For the first time, double bass soloist James Oesi and pianist Djuwa Mroivili work together. With an extraordinary programme full of well-known and lesser-known classical repertoire.
Centred around the late 19th and early 20th centuries with works by Dvořák, Brahms and Gerswhin, Mroivili and Oesi also place music by classical composers of colour from the same era. From England Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and from the United States Florence Price, William Grant Still and Robert Nathaniel Dett. While they had great influence on their contemporaries, these names are only in recent years becoming better known to a wider audience. Alongside this, Oesi and Mroivili also put on the programme traditional Afro-American works from that era that had great influence on Dvořák and Gershwin, making the context of these works a little clearer for today's audience.
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James Oesi double bass
Djuwa Mroivili piano