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Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femmes (2022)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femmes (2022)

Marie-Catherine Girod - Regards de femmes (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 211 Mb | Total time: 79:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Mirare | # MIR574 | Recorded: 2020

Was the golden age of the piano that of a defeat for female composers? If they occupied an important place in ancient and baroque music, the bourgeois society which emerges from the Enlightenment limits their access to the conservatory and to the quarry. Marie-Catherine Girod explores this key moment and reveals to us the talent of the resistance fighters of the classical and romantic periods, and of the first modernism, those whose history has retained the name, such as Fanny Mendelssohn or Clara Schumann, or of whom she is rediscovering it today.

James Blachly, Experiential Orchestra & Chorus - Ethel Smyth: The Prison (2020)

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James Blachly, Experiential Orchestra & Chorus - Ethel Smyth: The Prison (2020)

James Blachly, Experiential Orchestra & Chorus - Ethel Smyth: The Prison (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 298 Mb | Total time: 64:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | CHSA 5279 | Recorded: 2019

August 18th marks the 100th anniversary of th e 19th Constitutional Amendment, granting women in the US the right to vote. A fitting time then for our release of the World Premier Recording of Ethel Smyths late masterpiece The Prison. Smyth left home at nineteen to study composition in Leipzig. In the company of Clara Schumann and her teacher Heinrich von Herzogenberg, she met and won the admiration of composers such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvoák, and Grieg. Smyth was the first woman to have an opera performed at the Met, in 1903.

Tasmin Little, John Lenehan - Clara Schumann, Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach (2019)

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Tasmin Little, John Lenehan - Clara Schumann, Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach (2019)

Tasmin Little, John Lenehan - Clara Schumann, Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 71:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos ‎| CHAN20030 | Recorded: 2018

The renowned violinist Tasmin Little returns to Chandos with a line-up of three women composers whose lives share some features but also significant differences that illustrate the complex lives of female musicians. Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth and Amy Beach all came from families that encouraged their musical interests but balked, in varying degrees, at professional training and engagement. All three composers draw on the influence of Robert Schumann and Brahms; Beach and Smyth in particular were fond of metrical and motivic manipulation. Tasmin Little plays this music close to her heart with her usual warmth and dexterity.

Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Ethel Smyth: Mass in D; Overture to 'The Wreckers' (2019)

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Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Ethel Smyth: Mass in D; Overture to 'The Wreckers' (2019)

Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - Ethel Smyth: Mass in D; Overture to 'The Wreckers' (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 321 Mb | Total time: 70:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos ‎| CHSA 5240 | Recorded: 2019

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Oramo with an exceptional quartet of soloists give a vivid and heartfelt interpretation of Smyth’s earliest large-scale choral work. Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth tended to be marginalized as a ‘woman composer’, as though her work could not be accepted as mainstream, yet when she produced more delicate compositions, they were criticized for not measuring up to the standard of her male competitors.

Odaline de la Martinez, Lontano Ensemble - Ethel Smyth: The Boatswain's Mate (2018)

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Odaline de la Martinez, Lontano Ensemble - Ethel Smyth: The Boatswain's Mate (2018)

Odaline de la Martinez, Lontano Ensemble - Ethel Smyth: The Boatswain's Mate (2018)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 748 Mb | Total time: 47:12+73:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Retrospect Opera | RO001 | Recorded: 2015-2016

Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), Britain's greatest female composer, wrote six operas. The Boatswain's Mate, composed in Egypt in 1913-14, and first performed in 1916, was far and away the most popular of them, and between the wars, was often performed. It is a wonderfully tuneful and funny work, the most successful of all the British operas of the period, using folk music to evoke English rural life. Smyth was a close friend of Emmeline Pankhurst. She had been strongly involved with the suffragette movement immediately before she composed The Boatswain's Mate, and it's generally considered her most feminist opera (the overture quotes 'The March of the Women', her famous suffragette song). Smyth wrote her own libretto, adapting a story and play by W. W. Jacobs.