Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers: A Reference Guide
At the Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers web site, you will find a variety of information including a comprehensive Black composer discography. It will ease the search for specific recorded works by these composers. In an effort to increase awareness, this web site has being undertaken to unveil and to acknowledge black composers and their creative output within the rich tapestry of classical music.
The 800+ listed works are primarily instrumental, ranging in format from solo to orchestral. This reference guide also includes the recording label and the catalog identification number.
Overall, more than four hundred classical music composers of African heritage have been identified. Recorded offerings, therefore, represent only a small subset of this total creative output.
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"Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers: A Reference Guide" is indeed an important collection of recordings of music by Black classical composers. It has a prominent link on the Composers of African Descent page of my own site, www.AfriClassical.com
My website profiles 52 Black composers, conductors and instrumentalists, and provides over 100 free audio excerpts on the Audio page and on the biographical pages. One person, the Black trumpeter John Blanke, was employed by England's King Henry VIII. A contemporary figure is Girma Yifrashewa, an Ethiopian composer who was born in 1967. His CD "Elilta" is a 2006 recording of his own classical works perfomred on solo piano, by a quartet and by the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. All six tracks are sampled at the site. Black classical music is a global phenomenon. People from over 100 countries have visited the English and French versions of AfriClassical.com in the last three weeks alone. I invite readers to take a look at the website for themselves.
