Performers
Three Centuries of Women Composers - Friday
This week, for the first time, every note in Afternoon Concert was written by a woman. In recordings from all of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ orchestras and choirs, we celebrate female creativity with music spanning 300 years and traversing the globe.
In today's final collection –
Large-scale works by Germaine Tailleferre and Gloria Coates, plus Lili Boulanger, Errolyn Wallen, Elisabetta Brusa & Sally Beamish, in recent recordings by the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ orchestras.
Wallen wrote PACE as a choral work, explaining that it is 'best understood as a single human breath; as a single line; as a world’s long, long journey to light'. This recording by members of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra is the first performance of the composer's arrangement for brass ensemble. In 1923 Tailleferre, the only female member of the group of French composers known as Les Six, completed Le Marchand d'oiseaux for the Ballet Suédois, with a scenario, costumes and set designs by the woman artist and poetess Hélène Perdriat. Born in Wisconsin, Gloria Coates has been described as a having a personal soundworld unlike any other in contemporary music. Her work includes 16 symphonies, varied chamber music, and solo, vocal and electronic compositions.
Presented by Hannah French.
Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Sondergard, conductor
Errollyn Wallen: PACE (version for brass ensemble)
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Germaine Tailleferre: Le Marchand d'oiseaux
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales
Perry So, conductor
Gloria Coates: Symphony no. 11,’Philemon und Baucis’
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor
Leokadiya Kashperova: Cello Sonata no. 2
Anastasia Kobekina, cello
Luka Okros, piano
Ruth Crawford-Seeger: Andante for strings
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Philharmonic Orchestra
Stephanie Childress, conductor
Mared Emlyn: Porthor (Whistling Sands)
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales
B. Tommy Andersson, conductor
Elisabetta Brusa: Firelights, op.13
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom, conductor
Sally Beamish: Reckless
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Chloe van Soeterstede, conductor