Music for International Women’s Day
Episode m0002zyc, broadcast at Friday 8th March 2019, 7:00pm.
“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.”
Track listing
- 0:13 – Oberek no.1
- Composer Grażyna Bacewicz
- Performer Robert Macdonald
- Performer Midori
- 1:44 – Symphony no.3 in G minor Op.36 (3rd mvt) (track 7, Louise Farrenc: Symphonies 1 and 3)
- Composer Louise Farrenc
- Orchestra NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Johannes Goritzki
- 7:37 – A chantar m'er de so qu'ieu non volria
- Composer Comtessa de Diá
- Singer Mara Kiek
- 13:03 – Valse des dépêches (Les Maries de la tour Eiffel)
- Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
- Composer Germaine Tailleferre
- Conductor Geoffrey Simon
- 15:33 – Viola Sonata: II. Vivace (track 5, Let Beauty Awake)
- Ensemble Bengt Forsberg
- Composer Rebecca Clarke
- Performer Ellen Nisbeth
- 19:15 – Regina Caeli
- Composer Cecilia McDowall
- Choir Allmänna Sången
- Conductor Maria Goundorina
- 21:58 – Fly Forward (Violin Concerto, 3rd mvt) (track 3, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Hilary Hahn)
- Orchestra Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Vasily Petrenko
- Performer Hilary Hahn
- Composer Jennifer Higdon
- 27:06 – Hallelujah (Improvisation on the Theme of the Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah)
- Performer Gabriela Montero