Leah Broad - Quartet – How Four Women Challenged the Musical World
Highlights the lives, loves, and musical careers of four extraordinary women:
Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen.
In their time, these women were celebrities. They composed some of the century’s most popular music and pioneered creative careers; but they became ghostly presences until Leah Broad, via a group biography, resurrected these forgotten voices, recounting lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, and celebrating their musical masterpieces.
Their names
Their names survived only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten. But now here they are:
Ethyl Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette.
Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestra, later celebrated for her modernist experimentation.
Dorothy Howell (b.1898): A prodigy who shot to fame at the 1919 Proms, her reputation as the ‘English Strauss’ never dented her modesty; on retirement, she tended Elgar’s grave alone.
Doreen Carwithen (b.1922): One of Britain’s first woman film composers who scored Elizabeth II’s coronation film, her success hid a 20-year affair with her married composition tutor.
Paperback, published in 203, 472 pages.
€20.00

John Cage - The Works for Organ
This release is the first complete recording of all of Cage’s works for organ, plus the notorious 4’33”.
The organ is ideally suited to Cage’s a..(read more)
Label: Mode / Mode 253
Artist: John Cage
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, Concert.

Erik Satie - 42 Vexations (1893)
Written by eccentric French composer Erik Satie in 1893, the extraordinary score for Vexations is just three lines long, yet a complete performance (840 repetit..(read more)
Label: Sub Rosa / SR294
Artist: Erik Satie
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Classics, Composers, Piano.

Ensemble Klang - Peter Adriaansz: Waves
The Ensemble Klang plays the music of Peter Adriaansz: The work of Peter Adriaansz (1966) is a musical exploration of profound existential questions, questions ..(read more)
Label: Ensemble Klang Records / EKCD1
Artist: Ensemble Klang
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary.
