Filmed in 2021 at LSO St Lukes, the London Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Rebecca Gilliver gives a heartfelt performance of Florence Price’s Adoration, with pianist Sophia Rahman.

Adoration was written in 1951 by Price (1887-1953), originally as a work for church organ and has since been arranged for different instruments. It was written near the end of the composer’s life, which had largely been defined by racial and gender barriers throughout her career. ’I have two handicaps,’ she told Serge Koussevitzky in a 1943 letter, ’those of sex and race.’  She often honoured her own history by incorporating African-American spirituals into her music, which is evident in Adoration.

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