exceptional musicians from across the continent, the orchestra is part of the Chineke! Foundation – a non-profit organisation that provides career opportunities to young Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians in the UK and Europe. Their motto is ‘Championing Change and Celebrating Diversity in Classical Music.

The orchestra is the brainchild of Chi-chi Nwanoku MBE, FRAM, who describes the project’s aim as being “… to create a space where BME musicians can walk on stage and know that they belong, in every sense of the word. If even one BME child feels that their colour is getting in the way of their musical ambitions, then I hope to inspire them, give them a platform, and show them that music, of whatever kind, is for all people.”

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Chineke! Orchestra – Coleridge-Taylor (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Chineke! Orchestra – Coleridge-Taylor (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:23:18 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

The new album by Chineke! Orchestra presents works by the British composer Samuel Coleridge- Taylor
This 2-CD set includes Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto and Romance in G Major, Op. 39, both performed by violinist Elena Urioste, the Ballade in A Minor, and the African Suite. Chineke! Orchestra also presents a world premiere recording, “Sussex Landscape, Op. 27,” composed by the composer’s daughter, Avril Coleridge-Taylor
“Since the day it was founded in 2015, the Chineke! Orchestra has been making waves.” (Financial Times)

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Bob Marley, Chineke! Orchestra – Bob Marley with the Chineke! Orchestra (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Bob Marley, Chineke! Orchestra – Bob Marley with the Chineke! Orchestra (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:34 minutes | 976 MB | Genre: Reggae
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal-Island Records Ltd.

The Chineke! Orchestra was formed in 2015 and on this album reinterprets some of Bob Marley’s best-known songs with contemporary classical orchestration. Now the masterpiece, which contains 10 songs, is finally available on CD and vinyl!

The founder of Chineke!, Chi-Chi Nwanoku said himself about the album, “My goal is to create a space where black and ethnically diverse musicians can go on stage and know that they belong, literally. If even one BME kid feels that their skin color is getting in the way of their musical aspirations, I hope to inspire them, give them a platform, and show them that music, of any kind, is for everyone.”
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Max Richter, Elena Urioste, Chineke! Orchestra – The New Four Seasons – Vivaldi Recomposed (2022) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Max Richter, Elena Urioste, Chineke! Orchestra – The New Four Seasons – Vivaldi Recomposed (2022) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:02 minutes | 789 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

A decade on from the release of his mesmerising Recomposed album, trailblazing composer Max Richter returns to the sound world of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Recorded with violinist Elena Urioste and the musicians of Chineke! Orchestra, The New Four Seasons sees Richter create a new version of his Recomposed score for period instruments – using gut strings and vintage synthesisers to create a “grittier, more punk rock sound”. The new album will be released on 10 June 2022, preceded by taster tracks including ‘Spring 1’ which is out today. Richter and Chineke! will also perform Recomposed together live for the first time on Thursday 16 June in an exclusive UK summer show Live at Chelsea, with tickets on sale now.

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