Florence Price composed her Piano Quintet in the 1930s, and ‘rechecked’ it in 1952, but it wasn’t until a collection of her manuscripts were discovered in an abandoned house in 2009 that it came back into circulation. Since then, it’s been vividly recorded once by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective for Chandos, to great acclaim, while this new recording on Hyperion by the Takács Quartet and pianist Marc-André Hamelin gives it a seal of approval from chamber-music royalty.

The Quintet is a passionate work, in which Price explores European Romanticism and African-American traditions, fusing the two to create constantly engaging, appealing music. The opening Allegro non troppo is full of rhetorical drama from the first violin, which often disrupts the sweep of the music in order to make its point – the Takács’ Edward Dusinberre has fun with this. There’s also plentiful rich piano writing – Price was herself a pianist, after all – including some wonderful rumblings in the low register at the fiery ending. Some critics feel the work is lopsided, with this imposing first movement overshadowing the rest, and while that is...