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Ella Jarman-Pinto, Nazan Fikret and Rebecca Cohen, Madeleine Mitchell

Music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians including a world premiere by Ella Jarman-Pinto for International Women's Day.

On International Women's Day featuring the world premiere live performance of a new work commissioned by BBC Radio 3 by Ella Jarman-Pinto. Looking at how the pandemic has affected women, and particularly mothers, Plango: A Cure Lament is performed by soprano, Nazan Fikret, and pianist, Rebecca Cohen.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Madeleine Dring

    Festival Scherzo

    Performer: Martin Roscoe. Ensemble: Guildhall String Ensemble. Conductor: Robert Salter.
    • HYPERION.
  • Muriel Herbert

    Violets

    Performer: Nazan Fikret. Performer: Rebecca Cohen.
  • Hélène de Montgeroult

    Violin Sonata in A minor Op.2 no.3 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sophie Rosa. Performer: Ian Buckle.
    • Montgeroult, Viotti, Weber & Mendelssohn: Violin Sonatas.
    • Rubicon.
    • 5.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Columba aspexit

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Performer: Doreen Muskett. Choir: Gothic Voices. Director: Christopher Page.
    • HYPERION.
  • Louise Farrenc

    Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • Louise Farrenc: Symphonies 1 and 3.
    • CPO.
    • 7.
  • Ella Jarman-Pinto

    Song for My Children (A Te)

    Performer: Nazan Fikret. Performer: Rebecca Cohen.
  • Ella Jarman-Pinto

    Plango: A Cure Lament

    Performer: Nazan Fikret. Performer: Rebecca Cohen.
  • Doreen Carwithen

    Men of Sherwood Forest (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • Dutton.
  • Elena Kats‐Chernin

    Eliza's Aria (Wild Swans)

    Singer: Jane Sheldon. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ola Rudner.
    • Elena Kats-Chernin - Wild Swans.
    • ABC.
    • 2.
  • Florence Price

    Suite No 1 (extract)

    Performer: Ben Morris.
  • Trish Clowes

    Little Tune

    Performer: Trish Clowes. Performer: Chris Montague.
    • and in the night-time she is there.
    • BASHO RECORDS.
    • 10.
  • Elizabeth Maconchy

    Proud Thames

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Maconchy: Serenata Concertante; Symphony for Double String Orchestra.
    • Lyrita.
    • 1.
  • Amy Woodforde-Finden

    Kashmiri Song (4 Indian Love Lyrics)

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • In Praise of Woman.
    • HELIOS.
    • 017.
  • Judith Weir

    Atlantic Drift

    Performer: Madeleine Mitchell. Performer: Cerys Jones.
    • Violin Muse.
    • Divine Art.
    • 5.
  • Grace Williams

    Violin Sonata: I. Allegro molto ritmico

    Performer: Madeleine Mitchell. Performer: Konstantin Lapshin.
    • Grace Williams: Chamber Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Courante and Double from Suite in D minor (Pièces de clavecin, 1707)

    Performer: Karen Flint.
    • Jacquet de la Guerre: Complete Works for Harpsichord.
    • Plectra.
    • 2.
  • Joan Trimble

    Suite for strings; 1st mvt

    Orchestra: Irish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Fionnuala Hunt.
    • Black Box.
  • Liza Lehmann

    If no one ever marries me (The Daisy Chain)

    Performer: Steuart Bedford. Singer: Janice Watson.
    • Collins.

Broadcast

  • Mon 8 Mar 202117:00

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