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A selection of music for International Women's Day.
Including

0915 Your ideas for companion pieces on the Essential Classics playlist.

1130 Slow Moment - time to take a break for a moment's musical reflection.

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Mon 8 Mar 202109:00
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Music Played

  • Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria

    Telestri Regina delle Amazzoni (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Batzdorfer Hofkapelle. Director: Daniel Deuter.
    • Talestri - Commedia per Musica.
    • KammerTon.
    • 1-3.

  • Florence Price

    The Deserted garden

    Performer: Laura Kobayashi. Performer: Susan Gray.
    • Feminissimo! Women Playing Music by Women.
    • Albany.
    • 6.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Nonet in E flat major, Op.38 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.
    • DIVOX.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Cello Concerto (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Kristina Blaumane. Orchestra: Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras. Conductor: Maxim Rysanov.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Amanda Röntgen-Maier

    Violin sonata in B minor (1st movt)

    Performer: Cecilia Zilliacus. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • Amanda Maier, Volume 2; Violin sonata, 9 Pieces for violin and piano, 4 Songs.
    • db Productions.
    • 1.

  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Re-invention No.1 [After J S Bach Invention no.8]

    Performer: Genevieve Lacey. Ensemble: Flinders Quartet.
    • Reinventions.
    • ABC Classics.
    • 1.

  • Alice Mary Smith

    Symphony in A minor (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Chandos.

  • Madeleine Dring

    Mazurka (3 Dances)

    Performer: Ro Hancock-Child.
    • Micropress Music.

  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Concertino for harp and orchestra

    Performer: Gillian Benet. Orchestra: Women's Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • KOCH.

  • Galina Grigorjeva

    In Paradisum

    Choir: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Ondine.

  • Barbara

    Une Petite Cantate

    Singer: Barbara.
    • CD details tbc.

  • Gabriela Montero

    Mi Venezuela llora

    Performer: Gabriela Montero.
    • Solatino.
    • EMI.
    • 027.

  • Imogen Holst

    Phantasy Quartet

    Performer: Simon Hewitt Jones. Performer: David Worswick. Performer: Tom Hankey. Performer: Oliver Coates.
    • Court Lane Music.

  • Barbara Strozzi

    Che Si Puo Fare Op.8 no.6

    Singer: Simone Kermes. Ensemble: La magnifica comunità. Director: Enrico Casazza.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Plan & Elevation (The Beech Tree)

    Ensemble: Attacca Quartet.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Kaija Saariaho

    Asteroid 4179: Toutatis

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Warner.

  • Meredith Monk

    Travellers 1, 2, 3

    Singer: Robert Een. Singer: Meredith Monk. Singer: Andrea Goodman. Singer: Naaz Hosseini. Singer: Nicky Paraiso. Singer: Ching Gonzalez.
    • ECM.

  • Anne Dudley

    Jeeves and Wooster (Theme)

    Ensemble: Dover Street Jazzomaniacs.
    • The World of Jeeves and Wooster.
    • EMI.
    • 001.

  • Anna Meredith

    Bubble Gun

    Music Arranger: Jack Ross. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.
    • Decca.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Spiritus Sanctus vivificans vita

    Singer: Anna Sandström. Choir: Armonico Consort. Director: Christopher Monks.
    • Naked Byrd two: Armonico Consort.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 6.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Quam Mirabilis Est

    Ensemble: Taracea.
    • Alpha.

  • Dorothy Howell

    Piano Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Danny Driver. Orchestra: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
    • The Romantic Piano Concerto 70 - Beach, Chaminade & Howell.
    • Hyperion.
    • 001.

  • Hilary Kleinig

    Great White Bird

    Ensemble: Zephyr Quartet.
    • Navona Records.

  • Mel Bonis

    Suite en Trio Op.59 (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Trio Empreinte.
    • Bonis, Boulanger, Finzi & Gotkovsky: Crossing the Line.
    • Klarthe.
    • 106.

  • Jocelyn Pook

    DESH (Hallelujah)

    Singer: Jeremy Schonfield. Singer: Melanie Pappenheim. Performer: Tanja Tzarovska. Performer: Jocelyn Pook. Performer: Sophie Harris. Orchestra: Bulgarian Orchestra.
    • Pook Music.

  • Jane Antonia Cornish

    Scattered Light

    Performer: Hamilton Berry.

  • Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    String Quartet no.2 in B flat major (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet. Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet.
    • Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen - The Six String Quartets.
    • CALA.
    • 12.

  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Trio Sonata no.4 in G minor

    Ensemble: Musica Fiorita. Director: Daniela Dolci.
    • PAN CLASSICS.

  • Ethel Smyth

    The Prisoner Understands His Own Immortality (The Prison)

    Singer: Sarah Brailey. Singer: Dashon Burton. Ensemble: Experiential Orchestra and Chorus. Conductor: James Blachly.
    • Chandos.

Broadcast

  • Mon 8 Mar 202109:00
    BBC Radio 3