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Can music be gendered?

Can you hear 'masculine' and 'feminine' in music? And how have these concepts had an impact on music and how people have heard it over the centuries? With Tom Service.

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Sun 10 Mar 201917:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A minor

    Performer: London Mozart Players. Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Chandos.

  • Grażyna Bacewicz

    Concerto No.1 for Violin and Orchestra - 3rd movement

    Performer: Joanna Kurkowicz. Performer: Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Lukasz Borowicz.
    • Chandos.

  • Vittoria Aleotti

    Hor che la vaga Aurora (Ghirlanda de Madrigali)

    Performer: La Villanella Basel.
    • Ramee.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Overture – The Wreckers

    Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Performer: Alexander Gibson.
    • EMI.

  • Joan Trimble

    Buttermilk Point for 2 pianos

    Performer: Una Hunt. Performer: Roy Holmes.
    • Naxos.

  • Anna Meredith

    Nautilus

    Performer: Anna Meredith.
    • Moshi Moshi Records.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Canticles of Ecstasy - Quia ergo femina mortem instruxit

    Performer: Ensemble for medieval music.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    L' Ondine [The Water sprite] Op.101

    Performer: Peter Jacobs.
    • Helios.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Violin Sonata in A Minor, Op. 7 - Finale

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: John Lenehan.
    • Chandos.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Mass in D - Credo

    Performer: Orchestra and Chorus of the Plymouth Music series. Performer: Philip Brunelle.
    • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 41 (K.551) in C major "Jupiter" - 1st movement

    Performer: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Charles Mackerras.
    • Linn.

  • Carl Davis

    Pride and Prejudice

    Performer: Melvyn Tan. Performer: Studio Orchestra. Performer: Carl Davis.
    • EMI.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Marche hongroise (Rakoczy march) – Le damnation de Faust

    Performer: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Leonard Slatkin.
    • RCA.

  • Laura Bowler

    Femininity

    Performer: Manchester Camerata.
    • Private recording.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Prelude to Act 1 – La Traviata

    Performer: La Scala Philharmonic. Performer: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Richard Strauss

    Hab' mir's gelobt, ihn lieb ... – Der Rosenkavalier

    Performer: Dianna Damrau. Performer: Adrianne Pieczonka. Performer: Elīna Garanča. Performer: Staatskapelle Dresden. Performer: Fabio Luisi.
    • DG.

Broadcast

  • Sun 10 Mar 201917:00
    BBC Radio 3

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