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Hildegard von Bingen's Symphonia

To mark International Women's Day Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores music by female composers spanning nine centuries. The Choral Classic is Hildegard von Bingen's Symphonia.

Marking International Women's Day, Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores choral music by female composers spanning nine centuries - from Hildegard von Bingen's Symphonia, today's Choral Classic, to a live performance from the all-female 'punk choir' Gaggle. Sara is also joined in studio by the girls' choir of St Catharine's College, Cambridge and guest soloist, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, to give the world premiere of a new commission by recent Cambridge graduate Rhiannon Randle.

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1 hour, 30 minutes

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Sun 8 Mar 201516:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ethel Smyth

    March of the women vers. for orchestra

    Performer: Philip Brunelle. Performer: Eiddwen Harrhy. Performer: Plymouth Festival Chorus. Performer: Plymouth Festival Orchestra.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • VC7590222.

  • Deborah Coughlin

    Army Of Birds

    Composer: Simon Dempsey. Performer: Dana Jade. Performer: Gaggle.

  • Deborah Coughlin

    Claws

    Conductor: Deborah Coughlin. Performer: Gaggle.

  • Deborah Coughlin

    Leave the City

    Conductor: Deborah Coughlin. Performer: Gaggle.

  • Clara Schumann

    3 Part-songs for chorus (extract)

    Choir: Renner Male Ensemble. Conductor: Bernd Engelbrecht.

    Brilliant Classics: 94383

    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 94383.

  • Alissa Firsova

    Stabat Mater

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Performer: The Sixteen.
    • CORO.
    • COR16127.

  • Anonymous

    Chant, from Oxyrhyncchus Papyrii

    Performer: Edward Wickham. Performer: St Catharine's College Cambridge Girls' Choir.

  • Stevie Wishart

    Two Motets: Alleluia Lullaby; Te Deum Laudamus

    Performer: Edward Wickham. Performer: St Catharine's College Cambridge Girls' Choir.

  • Rhiannon Randle

    Like a Singing Bird

    Performer: Edward Wickham. Performer: St Catharine's College Cambridge Girls' Choir.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Columba aspexit per cancellos - sequence

    Performer: Christopher Page. Performer: Gothic Voices.
    • HYPERION.
    • CDS 44251/3.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O ecclesia oculi tui - sequence

    Performer: Christopher Page. Performer: Gothic Voices.
    • HYPERION.
    • CDS 44251/3.

  • Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Vespro della beate Vergine for 8 voices

    Performer: Candace Smith. Performer: Capella Artemisia.

  • Deborah Coughlin

    Make Love, not War

    Performer: Deborah Coughlin. Performer: Gaggle.

Broadcast

  • Sun 8 Mar 201516:00
    BBC Radio 3

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