Happy families
Jenni Murray is joined by director Jude Kelly and lecturer Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason to explore the impact of parents, siblings, partners and children on the careers of women composers.
Jenni Murray continues her celebration of the music of women composers, presenting a fabulous playlist of great music, classic and modern, and exploring the issues women have faced in forging careers as composers.
5. Happy families. Jenni is joined by director Jude Kelly and lecturer Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, mother to internationally acclaimed artists including cellist Sheku and pianist Isata, to explore the role of families in the careers of women composers - from 19th Century figures such as Clara Schumann, Alma Mahler and Amy Beach, whose husbands tried, often successfully, to quash their creativity, through to the present day and asking whether young female composers are given the support they need from their families and communities.
Producer: Graham Rogers
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for Piano Duet in C major, K.19d (3rd mvt)
Performer: Güher Pekinel. Performer: Süher Pekinel.- Mozart : Piano Duets & Sonata for 2 Pianos - Apex.
- Warner Classics International.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E flat major (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Quatuor Ébène.- Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartets Op. 13 in A minor, Op. 80 in F minor:.
- Virgin.
- 8.
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Clara Schumann
Piano Sonata in G minor (2nd mvt)
Performer: Isata Kanneh‐Mason.- Decca.
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Alma Mahler-Werfel
In meines Vaters Garten (5 songs)
Singer: Angelika Kirchschlager. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.- Lieder.
- Sony Classical.
- 7.
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Imogen Holst
On Westhall Hill
Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Alice Farnham.- Discovering Imogen.
- NMC.
- 10.
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Chiquinha Gonzaga
Gaucho - tango brasileiro
Performer: Arnaldo Cohen.- BIS.
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Cécile Chaminade
Concertino, Op.107
Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Orchestra: Residentie Orkest. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Great works for flute and orchestra.
- BIS.
- 007.
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Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Sussex Landscape (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Roderick Cox.- Chineke! Records.
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