Music for International Women’s Day
Celebrating International Women's Day, In Tune's specially curated playlist features eight centuries of music by women composers.
As part of Radio 3’s day-long celebration of women composers, tonight’s mixtape offers a wealth of women composers dating as far back as the medieval period - with a hauntingly beautiful song by the Comtessa de Dia – right up to current times with Jennifer Higdon’s fiery, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Violin Concerto, written for and performed by Hilary Hahn. With works by Bacewicz, Tailleferre, Farrenc, Cecilia McDowall, Gabriella Montero and Rebecca Clarke also on the menu, sit back and enjoy an uninterrupted sequence from over eight centuries of musical talent.
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Oberek no.1
Performer: Midori. Performer: Robert Macdonald.- SONY.
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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.
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Comtessa de Dia
A chantar m'er de so qu'ieu non volria
Singer: Mara Kiek.- HELIOS.
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Germaine Tailleferre
Valse des dépêches (Les Maries de la tour Eiffel)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.- L'eventail De Jeanne / Les Mariés De La Tour Eiffel.
- Chandos.
- 16.
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Rebecca Clarke
Viola Sonata: II. Vivace
Performer: Ellen Nisbeth. Ensemble: Bengt Forsberg.- Let Beauty Awake.
- BIS.
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Cecilia McDowall
Regina Caeli
Choir: Allmänna Sången. Conductor: Maria Goundorina.- BIS.
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Jennifer Higdon
Fly Forward (Violin Concerto, 3rd mvt)
Performer: Hilary Hahn. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vasily Petrenko.- Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Hilary Hahn.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 3.
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Gabriela Montero
Hallelujah (Improvisation on the Theme of the Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah)
Performer: Gabriela Montero.- EMI.
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- Fri 8 Mar 2019 19:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
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