Samantha Ege is a British pianist currently completing a PhD, which focusses on Florence Price (1887-1953), the first African-American female composer to have a work played by a major orchestra – her Symphony in E Minor by the Chicago Symphony in 1933. Four Women features works by four impeccably selected 20th-century female composers, opening with Price’s Piano Sonata in A Minor (1932), a stirring work that melds a melodic Romanticism with spirituals in a manner reminiscent of her contemporary, Charles Ives.

Long-overdue recognition for Price has gathered momentum in recent years, and this collection concludes with Troubled Water (1967) by her dear friend Margaret Bonds (1913-1972), a deeply...