Walker: Sinfonia No. 5 Visions (Version for Voices & Orchestra) [Live]

George Walker, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, was deeply affected by the massacre of nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. His response was this EP, *Sinfonia No. 5 “Visions”*, a short, powerful work for orchestra and spoken voices. This recording is of the first public performance, in Seattle—sadly a posthumous premiere. Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard and his fine orchestra convey the work’s shock, anger, and pain with unerring skill, the quotations of well-known melodies cleverly woven into an impressive sound collage. Superbly and atmospherically recorded.